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Guyana is dispatching a team to the United States (US) to participate in a hemispheric review of the South American country’s failure to tighten legislation to counter money laundering and terrorism financing. The targeted review by the Americas Regional Review Group (ARRG) is in keeping with the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) recommendation at its last plenary meeting held in ...

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) on Tuesday complained bitterly that contractors and other persons involved in of civil works were repeatedly disrupting telephony and data services across the country, sometimes inadvertently, or because they refuse to call before they commence excavations.  The company said thousands of customers, including other key services, were Tuesday disrupted after B.K. International Inc. allegedly ...

The non-governmental pressure group, Blue CAPS, has signaled to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) its intention to observe either local or general elections and called for the re-establishment of the Media Monitoring Unit (MMU). The organisation, also at a meeting with top officials of GECOM on Monday, September 15, said it was “convinced” that the elections management agency was geared ...

A Constable was Tuesday convicted for shooting at a man in Globe Yard, Waterloo Street, Georgetown with the aim of injuring him as well as illegal possession of ammunition. Twenty-eight year old Ocquana Dawson, who was attached to Tactical Services Unit (TSU), was sentenced to 48 months imprisonment for discharging the firearm at Phillip “Skinny” Small on February 18, 2013. ...

Several persons, who turned up at the Georgetown City Hall to attend an inter-faith service and public meeting, were Tuesday morning prevented froim entering the compound. They included former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Colonel London and other functionaries and supporters of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU). Senior City Constabulary Assistant Superintendent Gordon Langevine declined to say why the gates ...

Opposition Leader David Granger on Tuesday said now that President Donald Ramotar has refused to name a date for Local Government Elections (LGE), the opposition would be planning a series of “concerted” actions including protests. But Granger assured that Guyanese should not be fearful of protests because advocates of the long-overdue polls would not be engaging in any illegal activity. ...

The once thickly vegetated- almost forested Le Repentir Cemetery- is returning to the days when it was easy to find land for a grave or tomb or locate the place where a loved one was buried. Large areas of Guyana’s largest cemetery have been cleared of trees and other types of vegetation under a massive clean-up programme being funded by ...

Government is spending as much as GUY$25,000 on fuel for each of several privately-owned buses that have been deployed to provide free transportation to commuters and force minibus operators to negotiate a fare structure.  That easily works out to an estimated GUY$250,000 per day for the 10 buses that have been put on several routes. “The public transportation system has ...

A taxi driver was Monday arraigned in a charge of robbery under arms and refused bail. Twenty-nine year old Jesse Knights, a driver at GEM’s Taxi Service, pleaded not guilty to the offence. Knights of Independence Boulevard (Punt Trench Dam) is accused of, being in the company of another person who was armed with a gun, robbing Desiree Fredericks of ...

General Secretary of the governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on Monday denied that he has been ratcheting up concerns about the voters list as a way of attacking the Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield. “We welcome Mr. Lowenfield’s assumption to office…We have no interest in attacking anyone personally at GECOM. We attack issues. We deal with the issues and not ...