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 President Donald Ramotar has called on the parliamentary opposition to pass the anti-money laundering legislation without conditions following Thursday’s revelation that Guyana has been further blacklisted by the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force.  Below is his statement issued by the Government Information Agency in its entirety. We have just received news that at the 39th Meeting of the CFATF held between May ...

Several of Hotel Tower workers have opted to take severance pay while the others have been promised their outstanding wages and salaries ahead of their return to work next Monday, President of the Clerical and Commercial Workers Union (CCWU), Sherwood Clarke said Thursday night. He said the union and a principal director, Salim Juman Azeez, earlier Thursday agreed to ink ...

Co-founder of the Working Peoples Alliance, Eusi Kwayana on Thursday conceded that anyone could have committed acts without the knowledge of the leadership of Guyana’s two major political parties. Testifying under oath at the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry for a third straight day, the 89-year old veteran Guyanese politician, however, insisted that the then Peoples National Congress (PNC) administration ...

The government and opposition remain firmly entrenched in their respective positions on the anti-money laundering legislation as a regional financial body recommends further sanctions against the country for its non-passage of the legislation a year after it was initially due. The Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) in a statement released by the government on Thursday noted Guyana’s failure to ...

The United States (US) on Thursday agreed to help Guyana beef up the operations of juvenile detention facilities, at a time when there are allegations of unsavoury practices by inmates and a number of persons associated with the New Opportunity Corps (NOC). Speaking at the signing of a Letter of Agreement for the US’ provision of US$850,000, Foreign Affairs Minister, ...

A 53-year old United States citizen , who allegedly attempted to smuggle a huge quantity of cocaine in frozen fish to New York,  on Thursday pleaded not guilty and was remanded to prison. She is 53-year old Joyce De Cunha of New York will next appear at the Providence Magistrates’ Court on June 2. Appearing before Chief Magistrate, Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, ...

The United States (US) is preparing to lay the groundwork to establish an office of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) by local vetting anti-drug agents to minimize the chances of they violating integrity of shared information and strategies. American Ambassador to Guyana, Brent Hardt announced on Thursday that some of the US$850,000in a successor agreement on Narcotics and Law Enforcement ...

The Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) has referred Guyana to its parent body and recommended further sanctions against the country for its failure to reach a deadline for the implementation of anti-money laundering legislation.  Below is the CFATF statement. The Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) is an organisation of twenty-seven jurisdictions of the Caribbean Basin Region, which have ...

An anti-narcotics policeman, who allegedly facilitated the attempted smuggling of a quantity of cocaine and marijuana to Barbados, was Wednesday arraigned on a drugs charge. Constable Ian Johnson,24, was arraigned at the Sparendaam Court before Magistrate Sueanna Lovell for possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking. Johnson pleaded not guilty and he was remanded to prison until June 13 ...

One of the Guyanese, seriously injured in a vehicular accident in neighbouring Suriname earlier this week, was flown home on Wednesday and admitted to a city hospital, sources said. Vanessa Foo was said to be in serious condition, having sustained head injuries and a broken thigh bone. She was accompanied to the Georgetown Public Hospital by her husband, Kevin Foo, ...