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Government and A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) appeared set to agree to send that opposition party’s amendments to the Anti Money Laundering and Countering of Financing Terrorism (AML/CFT) Act to regional and international watchdogs on financial crimes to ascertain whether they are workable. However, President Donald Ramotar has not succeeded in persuading APNU to support the government-sponsored amendments only ...

Regional and international pressure on Tuesday mounted on Guyana’s opposition-controlled parliament to approve much needed amendments to the Anti Money Laundering and Countering of Financing Terrorism (AML/CFT) Act. Coming on the heels of Western diplomats warning that Guyana could face “serious consequences” if the changes are not passed, the Organisation of American States (OAS) and the 15-nation Caribbean Community (Caricom) ...

A Patient Care Assistant was Monday charged with assaulting a social worker who had gone to investigate a report that she had injected her children with insulin. Twenty-four year old Gail De Jonge pleaded not guilty to assaulting Huette Moore on February 7 at the Linden Hospital Complex. Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry upheld the prosecutor’s opposition to bail and remanded ...

The alleged purported sale of a sex DVD has landed a woman in trouble and she has been accused of obtaining GUY$400,00 by false pretence. Twenty-six year old Fazeela Khan of 247 BB Eccles, East Bank Demerara was granted GUY$125,000 bail when she appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry. Khan, who pleaded not guilty, has to return to court on ...

(MASHABLE.COM) The FBI and the Italian police arrested 24 people accused of taking part of large drug trafficking operation involving the ‘Ndrangheta, a powerful Italian Mafia-like syndicate, in coordinated raids in the United States and Italy on Tuesday. In New York, the FBI arrested 7 people, including high-ranking members of the Gambino family. On the other side of the Atlantic ...

A Partnership for National Unity’s (APNU) parliamentarian Vanessa Kissoon has been demoted further down the back bench in the National Assembly, prompting at least one government parliamentarian to register her concern about how women are being treated in the House. Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand was heckled when she made her feelings know about Kissoon’s apparent demotion during debate on ...

The National Assembly Monday night unanimously passed legislation that lawmakers hope will pave the way for judgments to be handed down speedily through the recording of court proceedings and the production of official records. But Opposition MPs raised some concerns about perceived drawbacks of the high0tech computerized recording system.  Shadow Attorney General Basil Williams said the pilot project should have ...

A Brazilian man was Monday slapped with three indictable robbery charges and one to attempt to commit a felony in Lethem, Rupununi. Paulo Silva was not required to plea to the charges that on February 5 at Pacifico General Store, Lethem he attempted to commit a felony by being armed with a gun attempted to rob Yon Fatt Chong. He ...

An elderly Guyana-born American man and a model at the Burrowes School of Art were Monday separately arraigned for allegedly attempting to smuggle cocaine in achar to the United States (US). They are 78-year old Winston Blades of 121 Meadow Brook Gardens, Georgetown and 38-year old Sadika Leona Odie of 138 Thomas Street, Kitty, Georgetown were arraigned for being in ...

Guyana’s National Assembly is now unable to pass amendments to the Anti Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) before the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) meets later this week to decide whether to impose a global blacklist on the country. Government and opposition representatives of the parliamentary select committee told Demerara Waves Online News (www.demwaves.com) that parliamentary legal ...