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Guyanese fire fighters in Lethem on Wednesday went into action in northern Brazil, extinguishing a blaze and preventing it from spreading to neighbouring buildings. “The auxiliary in Lethem received a call for help from the Bon Fim area because there is no fire service there,” Fire Chief, Marlon Gentle told Demerara Waves Online News.  He said one building was damaged ...

Value Added Tax (VAT) on Internet data will be used to help fund the Guyana government’s Information Communication Technology (ICT), Public Telecommunications Minister Cathy Hughes said Wednesday. “The CAT on data has also received harsh criticisms but I want to remind us all that it is a necessary revenue stream given the range of transformational measures I have shared. In ...

The Media and members of the public were turned away from City Hall today by City Police who were given orders handed down by a majority of city councillors. It was Councillor Oscar Clarke who moved a motion, during today’s extraordinary statutory meeting of the council, that the session discussing Georgetown’s 2017 budget, laws for the Parking Meter project, as ...

Police and a suspected bandit traded gunshots in the yard of the St. Phillips Anglican Church, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown, considered a major hot-spot for robberies. There is no indication that the man was shot, but he police said he dropped a .38 revolver and three rounds before fleeing the scene. The incident occurred at about 11 O’clock Tuesday night when members ...

Elections for Georgetown’s new Mayor and Deputy Mayor have been announced but Deputy Mayor Sherod Duncan is calling for a debate among the candidates before the December 15 election. “I call on any Councillor(s) contending for the position of Mayor, as I am, to let’s have a public discourse/debate on the management and future of Georgetown,” Duncan said on his facebook ...

Minister of State Joseph Harmon is convinced that the ‘doom and gloom’ positions take on Budget 2017 is a result of scare tactics used by the Opposition PPP, that is reflective on similar tactics used on the Anti-Money Laundering legislation in the last Parliament. “Complaints by the Opposition that the budget is murderous, would lead to suicide and other forms ...

At least 21 Guyanese deportees arrived from the United States (US) Tuesday afternoon, after serving jail terms for various offences. Head of the Guyana Police Force’s (GPF) Criminal Investigations Department, Senior Superintendent Wendell Blanhum said the deportees were convicted for homicide, narcotics, robbery and other offences. Blanhum said the deportees would be monitored. “We will be monitoring them. Yes, there ...

A 29 year old male supervisor was Tuesday afternoon nursing a gunshot wound to his right thigh, having been robbed and shot by one of two bandits in the compound of the Ministry of Finance . The incident occurred at about 12:55 PM.  Investigations revealed that the victim John Bryan was walking on Urquhart Street, North Cummingsburg, heading in a westerly ...

Opposition parliamentarian Nigel Dharamlall is convinced government parliamentarians are not as honest about their feelings toward budget 2017 as they are letting out. The MP believes a lie-detector test would help to set the record straight. Dharamlall proposed lie-detector test for the government parliamentarians were among a list of recommendations he made for correcting the budget he called a “national ...

Opposition MP and former Culture, Youth and Sport Minister, Dr Frank Anthony had the National Assembly in an uproar this morning when he rose in the House to declare the new 14% value added taxes for a number of items is a tax on safe-sex, as well as the deaf, the elderly, the disabled, and the sick. “This year is quite ...