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The World Bank has highlighted a decline for conducting business in Guyana. The report for World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business ranking for 2018 showed that Guyana slipped two places – from 124 in 2017 to 126 for soon approaching 2018. Doing Business, measures regulations that affect various areas regarding the life of a business or in setting up new businesses. Some of the categories considered to determine ‘the ease of doing businesses were “starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors,…

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With the aim of sustaining Guyana’s wildlife resources and to curb hunting activities, the Wildlife Conservation and Management Commission held a one-day consultation with stakeholders to highlight regulations within the industry. This comes 14 months after the passage of the Wildlife Conservation and Management Act and issues surrounding the hunting and illegal exportation of birds and other exotic and endangered animals, which still plague the wildlife sector in Guyana. The consultation exercise at the Everest Cricket Club sought to examine regulations on hunting, trapping, protection, conservation, management and the sustainable…

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The Government is redesigning the services being offered by post offices to increase its revenue stream. Public Telecommunications Minister Cathy Hughes shared how this would be done at the Guyana Postal and Telecommunication Workers’ Union 21 Delegates (second triennial) Conference at the Union’s East Street headquarters on Sunday. The Minister has committed to ensuring there was an increase in agency fees. “These services have been totally not looked at, not supported…and it’s about time we changed it,” Minister Hughes said. According to the Department of Public Information (DPI), the Government…

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Murder-accused Rudolph Singh appeared before Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall on allegations that he caused the death of Kevin Harrison at Ideal Road, along the Linden/Soesdyke Highway. When arraigned at the High Court in Georgetown, the accused denied the July 12, 2013 stabbing to death of Harrison, by way of entering a plea of not guilty. A jury of 12 members was subsequently empanelled to hear the case in which a total of seven witnesses are expected to testify. In the opening addresses, State Prosecutor Narissa Leander implored the jury to keenly…

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…Jagdeo says in response to Jordan’s ‘no new taxes’ statement A promise made by Finance Minister Winston Jordan that there will be no new taxes in Budget 2018 has received heavy criticism by Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo, who said the tax measures imposed in almost every productive sector by the coalition Government in 2015 is enough reasons not to introduce new taxes. Jordan told the media in early October that support will instead be provided to small businesses, including miners and according to him, due consideration will be given to…

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…Guyana’s First Lady urges As the Guyana Cancer Foundation (GCF) and the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company Limited (GTT) close the curtains on the month-long PINKtober activities aimed at raising funds to support the fight against cancer, First Lady, Mrs. Sandra Granger reiterated the importance of early detection in the fight against the disease and urged both men and women to safeguard their health by scheduling annual medical check-ups. She made these remarks at the PINKtober closing ceremony, where GTT presented a cheque valued G$4,752,680.00 to the GCF, which was…

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The Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha has joined the long list of organisations that have come out and publicly registered condemnation of President David Granger’s unilateral appointment of retired Justice James Patterson as Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). The Dharmic Sabha said it is “disturbed at the unprecedented action” of President Granger in unilaterally appointing 84-year-old Patterson to the post of Chairman of GECOM. The Sabha, in a statement, noted that the Constitution of Guyana, which is its supreme law, prescribes a process for the selection of a GECOM…

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The Doobay Medical and Research Centre has announced an executive clinic with Dr Sonia Anand, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at McMaster University in Canada. The executive clinic, to be held on Saturday, October 28, at the Doobay Medical and Research Centre at Annandale, East Coast Demerara, aims to provide high-level medical consultations to senior business, Government, and other national leaders by one of the world leaders in vascular medicine. Dr Sonia Anand is the Director of the Population Genomics Programme and a vascular medicine specialist at Hamilton Health Sciences…

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Antigua and Barbuda’s Tourism, Investment and Energy Minister Asot Michael was detained and later released by the United Kingdom Metropolitan Police yesterday, Antigua’s Observer newspaper reported. But before Michael could walk out of the detention centre in London, his prime minister, Gaston Browne, had revoked his appointment as minister. Browne was informed of the detention in Jordan on his way from Montenegro where he led a government delegation to an international conference on citizenship by investment, the newspaper quoted a press statement from the prime minister’s office. “While I have…

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By Jarryl Bryan The rate at which new motor vehicles have been introduced locally has in fact exceeded the capacity of Guyana’s roads to accommodate them. This is according to a recent report from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), which threw a spotlight on this discrepancy. According to the IDB’s “Reformulation of the road network, upgrade and expansion program” report, this situation is directly contributing to congestion and accidents. “Georgetown faces limited road infrastructure combined with a rapidly growing fleet (of) 100,000 new registered vehicles over the last decade (which)…

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