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BY MICHAEL YOUNGE   Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy said there is no fraud at the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA), as he dismissed as false, the allegations levelled against the entity’s Chief Executive Officer Lionel Wordsworth and junior Agriculture Minister Ali Baksh. Speaking with this publication on Friday, Dr Ramsammy said Auditor General (AG) Deodat Sharma was tasked with doing a special audit of the entity following some allegations that surfaced about the misappropriation and misuse of funds. He said the AG’s report is not yet completed, but…

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United States Ambassador to Guyana D Brent Hardt recently met with Volunteer Youth Corps Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Goldie Scott upon her return from the United States after participating in the prestigious embassy-sponsored International Visitor Leadership Programme (IVLP). Scott, who is chief executive officer of the Volunteer Youth Corps Inc, shared her IVLP programme experience with the ambassador, and discussed how she intends to apply the insights gained from her experience to the benefit of her organisation and to Guyana, the U.S. embassy in Guyana said in a release. She…

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Five students and one mentor representing several regions of Guyana have embarked on a three week exchange programme to the United States as part of the Youth Ambassadors Programme (YAP). The YAP group arrived in Denver, Colorado on Sunday and will travel to Washington, DC before the programme concludes October 29, the U.S. embassy here said in a statement. Representing Guyana are Kadeem Gordon, Kaya Dover, Larrex McAllister, Blossom Dublin, Kayshell Jennings, and Ryan Hoppie as their mentor.  This is the second group of youth ambassadors representing Guyana for the…

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– as GRA introduces stricter penalties for tax cheats Several persons sued by the City Council for nonpayment of rates and taxes made their first court appearance on Tuesday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts before Magistrate Faith McGusty. Dr Jennifer Basdeo- Green, wife of Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green is being sued for Gy$10,145,631 for nonpayment of rates and taxes for the period of 1997-2013. Green was represented in court by Attorney Robert Corbin who wrote the court asking to be excused. Her matter is adjourned to November 18. Rajpati Latchmansingh…

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– tens of millions paid to Lall without public tender The tens of millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money that have been paid by the management of the Guyana National Newspapers Limited (GNNL) for the purchase of what has turned out to be a scrap-metal printing press from Mohan Lall, aka Glenn Lall, owner and publisher of the muckraking Kaieteur News, to improve the print quality of the Sunday and Guyana Chronicle newspapers appear to have gone down the drain. According to sources inside the Chronicle, the press sold to…

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Legal Affairs Minister Anil Nandlall said unless Guyana attends the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) November meeting with the enacted  Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Bill in hand, it will not be able to prevent the adoption of the draft report in which the county  is blacklisted. During an interview on the National Communications Network (NCN), on Monday, Nandlall, who is also the attorney general, noted that this was not even guaranteed. Review He reminded that Dominica was in a similar position in May, when…

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By Michael Younge   Bilateral relations between Guyana and South Africa are expected to be improved significantly, as the government of Guyana has officially established a new high commission in one of that country’s three capitals, Pretoria, following the appointment of Barbara Halley as the new chargé d’affaires. Foreign Affairs Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett said Halley was appointed over a month ago and was in South Africa, assisting with the completion of the premises where the commission will be housed. She explained that President Donald Ramotar approved the establishment of the…

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President Donald Ramotar on Monday swore in Athmaram Mangal as the new commissioner to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), to replace Jaya Manickchand, who resigned a few weeks ago. Ramotar congratulated the new member of the GECOM team and took the opportunity to reiterate the importance of the commission. He also said there was need for it to function at its maximum. Ramotar said he hopes that the new commissioner will serve the commission with pride and professionalism, maintaining its standards. The president noted that the new GECOM commissioner is…

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