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Government will be re-tabling the anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/ CFT) and the firearms amendment bills, among several pieces of legislation voted down by the combined opposition when the House meets again next Thursday. Speaking specifically on the AML/ CFT bill at his weekly-post Cabinet briefing on Wednesday at the Office at the President, Shiv Chanderpaul Drive, Georgetown, Cabinet Secretary, Dr Luncheon said the re-tabling of the bill is the only course open to government after the pronouncement by the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF)…

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An American couple in Knoxville, Tennessee have started a fundraising drive in their hometown to complete the adoption of a child from Guyana, but the Director of the Child Care and Protection Agency in Guyana, Ann Greene is maintaining that the agency which overlooks all adoptions has “absolutely no record of the couple making any application to adopt a child in Guyana”. The couple Allen and Stephanie Harden have launched a website to raise over US$15,000 to offset all the expenses of the adoption. But in Guyana there are no…

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– will help users find local statistics on-the-go The U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday released dwellr, a new mobile app that delivers on-the-go access to key demographic, socio-economic and housing statistics for thousands of places across the nation. Powered by American Community Survey statistics, dwellr can pull up a list of U.S. locations that matches users’ preferences for such variables as city size, geographic region, job type and income. Users can also learn more about where they are by a simple tap of the screen that reveals educational levels, housing…

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Windsor Estates, a multibillion-dollar housing scheme, was officially launched in Guyana on Saturday, with Prime Minister Samuel Hinds being the first person to get a tour of one of the eight North Haven model houses. After touring the “Heritage”, a luxurious 1900-square-foot two-storey, three-bedroom house, inclusive of a kitchen, dining room, living room, bathrooms and a garage, Prime Minister Hinds expressed appreciation that the developer of Windsor Estates, Navigant Builders Inc, can meet the housing needs of the diaspora and even locals. Navigant Builders Inc Chief Executive Officer Danny Sawh,…

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– Jagdeo tells Commonwealth heads Former President, Bharrat Jagdeo last week again warned global leaders of the serious threats of climate change as he presented a report on the phenomenon at the just- concluded Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma back in June this year had appointed Jagdeo to lead a high-level team of experts to identify solutions to enable small, poor and climate-vulnerable Commonwealth countries to fight climate change. Jagdeo has been joined by eight others to lobby the international community…

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Guyana has been formally blacklisted by the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) as a result of the non-passage of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (Amendment) Bill, Attorney General Anil Nandlall and Legal Affairs Minister has said. Nandlall is attending a critical meeting of CFATF taking place in Freeport, The Bahamas. Prior to his departure for the meeting, Nandlall had observed that in May during the Nicaragua meeting, the country had been granted a six-month extension to pass the bill. “Not in my wildest imagination did…

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HEAD of the Presidential Secretariat (HPS), Dr. Roger Luncheon informed, on Wednesday said that public servants will benefit from salary increases for 2013. He said an announcement will be made soon, of the formal approval that was given the Public Service Ministry to go ahead with the payment. Speaking to the media at his usual post-Cabinet briefing in Office of the President, Shiv Chanderpaul Drive, Georgetown, Luncheon said Public Service Minister, Jennifer Westford reflected, last Tuesday, on the output of the engagements of her ministry. “And I think it would…

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Last Sunday (November 10, 2013), saw the members of the Richmond Hill-South Ozone Park Lions Club present a sparkling first anniversary celebratory function at the elegant Villa Russo Catering Hall on 101-12 Lefferts Blvd. in Richmond Hill. Billed as the club’s first year of service celebration, the event attracted over 150 enthusiastic members and supporters, including several senior Lions from other Districts and prominent residents of Richmond Hill/South Ozone Park. The Richmond Hill-South Ozone Park Lions Club (RHSOP) was chartered as the 78th Club of Lions District 20K-1 just about…

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Guyanese-American is top vote-getter in City Council race John Mootooveren made history Tuesday night when he became the first person of Guyanese descent to be elected to the City Council. But you wouldn’t know that when speaking with Mootooveren, a Democrat, after his win. All he wants to discuss is controlling spending in the budget and rehabilitating neighborhoods — possibly by appealing to the Schenectady Metroplex Development Authority for money. Mootooveren (pronounced Moo-ta-veer-in) said his beginnings in the South American country on the Caribbean coast aren’t what made him a…

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By Vahnu Manikchand   After evicting his reputed wife and his child from his Middle Street property on Monday and subsequently going on a drinking binge, Deryck Kanhai went on his murderous rampage on Tuesday, killing four persons, including two policemen, before lawmen cut him down. A father of seven, the 52-year-old gold miner, is the owner of the three-storey building located at Lot 315 Middle Street, South Cummingsburg, which also housed two businesses. The fourth of nine children, Kanhai grew up in Bartica but moved to Georgetown along with…

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