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Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan’s frustration over the sloppy works of contractors may soon be coming to an end with plans in the pipeline to ban firms from bidding for projects on the basis of their previous performances. Jordan…

The Bank of Guyana (BoG) has commenced work on a national strategy for payments system reform which will ultimately see the introduction of an electronics payment structure that can replace the current paper-based payment mechanism.…

The police will process a Mahdia resident shortly for court after they were successful in their search of his premises which uncovered 10.9 kilograms of marijuana. The man, who has been on the police radar for a while now, was arrested…

Two men were on Monday remanded to prison by Magistrate Judy Latchman for allegedly robbing a 66-year-old pastor of $1.8M on Church Street, Georgetown. Renhart Khan, a 31-year-old Fish Vendor of Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara and…

A 19-year-old route 40 Minibus conductor was on Monday released on $100,000 bail after he is accused of stabbing a 17-year-old school boy to the neck with scissors. Miguel Isaac of Garnett Street, Kitty appeared before Magistrate Judy…

The alleged mastermind of the armed robbery committed on a Brazilian national and her driver at Bell Air Par, Georgetown was on Monday sentenced to 50 months imprisonment while his co-accused were remanded to prison.…

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has described the 2018 National Budget as the most disastrous he has ever seen, noting that the policies and measures have failed on every imaginable standard. He made those initial remarks during a press…

Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan today tabled the 2018 National Budget totalling $267.1B, a 7.1 percent increase over the revised 2017 Budget. Budget 2017 totalled $250B and was presented to the National Assembly on November 28, 2016.…

In his Budget 2018 presentation, Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan announced that government has decided to grant amnesty to “all delinquent taxpayers - corporate and individual” - who are outstanding in the filing of true and correct tax…

The government has announced a $500 increase in old age pension, effective January 1, 2018. Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan said this increase represents an almost 49% rise in just two and a half years in the old age pension. As a…