Guyana Observer News

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) yesterday condemned the report on the seizure of two high-end vehicles in a tax evasion probe and said that it believes that a number of its employees are being paid to release information. The GRA was specific enough to state that these employees are in the pay of Kaieteur News. The agency also condemned the publication of comments purportedly made by Commissioner-General, Khurshid Sattaur. In a press release the GRA said that Mr Sattaur’s expletive laden comments were “made off the record” to a reporter. On Thursday, Kaieteur News reported that two “Jaguar” cars were seized almost two weeks earlier by Customs, an arm of GRA, after it was discovered that the declaration forms carried a lower engine size. Taxes and duties on imported vehicles are calculated based on year and engine size. Kaieteur News was told that while the “Jaguar” engines are on an average around 3,000 cc, the Customs declaration forms listed the engine size as below 1,500 cc.

A 34-year-old man was gunned down yesterday morning in the passageway near his Thomas Street, Kitty, home, over a quarrel about a missing motorcycle. Troy Smith, a father of one, received a single gunshot to his upper chest and was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital. The shooter has been identified as a neighbour who lives about four houses away from Smith. This newspaper was told that the shooter’s girlfriend was taken into custody yesterday morning. A police source yesterday told this newspaper that the woman had a bag of clothing and the shooter’s passport. “We arrested her because we feel she knows the whereabouts of the shooter and was probably heading there drop off the items,” said the source.

Jagdeo tekking a wicked back ball...the soldier later told her friends that she only felt a "pen" in his pocket and that there was no "gun salute".

 (Editor's Note: Do you know this racist PPP pig?)

1:29pmMohamed
u left pnc how long
1:29pmMe
Like you come pun me page fuh hut up me head?
lol
I was never wid de PNC budday
never been a member of any party in Guyana
1:30pmMohamed
really then why u were in jail for arson
1:31pmMe
me, in jail for arson? man like you drnking or smoking?
1:31pmMohamed
sorry maybe its the wrong person my apology
Me
I was put in jail for treason by your friends at Freedom House and Jagdeo for "TREASON"

Modern Day garbage trucks at the "Mandela Dumpsite"...they need to remove this dumpsiite from that Princess Street area and take it either to the Office of the President or State House. God damn shame on Jagdeo, Hamilton Green and the PPP.

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 By Freddie Kissoon

The U.S. Embassy’s Chargé d’Affairs, Karen Williams, before she completed her tenure held a press conference and though the news was bad, it was good in the sense that the statistics on migration that she offered show the ignorance and abominable mediocrity that pervades the corridors of power in this country. According to Ms. Williams, 14 Guyanese per day leave here to become legal residents of the US. Now that number does not include legal migration to other lands and the backtrack route. We can add 28 more flyers because Canada has a self-sponsorship programme that is emptying the pool of educated Guyanese. Then there is the natural flow, both legally and illegally to CARICOM states and the US. It may be a correct figure of 42 persons that take winged impulse daily from these shores. The World Bank put it at 82 percent of the people with tertiary education that moves out to other lands. One recalls a press conference by President Jagdeo in dealing with Carifesta and he said that the Ministry of Works couldn’t secure engineers. Mr. Sattaur Gafoor in an interview with the Stabroek News four years ago mentioned the frightening shortage of skills.

 Ranks of the Guyana Police Force are confused with regards to the use of cellular phones while on duty on the roads. This follows clear directives by Commissioner of Police Henry Greene who reiterated that it will be disrespectful for ranks to speak to someone on a cellular phone while executing their duties on the road. The issue stems from a controversial action taken by the force to have one of its traffic ranks taken before a senior member of the judiciary after she refused to speak to him on the cell phone. The female rank had apprehended a motorist for a traffic violation and he (the motorist) subsequently called the judicial official who requested to speak with the rank on the phone. The rank reportedly declined to speak to the official on the cellular phone, but advised that he call the relevant station and speak to a senior officer to iron out the matter.