CHAIRPERSON of the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) Ms. Bibi Shadick announced, yesterday, that approved broadcasters will have to pay a fee of $2.5M, annually, to continue their operations.

THE Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) held a workshop yesterday targeting members of the Judiciary to discuss the confiscation of the proceeds of crime, a seminar that Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall deems timely.

THE behaviour of the political Opposition towards the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Act (AML/CFT) has been characterised by government as “deliberate sloth,” Secretary to the Cabinet Dr Roger Luncheon said yesterday.

CHIEF Justice (ag.) Ian Chang, at yesterday’s hearing of the Government of Guyana’s High Court challenge of the cutting of the 2012 National Budget ruled that since Members of Parliament have immunity and cannot be sued, Minister of Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh and Leader of the Opposition, David Granger are therefore excluded from being a part of the case. He mentioned in the ruling that they should not have been named in the case which comes up for hearing again on July 5.