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US delivers over two dozen deportees to Guyana
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana- The United States government on Tuesday afternoon delivered at least 26 Guyanese deportees on a special chartered flight which landed at the Cheddi Jagan Airport just after 3 o’ clock.
US Government wants Guyana elections to be policy driven
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana- The Embassy of the United States in Georgetown has welcomed the President’s announcement of a date for national elections and now wants to see the contesting parties focus on policy issues.
VI leaders being terrorised by powerful countries – E. Maduro
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - “What the premier [Dr The Hon. D. Orlando Smith) is now seeking to do is unconstitutional; I don’t care what anybody says. You and I and everybody here in the British Virgin Islands have the right to a certain amount of secrecy until we breach our constitutional rights.” This is according to the host of BVI Forum, Mr Edmund Maduro.
UPDATE: Reporting obligations under FATCA on US persons not VI Gov’t- Premier
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Premier Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith has maintained his stance that the Virgin Islands is not being forced or coerced into finalising an Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) with the United States under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) but instead his government is of the opinion that cooperating is what is best for the territory.