Guyana News

TORONTO, (Reuters) – World leaders agreed yesterday  to take different paths for cutting budget deficits and making  their banking systems safer, a reflection of the uneven and  fragile economic recovery in many countries.

BISHKEK/OSH, (Reuters) – Kyrgyzstan’s leader said yesterday the country had voted to create Central Asia’s first  parliamentary democracy, in a landmark referendum only two weeks  after an explosion of ethnic bloodshed killed hundreds.

The World Bank Guyana office should reconsider its priorities, Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh says, accusing the Bank’s staff of having “one of the largest appetites for publicity and self-promotion” and seeking to increase their “creature comforts” by relocating to “a grand former colonial residence opposite one of the city’s most fashionable cafés”.

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss., (Reuters) – Large patches of  thick oil washed ashore in Mississippi yesterday, the first  time crude from the BP Plc spill in the Gulf of Mexico has hit  the state’s coast.

A clothes vendor was refused bail on Friday when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson charged with simple larceny.

CAMPECHE, Mexico, (Reuters) – Tropical depression  Alex moved into the southwestern Gulf of Mexico, prompting the  closure of two key Mexican oil ports and was likely to regain  storm status today, the U.S.

A fifteen-year-old boy was refused bail when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson on Friday charged with breaking and entering the dwelling of his cousin’s friend and carting off several articles.

The family of a 20-year-old woman who is suffering from kidney failure is appealing for help to enable the young woman to have a kidney transplant.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – The Group of 20 ended a summit  on Sunday saying its top priority was strengthening the shaky  economic recovery and pledging to clean up debt-burdened public  finances without stunting growth.

British High Commissioner to Guyana, Fraser Wheeler says this country has a “politicized racial divide” which strains its development and that from a donor perspective all political and civil society players need to find some form of accommodation.

By Andre Haynes With strong emphasis on his reputation for quality leadership, Major General (rtd) Joe Singh is being quietly pushed as the person to lead an opposition coalition at next year’s general elections.

By Andre Haynes The race composition of the sample used in the recent CADRES political opinion survey was not representative of the national demographic profile, but the pollster maintains that even if it had been the findings about electoral support would have been no different.

– join opposition coalition for national elections Leader of the Independent Party, Mark Benschop has defined his political strategy as building a new grassroots movement across the country which will charge into the next general elections either with a combined opposition and or as a single party keen on securing parliamentary seats.

By Mark McGowan Opposition parties are calling for the government to come clean regarding the award of the US$15.4 million contract to Synergy Holdings for phase one of the Amaila Falls Hydroelectric Project (AFHEP), saying greater transparency is needed because taxpayers’ money is involved.

The Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) is urging Labour Minister Manzoor Nadir to convene talks between the union and the Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI), in keeping with a recent commitment he made to the global union federation, ICEM.

Government will be pressing for the prosecution of managers who cannot account for the assets of co-ops, even as Minister of Labour Manzoor Nadir described the process of co-operatives reform as very slow and likened it to “pulling teeth”.

– Brunswijk, Somohardjo join forces The quest of Desi Bouterse’s Mega Combination (MC) to forge a coalition government took a new twist this week, when two of the parties originally being courted by the group, decided to form a bloc against the MC.

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) has vehemently protested the search “purportedly for drugs” which was carried out on the luggage of its executive member Dr David Hinds on June 14  as he was departing Guyana.

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea’s ruling communist party has called a rare meeting to elect a new leadership team, in a move analysts said could set in motion succession plans for ailing leader Kim Jong-il’s youngest son.

Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud says the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Guianas project needs to be reformulated to make it  more aligned towards  providing support to the wider objectives of the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) and REDD+ initiatives.