Guyana News

The Ministry of Agriculture and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) recently hosted a two-day seminar aimed at improving farm management and operation.

BURAS, La./LONDON, (Reuters) – U.S. President  Barack Obama will press BP executives this week to set up an  escrow account to pay damage claims by individuals and  businesses hurt by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israel said yesterday it  would set up its own investigation into a deadly raid on a  convoy of Gaza-bound aid ships, and that its panel would include  two foreign observers.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – A Flemish party that wants to  split Belgium triumphed in a parliamentary election yesterday, a  result that could make it hard to form a coalition quickly and  deliver austerity to contain a rising national debt.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The World Bank will need to  get creative in raising funds to help the poorest countries now  that the richest ones are feeling pinched themselves.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A $5 million prize for former  African leaders who set examples of honest, democratic  government will not be awarded for a second year running, the  sponsor said yesterday.

OSH, Kyrgyzstan,  (Reuters) – Russia sent at least 150  paratroopers to Kyrgyzstan yesterday to protect its military  facilities as ethnic clashes spread in the Central Asian state,  bringing the death toll from days of fighting to 113.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Former Soviet leader Mikhail  Gorbachev has appealed to the Kremlin to make Russia more   democratic, saying President Dmitry Medvedev’s push to modernise  the country would not succeed otherwise.

– party groups to nominate presidential, PM candidates Following a meeting of its National Executive Committee (NEC) yesterday, the leadership of the AFC remained unchanged while it announced that it would stick by a promise to rotate its top two candidates for next year’s general election.

– donors advised against releasing $$ By Andre Haynes The government has advised donors against releasing funds for local government election programmes, while work on crucial legislative reforms is still to be completed.

The Guyana Police Force is facing further embarrassment, after a policeman was nabbed shortly after he and two others committed an armed robbery at Unity, Parika, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) on Friday night.

The US Government is willing to make resident security advisors available to Caribbean countries but will Guyana be interested?

Given the substantial amount of remittances coming into the region annually, the US government is considering implementing a system of leverage where some of fees charged can go directly towards specific aspects of development in the various territories.

There are 26 acting positions in public service agencies, according to Public Service Minister Jennifer Westford.

The Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) is under real regulatory control of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC).

– efforts to improve capacity ongoing Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud said the sluices at Kofi and Cunha and the spill weir at Land of Canaan are all working properly although they are not functioning at their maximum capacity and efforts are already being made to improve their performance.

Incumbent President of the Guyana Association of Women Lawyers Sandra Kurtzious was re-elected unanimously when the body held its Annual General Meeting recently.

The Ministry of Amerindian Affairs has distributed 574 solar panels to 16 Amerindian communities in regions ones, two and nine.

Business Guyana 2010, the official business guide for potential investors, was launched by the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Friday last nearly a year of groundwork.

By Gaulbert Sutherland Iwokrama received US$100,000 last year under its forest deal with Canopy Capital (CC) with the sum received used to support measurement and valuation of Iwokrama’s ecosystem services.