Guyana News

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – “Retou ala Vi. Ayiti  Pap Peri” (Back to life, Haiti will not die) reads the banner  in Creole stretched up beside a crowded camp of earthquake  survivors in the heart of the wrecked capital Port-au-Prince.

A nine-year-old Grade Four student of the Corriverton Primary School broke both of his hands and suffered injuries to his head when he fell around 11 am last Friday while trying to retrieve his kite.

A staff/volunteer of the Guyana Red Cross Society is in Haiti working along with the 20 emergency response units (ERUs) with different  specializations that have been deployed so far as part of the massive response from the international community  in the wake  of the  devastating 7.0 magnitude  earthquake on January 12.

KABUL, (Reuters) – Barack Obama made his first trip  to Afghanistan as U.S.

By Alva Solomon Instilling moral values into the minds of children can these days be a difficult task and in a rapidly developing technological world the ills of society can be just a click away.

ARKHANGELSK, Russia, (Reuters) – Thousands of angry  people demonstrated in a northwestern Russian city yesterday  against the high cost of living and demanded that the government  of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin quits.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Dressed in white,  shaking decorated gourd rattles and singing praises to “Olorum  Papa” (God the Father), several hundred practitioners of  Haiti’s voodoo religion held a public ceremony yesterday to  honour those killed in the Jan.

Residents found a packet filled with bullets on Freeman Street, East La Penitence yesterday.

BANGKOK – Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva held talks  with protest leaders yesterday in an effort to defuse growing  tension and avert possible confrontation after protesters  intensified their drive to topple the government.

– cops hunting him A 32-year-old woman of Glasgow Housing Scheme, East Bank Berbice was hacked to death and her mother badly chopped when her husband attacked them with a cutlass around 1.30 am yesterday.

The furore, which had erupted in opposition camps close to two years ago when the Court of Appeal Amendment Bill was introduced, has intensified as a result of its recent passage in Parliament, but disquiet about the legislation also runs in the legal fraternity.

– escape with over $250,000 A shop owner is nursing a chop wound to his head after he was attacked by gun-wielding bandits who posed as customers; the police subsequently arrested two men who are to be placed on an identification parade.

President Bharrat Jagdeo is not in support of conducting a probe into the financial dealings of Clico (Guyana) since he believes that such an investigation would only disclose what has already been established through an audit of the company.

Twelve-year-old Clinton Warde Jr, a bubbly first form student of President’s College (PC), dreams of becoming a doctor but his parents are worried about whether he would be able to fulfil his dreams.

– at sparsely attended police/community meeting Speeding minibuses trying to avoid traffic lights, vehicles owned by a security firm blocking traffic and noise nuisance from barking dogs were among some of the issues raised by residents of Queenstown who attended a `Face the Community’ meeting yesterday.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has begun the sale of liquor, trade and miscellaneous licences at the Licences Revenue Office at Smyth and Princes Streets, Georgetown, and at identified GRA regional offices throughout the country.

Public-spirited citizens yesterday afternoon assisted a robbery victim on Mandela Avenue, resulting in one of the culprits being caught and handed over to the police.

The bids to build the access roads and other infrastructure to facilitate the development of the Amaila Falls Hydropower project have been evaluated and an announcement on the award is expected to be made shortly.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – China is slowly and  reluctantly falling in line with Russia and four Western powers  by backing the idea of new U.N.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Landmarks such as Sydney’s  Opera House, Beijing’s Forbidden City and Taiwan’s Taipei 101  office tower temporarily went dark yesterday as nations  dimmed the lights for Earth Hour 2010 to call for action on  climate change.