Guyana News

A group of eight birding and natural history tour operators has flown into the Iwokrama reserve in Region Nine as the Guyana Sustainable Tourism Initiative (GSTI) hosts its seventh tourism familiarisation trip.

Thirteen contestants were selected to enter the 7th preliminary round of the Cellink Kidstage workshop, when auditions were held at the New Amsterdam Town Hall last Saturday.

PHOENIX (Reuters) – US Hispanics, frustrated that President Barack Obama has yet to fulfil a pledge to revamp the immigration system, are warning him to deliver this year or face the consequences in congressional elections in November.

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Armed rebel groups in Somalia are using the Internet for fundraising and recruitment, and they achieve better results through the Web than they do on the ground, a United Nations report said.

– for solar energy, expansion of centre Red Thread signed a contract with the Japanese Embassy yesterday for grant assistance which will fund several projects at its South Georgetown office including expansion works and the installation of an alternative source of energy.

One man’s trash, Australian engineer Christopher Clash knows, can be another man’s treasure.

MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) – Armed men likely linked to drug gangs blocked highways with trucks and buses in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey yesterday in an apparent attempt to hamper army operations near the US border.

The report on the investigation ordered by President Bharrat Jagdeo into the treatment that late minister Dr Desrey Fox received at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) has been forwarded to the Office of the President following its completion.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nigerian acting President Goodluck Jonathan has consolidated his grip on power, easing a political crisis that fanned fears of instability in Africa’s most populous nation, a senior US official said yesterday.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Almost a quarter of a billion people moved out of slum conditions in the past decade, driven by rapid economic growth in emerging giants India and China, but the number of people living in them continues to rise, the United Nations housing agency said yesterday.

-Persaud The authorities will continue make relevant interventions during the current El Nino weather phenomenon, while an existing contingency plan will be reviewed and revised at the end of the prolonged dry spell, Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud assured Thursday.

The Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development stated yesterday that no authorisation has been given for increased rates for properties in the Good Success-Caledonia Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) area, on the East Bank Demerara.

SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) – A Dominican Republic man who acted as legal adviser to a group of US missionaries held for several weeks in Haiti on child kidnapping charges has been arrested in Santo Domingo, local police said yesterday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A top-ranking Colombian rebel was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison by a judge in New York yesterday for conspiring to import tons of cocaine into the United States.

TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) – Police running scared from drug gangs in one of Mexico’s deadliest cities are using bizarre rituals involving animal sacrifice and spirit tattoos to seek protection from raging violence on the US border.

DAKAR, (Reuters) – In the eight months since U.S.  President Barack Obama’s first visit to sub-Saharan Africa, the  army has seized power in Niger, a power struggle in Nigeria  bedevils its government, and Guinea’s then leader stands accused  of involvement in a massacre.

KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysia’s government is  considering proposals to shake up its economic and social  system to boost competitiveness and growth, a government source  told Reuters.

– after flagging huge financial wastage Former materials manager of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) yesterday said he was fired by the company because he produced a damning report which exposed weaknesses that were costing the corporation millions of dollars.

Police ranks responding to a report of attempted robbery at a Mandela Avenue Service Station came under heavy gunfire from two men in a car.

The National Assembly last evening passed a motion giving the go-ahead for the long-awaited Standing Committee on Oversight of the Security Sector to be constituted and become operational.