Guyana News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US business groups yesterday criticized President Barack Obama’s administration for its continued failure to resolve a cross-border trucking dispute that prompted Mexico to slap duties on about $2.4 billion worth of US exports nearly a year ago.

OSLO (Reuters) – Farm experts plan to track down wild relatives of crops such as rice or wheat with traits that make them able to resist global warming in a project costing perhaps $50 million, a leading expert said yesterday.

The body of a 66-year-old man was fished from the Demerara River after he went missing following a night of drinking.

Story and photos by Shabna Ullah Even as farmers remain pressured by El Nino, consumers have been enjoying cheap prices for vegetables because of a glut that is adding to the woes of cash crop farmers in West Berbice who are struggling to cope with the high cost of production.

A high number of malaria cases was discovered when residents turned up at the One Mile and Christianburg health centres in Linden yesterday to tap in on the expertise of a team of overseas medical professionals.

Police yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for a Brazilian national who shot his fellow countryman in the face during a row over money at Butterfly Backdam, North West District.

-new gender justice advocate Newly-appointed advocate for gender justice within Caricom Dr Rosina Wiltshire is warning that until violence against women is addressed, the downward slide of societies across the region, including growing violence in schools and communities would continue.

-Persaud says market to be set up between stadium, Princess Hotel Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud yesterday disclosed that the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) has stretched its resources to the stage where it has been borrowing equipment, such as water pumps for main drainage areas across the country in order to cushion the effects of El Niño.

Women in Region Five were recognized for their contribution to society at a cocktail reception held in their honour yesterday by the Regional Women’s Affairs Committee (RWAC) at the regional boardroom.

A greater number of vehicles will be heading to Guyana’s shores as the largest roll on/roll off vehicle carrier to ever visit Port Georgetown begins operations between here and the Far East.

As the government moves ahead with its plans to construct a $3.6 billion High Level Foreshore Discharge at Hope/Dochfour, the Guyana Association of Professional Engineers (GAPE) believes that there are cheaper alternatives that could be pursued.

It was an emotional scene yesterday afternoon at Anna Catherina Sea View, West Coast Demerara  when Latchmin Soman, a mother of three whose plight was highlighted by this newspaper several weeks ago when high tides pounded the nearby sea defence, received a cheque from a ‘Good Samaritan’ which will be used to pay for a house lot.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has assured that the United States will continue to work together with the new Iraqi government that was chosen to lead the country at a critical time, following the recent three-day national elections.

A man who appeared in court yesterday charged with assaulting his reputed wife ended up fainting twice resulting in Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson calling a 10-minute recess in the morning’s proceedings.

General Manager of the Guyana Gold Board, Anantram Balram has denied that he instructed former manager of the Board’s Bartica Office, George Gomes to randomly test gold being purchased, thereby breaching procedure.

Buxton vendors met Minister of Transport and Hydraulics, Robeson Benn on Friday evening to discuss where they could be relocated.

The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) said yesterday that  Br.

Rodwell Warte, 47, of 3 C Meadow Brook, appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson charged with unlawfully assaulting Dianne London, his reputed wife, so as to cause her actual bodily harm.

DOGO NAHAWA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Villagers in central Nigeria buried dozens of bodies, including those of women and children, in a mass grave yesterday after attacks in which several hundred people were feared to have been killed.

The Women’s Progressive Organisation (WPO) said though Guyanese women have many more freedoms than some women across the globe, more can still be done for them.