Guyana News

– service contracts must be enforced Emphasising his concern about lapses in patient care at medical institutions countrywide, President Bharrat Jagdeo says the government expects to see major improvement as it continues to invest more in healthcare.

The Ministry of Agriculture recently signed a MoU with the University of Guyana (UG) and McGill University that will allow 24 engineers to read for a Post Graduate Certificate in Water Resource Management.

Grenada Minister of Youth Empowerment, Culture and Sport Patrick Simmons, in his capacity as  Chairman of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD), has called on his colleague ministers to take stock and “do business differently, to get things done the right way and at the right time.”

ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – The African Union (AU)  agreed yesterday to consider a Senegalese proposal to resettle  Haiti’s earthquake homeless and possibly create a state for them  in Africa.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico, (Reuters) – Suspected drug  hitmen burst into a party and killed 13 high school students,  in Ciudad Juarez yesterday, the latest massacre in one of the  world’s deadliest cities, the Mexican army said.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Foreign doctors treating  the injured from Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake fear more  could die as emergency medical relief winds down, but food  distribution was smoother yesterday using a coupon system.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The U.S. military will  resume evacuation flights to the United States for critically  injured Haitian earthquake victims within the next 12 hours,  the White House said yesterday.

The coastal area experienced a high spring-tide level last evening and Regions 2, 3, and 6 experienced minimal overtopping, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s Taliban  denied a report yesterday that their leader Hakimullah Mehsud  had been killed in a U.S.

ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – Tens of millions more people  in Africa and elsewhere will be driven into poverty this year  even though the world is recovering from the global financial  crisis, World Bank president Robert Zoellick said yesterday.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – “Avatar” ventured further  into rarefied territory at the worldwide box office during the  weekend, surpassing the $2 billion mark days after it broke the  record held by “Titanic.”

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Bob Marley has been dead  for 28 years, but his legacy lives on at the Grammys.

– protest will go ahead Bartica miners yesterday rebuffed government assurances that nothing would be done to impair the mining sector, declaring in a tumultuous meeting that the administration was not to be trusted.

A 35-year-old man of at Little Abary, East Coast Demerara who reportedly chopped his nephew to death around 7 pm on Friday is still in custody at the Mahaicony Police Station along with two other nephews.

A 62-year-old security guard attached to a poultry farm at Chesney, Corentyne was shot dead around 10:20 pm on Friday by a 17-year-old employee who was reportedly playing with a gun belonging to the owner of the farm.

A small dedicated unit is to be established to co-ordinate Caricom’s continued assistance to Haiti over the long term, following the catastrophic earthquake which struck that country on January 12.

Inquests into three reported unlawful killings by police last year are slated to begin.

A year after the Trinidad Central Bank engineered a bailout for the CL Financial Conglomerate, the circumstances of which precipitated the collapse of several of its subsidiaries including Clico (Guyana), several local policyholders, former employees and agents of the company are still feeling the squeeze.

Although he is bedridden, Richard Fresco’s dream of getting a better home for his mother is closer to becoming a reality.

A Brazilian man is dead and three others hospitalised following an accident on Friday night at 58 Miles, Mabura Road.