Guyana News

The Guyana Bauxite & General Workers Union (GB&GWU) has reiterated that it expects the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) to hold a public enquiry following its January 4 complaint about “discrimination meted out to Bauxite Company Guyana Inc.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Four weeks after an  earthquake shattered its capital, Haiti remains in a precarious  situation with no clear idea of how to house 1 million people  living in the streets, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said  yesterday.

-says cops had nine months to grill him on Waddell, Allison The lawyer representing, ex policeman Lloyd Roberts says that the police’s decision to arrest his client minutes after two murder matters were discharged against him is unfair and is a “bad habit” that has been developed.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela yesterday awarded  the largest oil investment of President Hugo Chavez’s 11-year  rule, drawing tens of billions of dollars of  much-needed foreign finance to the Orinoco Belt just three  years after the leftist leader nationalized operations there.

The teenage boy who took a gun to school remained in police custody last evening as investigators await word from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) on the way forward.

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON,  (Reu-ters) – A second blizzard  in a week buried the U.S.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A Haitian judge has  decided to release 10 U.S.

The deepening of the regional integration movement, health issues and Haiti’s post-earthquake recovery were high on the agenda of the Caribbean Community Council of Ministers which opened here yesterday.

The fifteenth COHSOD meeting agreed to a timetable for the transition and implementation of the five Regional Health Institutions into one authority between 2010 and 2014 at its two-day meeting in Trinidad and Tobago last week.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A British woman was found guilty  of killing her lover by poisoning his curry because she could  not bear the thought of him marrying a younger rival.

Mings Products and Services Limited in association with Yamaha Motor Company Japan yesterday held a one day riders’ training programme for motorcyclists at the National Park.

LONDON, (Reuters Life!) – A devout Hindu declared  himself “overjoyed” yesterday after winning a court fight to  be allowed to be cremated in Britain on an open-air funeral  pyre.

Vendors operating at the new Water Street Mall will now have an opportunity to further market the facility following elections held yesterday to form an association.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Pakistan said yesterday it  had information suggesting Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah  Mehsud had died of wounds inflicted in a U.S.

TOKYO/DETROIT, (Reuters) – Honda Motor Co said it  would recall another 440,000 cars around the world for faulty  airbags as rival Toyota Motor Corp faced further probes over  its largest-ever safety crisis.

The Cellink KidStage says 11 children are set to enter the preliminary round of its Saturday morning workshops at the Theatre Guild.

About this Publication This 2010 Focus on Guyana’s National Budget marks twenty years since Ram & McRae began this annual publication which highlights, reviews and comments on the major issues surrounding and raised in the National Budget.

The Minister estimated global decline of 0.8% in 2009 compared to 3% growth in 2008, attributed to weak demand in the world’s larger markets, and decline in trade volumes affecting developed and developing economies alike.

During 2009, thirty-five out of forty-nine Bills tabled in the National Assembly were passed, while three additional Bills from 2008 and one from 2007 also found their place onin the statute books.

Every year, Focus tracks the implementation of the key issues and policies identified in previous Budget Speeches.