Guyana News

Japan has pledged a total of US$70million in aid to support current relief and recovery efforts in Haiti.

BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Chinese state media blasted the United States yesterday for a planned $6.4 billion arms package for Taiwan but US officials said they hoped the flap would be temporary and not derail cooperation.

The Guyana Rastafari Council and Rastafarian Community of Guyana will host a benefit concert for Haiti on Saturday and the proceeds are expected to be channelled through the national relief effort.

Veteran male vocalist Kamta Persaud emerged the winner of the Melody King Singing Competition held on Saturday at the Wales Community Centre Ground.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim went on trial today on charges of sodomy for the second time in a decade in a case that was being closely watched by foreign embassies.

Amid a row between the government and miners over a six-month notice period, the associations representing prospectors and foresters have agreed there is no real land use conflict between them.

A three-year-old boy was admitted a patient at the Fort Wellington Hospital on Saturday after he was brutally beaten by a relative and later reportedly abandoned at the home of an aunt at Blairmont, West Bank Berbice.

Police detained a MMC security guard following the fatal shooting of an unidentified man early yesterday morning on Eping Avenue.

By Cathy Richards She was seven months pregnant. No less. But Antigua-based Guyanese, Tomeka Thomas did not let this hinder her stage performance as she set the Mackenzie Sports Club alight to secure her spot in the finals of the 2010 Soca Monarch competition in Linden on Saturday.

-four arrestedBandits pounced on a Mahaica businessman on Saturday night, beating and robbing him of $3M.

The Ministry of Agriculture’s Musa Disease Management Unit has commenced an intensified spraying exercise  to deal with a disease affecting banana and plantain farms located at Zeelugt West and Tuschen Backdam in Region Three.

AFC leader Raphael Trotman is urging the withdrawal of the proposal for a six-month notice before mining can commence, while saying he is concerned that the government is on a trajectory to stifle both the existing forestry and mining sectors, which could put over 50,000 out of work.

– 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.