Guyana News

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s voodoo priests  are objecting to anonymous mass burials as an improper way to handle the tens of thousands of dead from the earthquake — and  have taken their complaint to President Rene Preval.

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud has said that Guyana is pursuing the strategic management of water and so it is crucial to decrease water wastage and increase its conservation.

The Men Empowerment Network (MEN) is observing National Men’s Week with a roster of activities set to start from today aimed at engaging and enabling men to fulfil their roles in the family as well as in society.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s cabinet met yesterday. On a bench and some plastic chairs in an open-air yard.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – World leaders pledged  aid to rebuild a devastated Haiti, but on the streets of its  wrecked capital earthquake survivors were still waiting today for the basics: food, water and medicine.

One-year old Nicholas Ramnauth was a child who brought lots of joy to his family, but his life ended tragically yesterday after he fell into a septic tank in the yard of his Lot 504 Kaneville, East Bank Demerara home.

It gets dark early in the South Rupununi and for many people the darkness signals bedtime.

Bandits shot and wounded a pastor last night after he saw them robbing three men across the street from his home.

By Cathy Richards A Linden family is seeking compensation for a nerve injury a five-year-old boy sustained while he was being treated by a nurse at the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC) for an unrelated ailment.

A mining deal involving Presidential Advisor on Empowerment, Odinga Lumumba and the GGMC continues to raise ethical questions including whether there was a conflict of interest from the outset, and the propriety of President Bharrat Jagdeo’s intervention.

– in functioning as insurance commissioner Six months after taking over the functions of the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance, the Bank of Guyana (BoG) is finding the dearth of expertise in the insurance field a challenge to its operations, its Governor Lawrence Williams says.

– alliance with either PPP or PNC would mean ‘death’ With upcoming local government elections likely to be a key test of the AFC’s strength, party Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan says it has widened its constituency to become an equal player in national politics.

A father is agonising over the fate of his three-year-old daughter, who was molested allegedly by a relative, as he believes she may be further harmed since she was returned to the same environment.

Fifteen representatives at the policy-making level began meeting on Friday to discuss a Disaster Damage Assessment and Needs Analysis (DANA) system for Guyana.

Another man’s body was fished out of the Sussex Street Canal in the vicinity of the La Penitence Market yesterday morning, but was unidentified up to press time.

In the continuing efforts to raise funds for the victims of earthquake ravaged Haiti, the School of the Nations and the Varqua Foundation yesterday raised $300,000 through a car wash initiative.

Shoppers in the Stabroek Market area scampered for cover yesterday just before noon when police fired shots behind a fleeing man who was earlier caught with a toy gun.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – President Barack Obama  on Saturday declared one of the largest relief efforts in US  history to help Haiti’s earthquake victims as survivors begged  for aid still only trickling through to them and looters fought  in the streets.

Guyana should learn from the recent tragic events in Haiti and review its own disaster preparedness strategy, the PNCR says.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Secretary of State  Hillary Clinton assured Haiti’s quake-ravaged people yesterday the United States would work with their government to  ensure the country emerges “stronger and better” after this  week’s disaster.