Guyana News

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of climate  activists marched in Copenhagen yesterday to urge negotiators  at UN talks to agree a strong treaty to fight global warming  but violence marred a rally that began as a carnival.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Critics said the 2003 US  invasion of Iraq said was driven by oil, but United States oil  majors were largely absent from an Iraqi auction of oil deals  snapped up instead by Russian, Chinese and other firms.

HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe  was yesterday endorsed to lead his ZANU-PF party for another  five years and vowed to resist demands by his opponents to  reform the country’s security forces.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The presidents of Russia and the  United States agreed yesterday to extend talks to secure a new  pact to cut vast arsenals of nuclear weapons, the Kremlin said yesterday.

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – More than 250 million people  risk losing their livelihoods because of dying tropical coral  reefs in what a senior UN environmental economist said   yesterday was part of a double climate crisis facing the world.

There was nation-wide shock yesterday at the sudden passing of Junior Education Minister Dr.

Six Guyanese, convicted in the biggest drug bust in Barbados’ history, were yesterday collectively sentenced to a historic 428 years in prison for the 28 drug offences for which they were found guilty earlier this year.

Public service employees will be getting a 6% retroactive pay increase for this year, Head of the President Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon announced yesterday.

People’s Progressive Party stalwart Brindley Benn, CCH, the father of Public Works Minister Robeson Benn, died yesterday after a brief illness.

After two days of extensive searches, the hunt for the body of the dead miner Michael Leslie, suspected to have drowned in a gorge below the Kaieteur Falls, was terminated on Wednesday afternoon.

-talks ongoing on performance incentive GuySuCo said sugar workers will be paid wage increases from January 1, 2010 and also announced yesterday that efforts are being made to honour retroactive payments as soon as possible.

A Diamond, East Bank Demerara man lost his life after the Canter truck he was travelling in slammed into a concrete fence at Number 4 Village, West Berbice yesterday morning.

The Rights of Children (ROC) on Tuesday yesterday launched “Everyday Or-deals”, a kit to confront sexual harassment in Guyanese schools at the National Library Auditorium on Church Street.

A gun, which was stolen from a licensed firearm holder in November, was discovered by police on Wednesday in an alley at North East La Penitence.

– Kartel’s crew touch down More than half of the members of the Portmore Empire, more popularly known as the ‘Gaza Empire,’ arrived yesterday for the ‘Keep the Peace Concert’ scheduled for the National Park tonight.

A Parika man and his son were remanded to prison on Thursday for carnal knowledge of a 13-year-old girl.

As part of a campaign to ensure the consumption of wholesome food items, the Government Analyst Food & Drug Administration (FDA) seized a quantity of expired good from shops and supermarkets in West Berbice.

A Digicel sales clerk was robbed of more than $100,000 as well as cellular phones and phone cards Wednesday afternoon at Enmore.

COPENHAGEN, (Reuters) – A draft climate pact unveiled  yesterday revived hopes that U.N.

COPENHAGEN, (Reuters) – China yesterday attacked a  top U.S. envoy as either “extremely irresponsible” or lacking in  common sense, for saying at a global summit to tackle warming  that no U.S.