Guyana News

BERLIN (Reuters) – Ger-man voters gave Chancellor  Angela Merkel a second term on Sunday and a mandate to partner  with the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) in a government that  will rein in the role of the state in Europe’s largest economy.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Palestinian leaders warned  Israel on Sunday not to stoke tension in Jerusalem in the hope  of thwarting peace talks, after clashes at a sacred site in  which Palestinians and Israeli police were injured.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – William Safire, the former  speechwriter for Richard Nixon who won a Pulitzer Prize writing  columns on politics and language for The New York Times, died  yesterday, the newspaper said.

PORLAMAR, Venezuela (Reuters) – Venezuela’s  President Hugo Chavez proposed  yesterday that South American  and African nations unite to create a cross-continental mining  corporation to keep control of their resources.

PORLAMAR, Venezuela (Reuters) – Anti-imperialist  rhetoric and ambitious ideas flowed on Sunday at a summit  dominated by South America’s leftist leaders and some of  Africa’s best-known former anti-colonial fighters.

The bogus Inter-American Nursing School which was at the centre of a fraud scandal in January has reopened under a similar name, though its operations have not yet been approved by the National Accreditation Council of Guyana (NAC).

This is the last in a series of interviews with children who have been rescued by the Ministry of Human Services, which we are publishing in recognition of Child Protection Week.

Long lines during registration at the University of Guyana (UG) are quickly becoming a thing of the past as the institution has invested its meagre resources in achieving a friendlier student environment with a modernised Registry.

The screams of a young woman shattered the busy Water Street shopping area yesterday as she alerted the driver of a truck that its wheels had just run over a man.

After the withdrawal of several high-profile members over the current direction of the PNCR, party leader Robert Corbin on Friday disclosed that the establishment of a “meaningful resolution mechanism” is among the main opposition’s immediate plans.

The water company has embarked on an upgrading programme for Annandale community, which will benefit from pumps and motors to assist with its water supply, Minister of Housing and Water Irfaan Ali told residents last week.

As they continue to press for an international inquiry into government’s alleged links with a confessed drug trafficker, the opposition parties would be “flexible” on their participation when parliamentary work resumes.

LONDON (Reuters) – An illegal immigrant employed as a housekeeper by the British government’s chief legal adviser said in a newspaper interview today that her employer had  failed to check her passport before she was hired.

-residents nervous Talks of turning the Amerindian reservation of Orealla into Guyana’s next hottest tourist attraction dominated the village’s heritage celebrations but many residents questioned the advantages of such a move.

The Caribbean Community mourns the loss of three major literary figures in one week, saying their deaths have undoubtedly created a void in the continued development of the Region’s culture.

WASHINGTON/TEHRAN (Reuters) – US President  Barack Obama said yesterday the discovery of a secret nuclear  plant in Iran showed a “disturbing pattern” of evasion by  Tehran that added urgency to its talks on Thursday with world  powers.

MANILA (Reuters) – Nearly 60 people were killed,  Manila was blacked out and airline flights were suspended as a  powerful typhoon battered the main Philippines island of Luzon  yesterday, disaster officials said.

President Bharrat Jagdeo has challenged world leaders to reach a climate change deal in his address last week at the 64th session of the UN General Assembly at UN Headquarters in New York.

PORLAMAR, Venezuela (Reuters) – Venezuela’s  socialist President Hugo Chavez urged colleagues from Africa  and South America to help form a “multipolar” world yesterday  at a summit intended to counter Western economic dominance.

Moving on from a successful experiment at exporting wicker furniture to the international market, Praimroop Prasad of Samuel’s Wicker, Rattan and Upholstery Works is now turning to value-added forest products.