Guyana News

After an absence of two years, popular entertainer and story teller, Paul Keens Douglas returns for two performances at the National Cultural Centre on October 10 and 11.

Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green said that he is yet to meet the Local Government Minister as planned to discuss the findings of the Commission of Inquiry conducted by Keith Burrowes.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) has renewed its call for the PPP/C administration to honour its commitment to support the AFC’s Freedom of Information Bill that is currently awaiting parliamentary approval.

This is the fifth in a series of interviews with children who have been rescued by the Ministry of Human Services being published in recognition of Child Protection Week.

The PNCR is mourning the death of party activist Randolph Gordon, who died on Thursday evening after a brief illness.

A security officer attached to Guyana Power and Light Inc was remanded to prison when he appeared in the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court to answer a charge of simple larceny committed at the power company.

Members of the Guyanese Women in Development (Guywid) group in Berbice recently donated a quantity of books and other items to benefit children to the Amerindian Hostel in New Amsterdam.

The Chinese Sichuan Folk Art troupe is here again and set to thrill Guyanese audiences with aspects of their culture in the form of music, dance, magic and acrobatic displays.

The PNCR has added its voice in condemning President Bharrat Jagdeo for what it called persistent attacks on the media.

The Richard Ishmael Secondary School has recorded an overall pass rate percentage of 90.5% at grades 1-3 and 95% at grades 1-4 at the recently concluded Caribbean Secondary Examinations (CSEC).

A former student of New Amsterdam Technical Institute and his mother were each placed on a six-month bond by Magistrate Chandra Sohan yesterday following allegations of disorderly behaviour at the institution.

While criticising government’s silence on the alleged involvement of Office of the President (OP) spokesman Kwame McCoy in a case of child solicitation, the main opposition PNCR yesterday called for his removal from his official post pending an investigation.

PITTSBURGH (Reuters) – The Group of 20 rich and developing nations promised to give rising powers such as China more say in rebuilding and guiding the global economy, and declared their crisis-fighting efforts a success yesterday.

PORLAMAR, Venezuela (Reuters) – Washington’s foes Venezuela and Iran are working together to find uranium in the South American nation, a new sign of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s support for Tehran’s nuclear programme.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Clinton Global Initiative gathered more than $8 billion in pledges at this year’s summit, surprising its organizers who had worried that the recession would lower the level of support.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Susan Atkins, a leading member of Charles Manson’s violent cult who carried out brutal murders at his behest in 1969, has died in a California prison, state corrections officials said yesterday.

LONDON – The resignation of a senior British general exposed a widening rift between the military leadership and Prime Minister Gordon Brown over how the war in Afghanistan is being fought.

By Pamela CoxPamela Cox is the World Bank’s regional vice president for Latin America and the Caribbean For the first time in six years Latin America and the Caribbean will see its economy shrink this year.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) – Michael Jackson lost the will to live in recent years, a former close confidante said yesterday, as scores of fans camped out to be the first to see the singer’s final appearance in the This is It movie.

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya warned yesterday that tentative talks to end a three-month political crisis would go nowhere unless the de facto leaders who toppled him in a coup restored him to power.