Guyana News

New search for Ricky comes up empty A search yesterday for missing 10-year-old Ricky Jainarine, prompted by a hunter who reported seeing a bag with what appeared to be human remains at the beach at Wakenaam, found  nothing.

GuySuCo has found temporary relief to its cash flow problems and is expected to pay sugar workers their outstanding salaries for this week, on Monday. 

The Alliance of Change is calling on Russian company RUSAL to reinstate the dismissed workers of the Russian owned Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc.

VSO volunteers as well as others from international organisations are expected to converge today at the Central Georgetown Bus Park near Stabroek Market to join a special campaign to emphasise that persons with disabilities have a ‘Right to Ride’ public transport.

-Canadian Commissioner Canada recognises the Caribbean as an investment friendly region, while viewing potential in Guyana’s natural resources, according to Canadian High Commissioner Francois Montour.

-after DPP withdraws charges Deonarine Rafick, the man charged with the murder of retired Region Three Vice-Chairman Ramenauth Bisram, was freed on Wednesday, two weeks after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) withdrew proceedings against him.

-authorities following tip-offs Three schoolgirls were found in a house with men during school hours on Thursday at West Berbice, just two days after schoolmates were found in a similar position a few villages away.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – China and other major emerging  economies will not allow international supervision of their  actions to slow climate change to be part of a deal at U.N. 

-music school promised for next year The Ministry of Education in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport yesterday launched the National Schools’ Choir and Steel Orchestra at the National Park.

TURIN, Italy, (Reuters) – A jailed Mafia hitman told a  court yesterday that a godfather convicted of a 1993 bombing  campaign had boasted to him of his links to Italian Prime  Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Residents of the Diamond Housing Scheme now have potable water running to their homes following the commissioning of a well in the community yesterday.

More job losses and a drop in remittances hit Linden this year but the business community remains upbeat about prospects for holiday shopping.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil has announced its first  projects from a new foreign-financed fund to help protect the  Amazon forest and fight climate change, days before developing  nations seek more aid at a U.N.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – At least 94 people were killed and  139 injured yesterday when a blast caused by fireworks ripped  through a packed Russian nightclub, causing a stampede, the  Emergencies Ministry said.

-pledge support for developing nations The heads of the leading international financial institutions on Wednesday called for a comprehensive agreement to combat climate change at the upcoming Copenhagen conference and agreed to further coordinate their own efforts to help achieve the meeting’s ambitious goals.

PERUGIA, Italy, (Reuters) – An Italian court convicted  American student Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend  Raffaele Sollecito early today of murdering British  student Meredith Kercher in a drunken sex game.

A message from the  International  Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in celebration of International Volunteer Day, today, urges that special tribute be paid to those volunteers  who have been injured  or lost their lives in the past year in the service of humanity.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited has announced three new management appointments with Randulph Sears as Officer-in-Charge of the Linden Branch, Mrs.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. employers cut far fewer  jobs than expected last month in the best showing for the  labor market since the recession began, lifting the  beleaguered U.S.

The latest edition of ‘Guyana – Where and What,’ a mini-tourist guide, was launched yesterday.