Guyana News

The GPSU said participants at the recently held Public Services International Hemispheric Committee Against Racism meeting were alarmed that the Guyana government had subjected some public sector workers to polygraph testing and dismissed them after the said exercise.

Seventeen-year-old Margaret Eastman of the Number 29 Primary School who placed among the top 10 in Region Five at this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination has her heart set on becoming a doctor.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A White House environmental  policy adviser who specialized in “green jobs” resigned yesterday after an uproar over his previous affiliation with a  Sept.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States accounted  for more than two-thirds of foreign weapons sales in 2008, a  year in which global sales were at a three-year low, The New  York Times reported yesterday.

Two hundred and sixty-eight youths from Regions Three and Four graduated last Friday with skills in a number of disciplines acquired under the National Training Project for Youth Empowerment (NTPYE) for which $75M was budgeted in 2009, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

BASEL, Switzerland, (Reuters) – Banks will have to  set aside more profits as a cushion against hard times and face  limits on how much debt they can run up under proposed new  global rules agreed by top central bankers and regulators yesterday.

Saying the challenge to his leadership was an example of democracy in action in the main opposition party, PNCR leader Robert Corbin has announced that efforts are ongoing to heal the divide after the recent Biennial Congress.

Students of the Gordon Table Primary School, Mahaicony Creek were disappointed when they turned out on Tuesday to find that the doors were closed and there was no teacher.

KABUL – Afghan President Hamid Karzai inched closer to a  first-round victory as more results came in from an election  last month marred by accusations of fraud.

Residents living close to the eroding section of the Kumaka waterfront in the Mabaruma Sub-Region, North West District are currently relocating from the area as authorities there have commenced plans to renovate the eroding landscape Region One Vice-Chairman, Paul Pierre told Stabroek News last week that an area has already been identified for the relocating residents, most of them vendors, to settle.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama plans to announce today that he has named a top Treasury  Department official, Ron Bloom, to lead an effort aimed at  revitalizing America’s hard-hit manufacturing industry.

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport last week convened a workshop for arrangers of steel-pan music in a bid to improve their musical skills in  adapting music to the various pans of a steel-band.

TEHRAN, (Reuters) – A leading Iranian reformer  accused hardliners of taking a “fascist” approach, as President  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s new cabinet prepared to hold its first  meeting after his disputed re-election in June.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Monday handed out bursary awards to 20 children of various staff members in honour of their achievements at the National Grade Six Assessment.

RIYADH, (Reuters) – Muslims should avoid prayers that  call for the destruction of non-Muslims, an influential Saudi  cleric said.

MARAD probe finds blue paint on green army boat – calls for forensic analysis aA Maritime Administration (MARAD) preliminary report into the Hog Island boat mishap, which left two people dead and a child missing, has confirmed that the army Coast Guard vessel had blue paint on its hull and has recommended a forensic analysis to determine its origin, a source close to the investigations said.

– banking on dry weather to boost cane farming GuySuCo is banking on dry weather and a reliable outsourcing contract with private operators to push land expansion at Skeldon and boost cane cultivation in the industry a bit earlier than its projected 2012 target, but there are no indications of a major change in strategy.

Head of the PNCR’s Human Services and Welfare Department Volda Lawrence said the party has “just a social partnership” with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, facilitating its humanitarian work in several communities for nearly a decade.

A distinct type of Guyanese cuisine is about to hit the restaurant scene in Trinidad and Tobago.

The Alliance for Change (AFC) said Amerindian Heritage Month should be used to reflect on the sterling contributions these persons have made in the social and economic sectors while ensuring their full involvement in national initiatives.