Guyana News

-farmers point to flooding, pests Stakeholders in the local coconut industry were urged to examine their options as they raised their concerns about the sub-sector at a workshop on Tuesday.

The United  States Embassy in Georgetown on Wednesday said it wished to remind all Guyanese citizens travelling to the United States that each person, including minor children, must present their own valid passport to the immigration officer at the U.S.

Health Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy recently signed a US$5M contract for the construction of a modern health bond for the sector.

Government yesterday confirmed the sacking of several employees of law enforcement agencies who have failed polygraph tests, saying it has encouraged them to handle the failures the same way as  when several Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) employees were fired last year.

The actual sum allocated to the Guyana Women’s Leadership Institute (GWLI) at  Cove and John, East Coast Demerara for 2009 is $8M.

-GINA A Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) consultation which  engaged residents from Ituni, Kwakwani and its environs on Wednesday attracted the second largest attendance of the four sessions held jointly by the Guyana Forestry Commis-sion (GFC) and the Forest Products Association (FPA),  bettered only by the one held in Georgetown.

“I steal it your worship because I de hungry and dem didn’t want lend me $200 to buy food before me start work with dem,” a man, ordered to pay a $25,000 fine or serve three months imprisonment for stealing bearings, said yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Bill  Clinton and drugmakers Pfizer and Matrix Laboratories Ltd  announced a deal yesterday to lower the cost of treatments  for patients with drug-resistant forms of HIV/AIDS.

Motorbike duo in stable conditionThe motorcyclist and pillion rider who sustained injuries after colliding with a minibus along the La Grange Public Road, West Bank Demerara on Tuesday evening are in stable condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A group of Venezuelan clients  of Stanford Financial Group have sued the insurance broker  Willis Group Holdings Ltd, accusing it of contributing to a $7  billion Ponzi scheme at the Texas-based investment company  founded by Allen Stanford.

SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – Twitter and Facebook said  they suffered service problems from hacker attacks yesterday,  raising speculation of a coordinated campaign against the  world’s most popular online social networks.

“All I asking for is a two months, my worship,” a man, who broke and entered a food stall with intent to steal, told Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry shortly before she handed him an 18-month sentence.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – A presidential visit  followed by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s African  tour cannot conceal a stark reality: China has overtaken the  United States as Africa’s top trading partner.

A second man has been remanded to prison for allegedly stealing US$10,000 from another after promising to get a US visa for him.

The scheduled sub-national consultations on the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) have been completed, the LCDS Multi-Stakeholder Steering Committee said on Wednesday.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio  Lula da Silva told his Colombian counterpart yesterday  Bogota’s decision to allow an increase in U.S.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – A court yesterday sentenced to  death three Indians found guilty of conspiring with a  Pakistan-based militant group to carry out serial blasts in  Mumbai in 2003 that killed at least 54 people, officials said.

Enhancement works have commenced in Tucville, Agricola and Cummings Lodge with the help of residents.

Persons who wish to have the Mayor and City Council’s (M&CC) records reflect a change of the name of a property must submit a certified copy of the transport or lease.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – There is a strong likelihood  that Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud was killed along  with his wife and bodyguards in a missile attack two days ago,  Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik told Reuters.