Guyana News

A group of Linden Rastafarians are calling for a national holiday on July 23, 2010 in recognition of the birth anniversary of their king Haile Selassie I.

Women’s groups in indigenous communities are soon to benefit from training in conflict resolution and negotiation skills, conducted by the Rural Women’s Network (RWN).

A 23-year-old man is dead and another injured after the motorcycles that they were riding collided at the Lethem Airstrip road on Saturday night.

The Bagotville Post Office which is undergoing rehabilitation works has been temporarily  relocated to the La Grange/Nismes Neighbourhood Democratic Council compound.

EL PARAISO, Honduras, (Reuters) – Disheartened  supporters of Manuel Zelaya trickled home from the Nicaraguan  border yesterday and the ousted Honduran president complained  that U.S.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India launched yesterday its  first nuclear-powered submarine capable of firing ballistic  missiles, completing a nuclear triad encompassing land, air and  sea, officials said.

KUWAIT, (Reuters) – A brash Kuwaiti financier  facing a fraud suit by U.S.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – The sharp trade contraction  during the economic crisis, closely matching the trend in the  1930s, has triggered widespread fears that the world could  suffer a re-run of the destructive protectionism of that era.

By Janette Bulkan (This is the first in a 10-part series)This series of articles is intended to look at some of the issues surrounding Guyana’s bid for funds from the World Bank-administered Forest Carbon Partnership Fund (FCPF) and from Norway, and for the President’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS). 

– five new faces on AFC executive committee Raphael Trotman has been re-elected unopposed as leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC), which has pledged to work for the creation of a united front for the next general elections.

– Corbin, Murray, Norton, Armstrong and Van West Charles named Incumbent Robert Corbin, MPs Winston Murray and Aubrey Norton, party executive Dr Aubrey Armstrong and former health minister Dr Richard Van West Charles are among nominees for leader of the PNCR, as it sets out to chart a course forward.

Declaring open the $140 million National Ophthalmology Centre at Port Mourant, Corentyne yesterday Presi-dent Bharrat Jagdeo said that government’s first priority is to provide better health services to residents.

Fire set to a garbage heap damaged a Caterpillar engine and two fuel tanks at the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Sophia station yesterday after remnants ended up in a drain holding waste oil from company’s operations.

– police say they were self-inflicted Heston Bostwick, who turned himself into the police for questioning on Friday, with regard to a previously undisclosed investigation, was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday with stab wounds to the chest.

The police are investigating a shooting incident which occurred at about 5 pm yesterday in which Dexter Whyte 29, of Hadfield Street Lodge was shot and injured by an armed police rank who was on duty at the time.

Over the last six to eight months, the Guyana Tele-phone and Telegraph company (GT&T) has lost appropriately US$2 million in revenue through international calls that have bypassed the company’s network, Chief Financial Officer Yog Mahadeo says.

– struggling aunt takes them in Kerry Edwards, 13 and her 16-year-old cousin, Samantha Charles whose necks were slashed during an attack at Ithaca, West Bank Berbice on May 8 this year in which Kerry’s mother, Gertrude Edwards, 31, was killed are both on the road to recovery.

President Bharrat Jagdeo hosted a meeting on Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) with ranks and officers of the Guyana Defence Force at Camp Ayanganna on Thursday.

With Guyanese seemingly lacking consciousness of copyright, a group of young artists is hoping to raise awareness of the importance of this and has begun its campaign by putting advertisements in the newspapers.

A person or persons unknown stole a boat with a 40-horsepower Yamaha outboard engine valued $650,000 belonging to the Regional Democratic Council, Region Five on Friday night at Wash Clothes, Mahaicony Creek and only the boat was recovered yesterday morning.