Guyana News

…as ultimatum draws to an end Secretary General of the Organisation of American States, Jose Miguel Insulza travels to Honduras today to press the interim government on restoring power to ousted President Manuel Zelaya, but Insulza said firmly yesterday that they “are not going to negotiate”.

President Bharrat Jagdeo on Monday met with representatives of the Clinton Foundation who praised the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) document and his leadership on climate change.

The Rio Group has strongly condemned the coup d’etat perpetrated in the Republic of Honduras and reaffirms its support of the constitutional president of that country Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales.

A 52-year-old real estate agent accused of stealing from Brains Watch World was yesterday placed on $20,000 bail when she appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer the charge of simple larceny.

A Roraima Airways plane, transporting six passengers, yesterday morning skidded off a wet airstrip in Essequibo but no one was hurt.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil wants historic  emissions to be the basis for greenhouse gas pollution targets,  slated for discussion during December climate talks in  Copenhagen, Brazil’s top climate negotiator said in an  interview.

PARIS, (Reuters) – The Air France plane that crashed  into the Atlantic last month hit the water intact and at high  speed but was missing for six hours before an emergency was  declared, French investigators said yesterday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – An Indian court yesterday  ruled gay sex was not a crime, a verdict that will bolster  demands by gay and health groups that the government scrap a  British colonial law which bans homosexual sex.

SIRTE, Libya, (Reuters) – African Union foreign  ministers yesterday voted to suspend cooperation with the  International Criminal Court over its indictment of Sudanese  President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, a delegation member said.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. government said yesterday it will give 420,000 treatment courses of Tamiflu to  the Pan-American Health Organization to help fight the new H1N1  influenza virus in Latin America and the Caribbean.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – An Ecuadorean judge ordered the  arrest of a former Colombian official involved in a 2008  bombing raid carried out in Ecuador, but Bogota refused to  recognize his jurisdiction, intensifying cross-border  diplomatic tensions.

Amid stinging criticism of its new immigration policy, Barbados is prepared to consider the readmission of persons who have overstayed their time through a protocol or memorandum of understanding but will not swerve from its current policy to regularize undocumented Caricom nationals.

Four years later harmonization of policies seen as major hindrance Regional harmonization of policies is hampering the progress of the Jagdeo Initiative, which is moving slowly and more needs to be done to hasten the process, officials say.

Slow progress has been made in overcoming constraints to regional agriculture, Adviser to the Regional Transformation Programme for Agriculture in the Caribbean Community (Caricom) Secretariat, Sam Lawrence recently said.

-market-led approach being cultivated As the government seeks to build a “new agriculture”, several projects underway will modernize local farming with the results expected to be seen in three to five years.

(Reprinted from the April 21 edition of SN) Using advanced agricultural technologies to cultivate non-traditional crops, Greenfield Farms is at the forefront of revolutionizing local farming practices to boost overseas exports.

Farmers of Number 30 Village and other areas were enthused to learn about an Integrated Farming System (IFS) technique that can help to improve their livelihood, reduce cost and at the same time produce biogas.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday remanded to prison a 23-year-old crop farmer, who is accused of murdering the 10-year-old boy whose remains were discovered in a shallow grave at Maikwak, Upper Potaro two weeks ago.

Tony Marks, the 42-year-old man accused of murdering a nine-year-old girl at Parika, East Bank Essequibo back in 2007 was freed after the case against him was discharged at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

–officials urge health ministry to actFour deaths and several sick people have led to officials in Region One (Barima/Waini) calling for urgent assistance from the Ministry of Health and a team is to visit the area shortly.