Guyana News

As ways of assigning a monetary value to climate services provided by forests continue to be examined, a project being implemented at the Iwokrama International Centre (IIC) is said to be moving slowly, more than a year after a ground-breaking agreement was signed.

While he is satisfied with “having been given the protection of the court”, Devroy Thomas, the chief of Arau says that the refusal of the other reliefs sought by residents of the Amerindian community in a constitutional motion shows that much work remains to be done.

Over 50 children from several villages in West Berbice were recently treated to a trip at the Jubilee Resort at Timehri, courtesy of the Aditya Foundation (AF) of Bath Settlement.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – With a quarter-century civil war in  the history books, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa will  now put to the test his theory of using a military victory over  terrorism as the first step to tackling its root causes.

TEHRAN, (Reuters) – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  said yesterday Iran had tested a missile that defense  analysts say could hit Israel and U.S.

– nine-year report DUBLIN, (Reuters) – Priests beat and raped children  during decades of abuse in Catholic-run institutions in Ireland,  an official report said yesterday, but it stopped short of  naming the perpetrators.

MAGETAN, Indonesia, (Reuters) – An Indonesian  military transport plane carrying 110 passengers and crew  crashed and burst into flames in East Java yesterday,  killing at least 98 people on board and on the ground,  officials said.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Railway authorities in Mumbai  tore down the shanty home of another “Slumdog Millionaire”  child star yesterday, barely a week after a first child actor from the Oscar-winning film was forced into the streets.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian President Alvaro Uribe  is edging closer to a shot at a third term next year, but any  bid must still clear many obstacles, including the question  whether he even wants to run for re-election.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Former U.S. President  Bill Clinton’s role as U.N.

BAGHDAD,0 (Reuters) – The death toll from a parked car  bomb near a popular restaurant in northwest Baghdad rose to 35  yesterday, and the number of wounded rose to 72, police said.

Marian Academy, School of the Nations trump rivals Marian Academy and School of the Nations conquered their rivals Cummings Lodge Secondary and President’s College (PC) respectively when competition continued on Thursday in the GBTI Inter-Secondary School Impromptu Speech contest.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Rhythm and blues singer Natalie Cole, who has been battling Hepatitis C, received a new  kidney in Los Angeles and is resting comfortably, her  spokeswoman said yesterday.

PNCR leader Robert Corbin will be seeking re-election as head of the main opposition, a senior party executive says.

Five men yesterday appeared before Acting Chief Magis-trate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer the charge of conspiracy to commit a felony.

-accused them of stealing money Narad Sookoo and Tomeshwar Doobay, the Guyanese construction workers who were executed in Trinidad, may have been killed over money they were accused of stealing from a businessman they worked with, according to the Trinidad Guardian.

The European Commission on Monday cancelled sugar support for Fiji after the Pacific island’s military government refused to hold post-coup elections this year and extended a crackdown on media and critics.

-relying on statement during budget debate Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee yesterday said he was not “prepared to comment” on allegations made about the Georgetown Prison being short of staff.

Police arrest three ‘[It] is like a ghost-town; the shops closing early and everyone going indoors early’ The police last night announced that three men have been held following the deadly rampage at Chesney, Corentyne on Saturday night.

The minibus driver involved in the accident that resulted in the death of 3-year-old Ariel Sahoye in February has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving and his licence suspended.