Guyana News

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A new fund being developed by the World Bank would pay developing countries hundreds of millions of dollars for protecting and replanting tropical forests, which store huge amounts of carbon that causes climate change.

Guyana is to record its first two open-heart surgeries today at the Caribbean Heart Institute (CHI) which had promised to pioneer the major medical intervention this year.

The New Building Society (NBS) $69M fraud case yesterday took a dramatic turn as four more persons appeared in court in the matter and charges were reinstituted against three former senior managers so that they will appear together with the quartet.

On Monday the first set of patients will be able to access the East Bank Demerara Regional Hospital which was officially opened by President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday at Diamond.

The World Bank’s Board of Directors on Thursday approved a US$3.8M ($760M) grant to support governmental efforts to reduce Guyana’s vulnerability from catastrophic flooding.

Stabroek News yesterday announced that it would be staging a peaceful picketing exercise on Monday outside the meeting of the Common-wealth Finance Ministers at the Guyana International Conference Centre, Turkeyen in relation to the withdrawal of advertisements by the Guyana Government.

Some delegates for the Commonwealth Finance Ministers Meeting (CFMM) have found themselves without their luggage after arriving here on LIAT flights.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) will from today embark on a massive disconnection drive to further cut commercial losses and it acknowledged that it was walking a “thin line” on generation but that 10 MWs of relief power should be available on November 19.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has expressed dissatisfaction that many serious issues with human rights implications remain unresolved, often for years.

The driver of the Linden bus involved in the horrific crash on Wednesday night which claimed the lives of 10 persons has told relatives he had not seen the log-filled truck which he slammed into as he was blinded by the headlamps of an approaching vehicle.

A 10-year-old boy who was returning home from the shop after purchasing alcoholic beverages during school hours was among 85 truants picked up during a three-day “Operation Care” campaign in Region Five.

The police are investigating the circumstances under which a man was found with a gunshot wound in the chest last night at Agricola, East Bank Demerara.

Jamaica is to continue to import rice from Guyana and officials from the island nation have no intention of importing extra regional rice at the expense of CARICOM and Guyana supplies.

The capacity of the University of Guyana (UG) health sciences faculty has received a boost through sustained provision of assistance under the Canadian International Development Agency’s funded Public Health Strengthening in Guyana Project (PHSG).

The People’s Progressive Party in extending Eid Mubarak greetings observed that the month of fasting served as a reminder that “millions of our brothers and sisters are still suffering in the world.”

President of the Central Isla-mic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) Fazeel Ferouz said in an Eid-Ul-Fitr message that the holy month of Ramadan was a training ground to reawaken everyone physically, morally and spiritually.

Government intends to improve farming areas including the front lands of Black Bush Polder (BBP) and to redevelop agricultural activities by constructing a $250M drying floor, in the area.

The Inter-religious Organisa-tion of Guyana says that the month of Ramadan is a period of tremendous sacrifices to enhance the spirituality of the individual which in reality is for the betterment of all mankind.

The great faith of Islam has contributed much to Guyana’s religious diversity and is an integral part of our cultural landscape, the Alliance For Change (AFC) says.

The Guyana Islamic Forum in extending Eid Mubarak greetings observed that those who kept the fast were “given the chance to ride on the path of saintliness” and the period of fasting and the abstention from normally acceptable human behaviour could only help in developing godly characteristics in man.