Bharrat Jagdeo News

Government has set an August 2010 deadline for all taxis to have one colour with easily identifiable and appropriate logos, promising a two-year waiver of licensing and radio frequency fees for those who comply early.

GUYANESE PRESIDENT Bharrat Jagdeo is facing calls for a public inquiry into security forces' tactics after a series of cases where cops allegedly tortured suspects during questioning.

Guyanaa s US$250M five-year forest preservation deal with Norway was yesterday hailed as a a oewatershed momenta in this countrya s history by President Bharrat Jagdeo who said it should be treated as a national achievement.

Six hundred and seventy-nine young people graduated from the Presidenta s Youth Award Republic of Guyana programme as it celebrated its 11th anniversary at a ceremony held two Saturdays ago at the National Cultural Centre.

OSLO: Norway agreed yesterday to pay Guyana up to $250m by 2015 to preserve forests in the South American nation as part of a scheme to slow climate change.

The teen who was tortured while in custody at the Leonora police station has told his mother that three ranks beat him while a fourth interrogated him.

The United States said it is helping Guyana track down a suspected mastermind in a series of domestic terror attacks, despite local concerns Washington is doing little to help, a US official said.

More than three years after he was slapped with drug trafficking charges in the US, retired army major David Clarke, who was expected to be one of the main witnesses in the Roger Khan trial, will be sentenced next month, according to court documents.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana a " Recent arson attacks and shootings in this violence-wracked South American nation are the work of a mastermind living in the United States, Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo alleged.Jagdeo made the allegation late Friday, shortly after his administration submitted a request to the U.S. Embassy for assistance with the ...

The new Turkish Ambassad-or to Guyana Nihat Akyol has said he will place focus on tourism and industry, after presenting his Letters of Credence to President Bharrat Jagdeo at a simple ceremony held in the Credentials Room of the Office of the President.

The suspects fingered in Wednesday's attacks continued to elude police up to yesterday while there were calls for support from the US and more answers from the police.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that his administration will soon make $2 billion available to assist a oevulnerable groupsa to acquire loans to build homes.

By Rickford Burke President of the Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy I join Guyana's former Attorney General, Bernard de Santos, Attorneys-at-Law Nigel Hughes, Raphael Trotman, Khemraj Ramjatan and 25 other prominent Attorneys, in strongly condemning the barbaric torture of the 14 year-old son of Ms Shirley Thomas, as well as the torture of ...

The Ministry of Agriculture has put in place fertilizer assistance for farmers as part of a $400M package.

The Private Sector Commis-sion yesterday issued a call for President Bharrat Jagdeo to set up an independent panel to investigate what has led to reported incidents of torture committed by police, including the recent brutalisation of a teen boy while in custody.

Left: In this June 2008 photo, Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce Karl Samuda is accompanied on a familiarisation tour of the JB Ethanol plant at Port Esquivel by John Carberry, plant manager, Robert Levy and Chris Levy.

There is no Freedom of Information legislation in Guyana. President Bharrat Jagdeo has said that he is not opposed in principle to such legislation but there is already a long list of laws to be drafted and promulgated and this is not a priority.

Police in Guyana said on Saturday two officers had been arrested over accusations of setting fire to a 14-year-old boy's genitals in a case creating an uproar in the South American nation.

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Guyana offers lowest cost option on carbon reduction a fungiblea TM product -President Jagdeo tells audiences at Trent, York and Toronto universities By Ron Cheong and Danny Doobay IN the climate change battle, a tonne of carbon reduction in Europe has exactly the same impact as of a tonne of carbon reduction in Guyana a ' it is completely ...