Guyana News

Shortly before demitting office last year, former president Bharrat Jagdeo had written to Norway's Minister of the Environment and Development Cooperation, Erik Solheim, highlighting that there is still much to tackle in Guyana's forest partnership with Oslo including the sloth in money flows toA Guyana.

Coming from a musically-diverse family, Ngina Fayola has developed into an accomplished musician and is working towards furthering her career in music.

Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday admitted that the three newly-appointed African Guyanese ambassadors were "able professionals", who had been in the foreign service years before some of the others, when the $10 million libel suit filed by former president Bharrat Jagdeo continued.

The Globe to Globe Festival showcases the very best in world music as well as a range of dance and craft workshops, cuisine from around the globe, rides and entertainment.

Recently I talked with a visiting graduate student who is working on a media study, part of which has to do with "The changing role of newspapers in Jamaica". She told me she planned to focus on the nine months leading up to the Coke extradition as a turning point in the system.

Canamex Resources Corp. is pleased to report anomalous gold with values ranging up to 647 ppb Au in the stream sediment samples and pan concentrates from its Aranka North gold exploration project in Guyana, South America.

The girl who hails from the West Coast of Demerara was allegedly raped on Wednesday afternoon by the Anna Catherina man who has since been arrested by the police.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC - An Islamic scholar was on Thursday remanded to prison on charges of sexually abusing a boy at a Georgetown mosque, while police were expected to lay further charges in connection with other cases of sexual assault of young boys, who had attended the mosque for religious instruction, media reports said.

Citizens are advised that the La Nina phenomenon still persists over Guyana. This condition will persist until the end of March 2012.

The electricity supply in Berbice and Demerara, including in Georgetown, will be more reliable later this year with the construction of several substations and other system upgrades, Guyana Power and Light CEO Bharat Dindyal said yesterday.

I was recently in the North Rupununi region of Guyana looking for investment opportunities to help the region develop, but many Amerindian communities in Guyana are aware that I also submit reports on Human Rights issues to the United Nations and the Organization of American States - as well as for several local, regional and International media ... (more)

GEORGETOWN, Guyana &#8212 The European Union is giving Guyana a $39.5 million grant to boost sugar production and renovate factories in the South American country.

A community forest Moni-toring, Reporting and Verifi-cation project involving 16 villages of the North Rupununi, was launch-ed on Saturday in Annai, Region Nine.

Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment Robert Persaud met staff of the Guyana Gold Board at Bartica and mining officers and rangers at the Guyana Geology Mines and Commission substation in Region Seven to identify areas that need to be reviewed to boost their efficiency.

The new year has seen the arrival of three new doctors at Bladen County Hospital.

A Partnership for National Unity has condemned the sacking of UG lecturer and political scientist Freddie Kissoon, charging that it is a violation of academic freedom and press freedom.

The European Union has agreed to fund the construction of a small hydropower station on the Chiung River at Kato in Region Eight.

With no mining operations in the Haieka River, along which the communities of Chinoweing and Wax Creek are located, teams investigating fish deaths in the area did not test the water for mercury, the Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday.

The Jamaican Force Constabulary has told the Guyana Government that it will provide a full report by the end of this month on the DNA analysis of samples taken from Lindo Creek where eight miners were murdered in June 2008.

LAST month while many were preparing for the Christmas season, three Guyanese men left Trinidad aboard their boat and set sail for home.