Guyana News

Bharrat Jagdeo The policies of some developed countries will make meeting the 2015 Millennium Development Goals target date difficult for developing countries, President Bharrat Jagdeo said yesterday.

Permanent secretaries and heads of project units may be removed from their posts for not carrying ... I would have wished that we had a different situation but this is the reality of life in Guyana.4

Some of the passengers at Universal's office yesterday demanding answers ... Shaw said he was scheduled to leave Guyana for Trinidad on August 29 to purchase medication for a sick family member.4

Guyana will begin producing ethanol from sugarcane with help from Brazil in an effort to reduce its dependence on expensive fuel imports, an official said.

There has been an increase in the number of complaints about abuse against indigenous people and in order for this to change Guyanese have to work together.4

A judge on Thursday ordered the release of a Dutch teenager held in the disappearance of an Alabama honors student, but the teen remains a suspect, the defense attorney said.1.7

Trinidadian Qaseeda singer Bro Mohammed Siddiq Ali copped the first prize and took away the challenge trophy at the Fourth International Qaseeda Competition held in Guyana recently.2.7

Kaleb Roberts was just three months along in his mother's womb when Walker received an e-mail last fall from Wendy and Gary Roberts in Georgetown, Guyana.

As part of an earlier wave of Guyanese who made the painful decision to leave my beloved country some 20 years ago, please allow me to share my two cents regarding the Guyanese situation in Barbados.2.7

Minister of Home Affairs Gail Teixeira says that she is saddened by the shooting to death of Delon ... She is appealing to the Guyanese public to remain calm and not to use or be used to create instability in the country.2.7

Minerva II docked at the John Fernandes Wharf, Port Georgetown, at 06:45 hrs with 550 tourists, ... I read in the Guyana.2.7

By Richard Smith at the Old Bailey A MOTHER demanded financial compensation last night after a Suffolk policeman was found guilty of shooting her son dead.

Progress under the UK-funded Management Contract for the Guyana Water Incorporated has been slow and the reasons include strained relations between the Board of Directors of GWI and Severn Trent , the UK ...4

As we know, this year is the 25th anniversary of the death of Dr. Walter Rodney, of one of the most promising contemporary world emancipators of African descent ... who was brutally nipped in the bud by a ...2.7

Visiting Guyanan Prime Minister Samuel Hinds said Tuesday in Shanghai that his visit to China offered him an opportunity to see the great development Chinese people have achieved in the past decade.2.7

The Guyana Elections Com-mission yesterday opened a five-day programme to train staff recruited for offices set up across the country as it prepares for the continuous voter registration process due to begin ...4

ELCA NEWS SERVICE July 15, 2005 Higher Numbers Of New ELCA Missionaries In 2005 05-130-KB* CHICAGO ... Shelly Satran and Sylvia Countess will be serving their first calls in Guyana, Senegal, Costa Rica, Haiti and in the West Bank of Israel, respectively.

This as heads acknowledge the current crisis in West Indies Cricket and the danger it poses to the hosting of World Cup 2007.1.3

Over 20 persons will be presenting papers at a conference being hosted by the Guyana Geology and Mines Com-mission as part of activities for the observance of Mining Week which started yesterday and concludes ...4.2

Miami Herald Jim Defede reports that the party lasted well into the night. Raymond Persaud's friends and relatives had gathered at the family home in Georgetown, Guyana, to wish him well on his new adventure.2.7

While many teens are eager to relax during their week-long March Break, five Innisfil girls left the country to volunteer their time and efforts to poverty-stricken children.2.7

The Guyana Bar Association recently held its annual general meeting and elected attorney-at-law Joseph Harmon as its new head.4

COME MAY 1, it will be a year since businesswoman Pat Isaacs-Green became the sole owner of the popular New Kingston sports bar and grill, JamRock.2.7

We Don't Want to Be No. 2 The Glass Ceiling's Iron Girders You've Come the Wrong Way, Baby Vital Signs for the Week of Mar.

The Belize Students' Association of the University of Guyana recently mounted an exhibition highlighting various aspects of Belizean culture, the economy and environment.4

CARIBBEAN talents flowed freely for flood victims and friends in To Guyana With Love Saturday night.2.7

Or attribute it to the subject's enormity: Jagan's life story is so much larger than life, it's almost too cinematic for cinema.

The police in Berbice have made little progress to date in investigating three recent murders in and around New Amsterdam over the past month.2.7

Opening batsman Ryan Ramdass hit his third hundred for the season as Guyana made hay while the sun shone on the third day of their eighth-round match in the Carib Beer 2005 Cricket Series against Barbados at ...2.7

The unusually heavy rainfall that has pounded Colombia, Guyana and Venezuela over the past few weeks has left more than 80 dead, 100 missing, 100,000 families homeless, wiped out a number of bridges and caused ...2.7

What was initially a successful venture for Georgetown-based businessman Damion Da Silva turned ... Da Silva said he had been forced to catch the minibus out of Lethem as he had missed the flight to Georgetown as a result of a delay at the Lethem Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Office.4

By Margaret Wertheim, Margaret Wertheim writes the Quark Soup science column for the LA Weekly.