Guyana News

The  just-concluded Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) in St George’s, Grenada has endorsed the Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy and Action Plan, the CARICOM Secretariat at Turkeyen said in a press release.

* Recent growth in Web piracy fuels counterfeit trade *  Reuters reporter buys fake bag on website to trace  problem * Journalists in China uncover secret leather workshops * Buyers across world found at illegal market in Guangzhou * Frustration over piracy fuels US trade tensions with  China WASHINGTON/GUANGZHOU, China, (Reuters) – Anybody  could tell right away that the Louis Vuitton shoulder bag was  fake because it was delivered in a recycled box that once  shipped batteries.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A last-minute deal among G20  nations to give emerging economies more voting power at the IMF  was made possible when the United States abandoned efforts to  link the shift to trade balance targets, sources said yesterday.

A man accused of stealing another’s bicycle was yesterday placed on $25,000 bail when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – At 78, author V.S. Naipaul’s  traveling days are over.

Minister within the Ministry of Health, Dr. Bheri Ramsaran yesterday refuted claims in an October 26  Kaieteur News article that the CC Nicholson Hospital has been hit by a doctor shortage.

KUNDUZ, Afghanistan,  (Reuters) – Part of a building  collapsed on a wedding party in Afghanistan’s northern Baghlan  province yesterday, killing about 60 people, the Afghan Red  Crescent said.

Land Settlement State-sponsored land settlement schemes have been central to the post-immigration demographic transition of coastland. 

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will  push hard for U.S.

The Inter-American Insti-tute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) said the official closing and prize giving ceremony of the Secondary Schools Hydroponics Competition will be held today.

JAKARTA, Indonesia, (Reuters) – A tsunami and a  volcanic eruption in Indonesia have killed more than 300 people  with over 400 missing and tens of thousands displaced,  authorities said yesterday.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds recently visited the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) at Onderneeming, Essequibo, Region Two, and toured the facility where he reviewed  its general development, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported on Tuesday.

President Bharrat Jagdeo will meet with the retrenched Barama Company Limited workers on Monday in an attempt to offer them transitional assistance.

The first meeting of the National Task Force for the prevention of Sexual Violence was held today in the boardroom of the Ministry of Labour, Upper Brickdam, Georgetown.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Former Argentine President  Nestor Kirchner, the current president’s husband and a  contender to succeed her in next year’s election, died from a  heart attack today.

The Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal today ruled in favour of the Antigua government in an election petition case.

The Leguan Post Office is now in full operation after extensive renovations were done as a result of bats and an infestation of termites.

(Trinidad Express) Guyanese national Kamaldeo Singh, charged with beating his two-year-old stepson, Etean George-Smith, to death, appeared before a Port of Spain magistrate yesterday.

Spurned lover attacks woman at car dealership (Trinidad Express) Sabrina Lalla-Mitchell’s tormentor turned up at her workplace and stabbed her to death yesterday afternoon —a killing witnessed by her two children.

A new website, Get24kt.com, aims to buy gold directly from mines including Guyana’s thereby minimizing financial risk and maximizing returns.