Guyana News

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Government planners and  international experts are racing to produce a blueprint this  week to reconstruct Haiti’s economy after the earthquake that  killed up to 300,000 people and devastated its infrastructure.

LONDON (Reuters) – Four in five adults believe  access to the Internet is a fundamental right — with those  feelings particularly strong in South Korea and China — and  half believe it should never be regulated, according to a global  survey.

CONCEPCION, Chile (Reuters) – Residents in Chile’s  earthquake-ravaged city of Concepcion dumped new televisions,  fridges and furniture on roadsides on Sunday to avoid arrest as  police prepared to search homes in a crackdown on looters.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU)  is calling on all women to lead in the effort for greater change and growth while it acknowledges that many women have made much progress towards improving their quality of life in the past century.

LONDON (Reuters) – Vitamin D is vital in activating  human defences and low levels suffered by around half the  world’s population may mean their immune systems’ killer T cells  are poor at fighting infection, scientists said yesterday.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU)  in a message for International Women’s Day is urging all women to unite and fight for their right to be recognised for their rightful place in society.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – The treasurer of Brazil’s  ruling Workers’ Party defrauded investors in 2005 while  director of a real estate cooperative to illegally finance  party campaigns, a newsmagazine reported yesterday, citing  unnamed officials in a state run by an opposition party.

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – Women head governments,  run companies and comprise about half the world’s workforce,  but a global poll shows that one in four people, most of them  young, believe a woman’s place is in the home.

A man was on Wednesday placed on $500,000 bail on the indictable charge of attempted murder, after he was arrested for leading a gang attack that left the victim hospitalised.

-emphasises need for democratic process Long-serving PPP member Moses Nagamootoo says he is willing to serve as the party’s presidential candidate at next year’s general elections, if he is selected by party members through a democratic process.

A young man was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday after he was stabbed during a heated argument with another man.

The pump has no hose. It lies unutilised in a corner of the Tiger Pond village office.

Speaker of the National Assembly and presidential hopeful, Ralph Ramkarran says former presidential advisor Navin Chandarpal should have been offered, at the least, an opportunity to resign from office and the hierarchy of the PPP was disappointed with the manner in which President Bharrat Jagdeo handled the issue.

‘What are you doing?’ With the ubiquity of social media networks like Facebook and Twitter, that question has been an invitation for observations that range from the innocuous (‘Writing a story’) to those that until recently only existed within the realm of speculation (‘Girl shot in Tehran’).

Queen’s College is steeped in traditions that have been nourished for 165 years.

Rehabilitation works on the Brickdam lock-ups will be completed soon and according to Home Affairs Minster Clement Rohee, he is impressed with what he has seen.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s  Middle East envoy began a round of meetings yesterday aimed at  relaunching negotiations, while the Palestinian leader said he  feared the 20-year-old peace process with Israel was close to  collapse.  

-Overseer sent on one-month leave The Overseer of the Eccles/ Ramsburg Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) has been sent on one month’s no-pay leave, following the proposed sale of a playground in Nandy Park, after it was unanimously agreed upon by the council.

KABUL (Reuters) – Insurgency in the most violent  part of Afghanistan is being led by a former Guantanamo Bay  detainee, set free by the Afghan government in a botched attempt  at reconciliation with tribes, a NATO official said yesterday.

A fire station will be built this year at Mahaica, East Coast Demerara, to help relieve the pressure on the Campbellville station, which often responds to fires as far away as Onverwagt, West Coast Berbice, Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee says.