Guyana News

Britaina s Prince Charles has praised the leadership of President Bharrat Jagdeo in the climate change arena.

By Olesya Dmitracova LONDON, England -- An agreement by Norway to pay Guyana for preserving forests to help slow climate change will still allow the South American nation to increase its rate of deforestation, Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo said.

The Guyana Police Force is now awaiting the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution as they have completed an investigation into the alleged torture of two prisoners, including a 14-year-old murder suspect.

A policeman suffered gunshot injuries to his face while responding to a robbery at Hampshire, Corentyne around 7.30 pm on Wednesday and is currently a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital .

Britain's Prince Charles, centre, meets with Hans Brattskar, left, Special Advisor of the Government of Norway's International Climate and Forestry Initiative, and President of Guyana Bharrat Jagdeo, right, at a meeting of the Prince's Rainforests Project, at St James's Palace, in London Thursday Nov.

It has taken more than 30 years, but the government of Guyana has erected a memorial plaque at the site of the Jonestown cult massacre, a dark episode the South American country had long sought to downplay.

Guyana's rainforest, the plight of which was revealed in The Independent in 2007, is bigger than England enlarge Guyana and Norway yesterday hailed a historic agreement that will see the Scandinavian country invest $250m to preserve the rainforests of the Latin America nation.

Guyana remains ranked among the most corrupt countries in the world, according to the 2009 Transparency International Corruption Perception Index released yesterday.

For the past year, President Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana has traveled the world offering to place his nation's forests under international supervision if other countries paid his citizens not to deforest the tropical landscapes.

Typewriter technician Michael Martin Crawford of Lot 9 Martin Luther Scheme, New Amsterdam, Berbice, wasA refused bailA after two indictable charges of rape were read to himA by Magistrate Adela NagamootooA in the New Amsterdam Court yesterday.

In recent years Jamaican plays have been extraordinarily popular in Guyana and whenever any of the companies from that country are booked on tours to Georgetown they are in high demand.

The strengthening and modernization of the financial system with the formulation and enactment of relevant legislature has over the years enabled sustained economic growth and development.

The Bharrat Jagdeo administration in Guyana has revised the country's projected economic growth, which has been reduced by nearly half from the projections presented in February by the country's finance minister Ashni Singh during his budget presentation.

The Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy has condemned the brutal torture of a 14 year-old boy by Guyana police at the Leonora Police Station, West Coast Demerara, and accused the force of an attempted cover-up. It is also calling for the removal of Guyana's Police Commissioner, Henry Green as well as the command of the Criminal Investigation ...

The need for a diversified economic base in light of the global financial and economic crisis was further highlighted during the opening of the 41st Annual Monetary Studies Conference at the Bank of Guyana on Tuesday morning.

Dear Minister Rohee: As a world citizen, I'm flabbergasted at the recent waves of injustice within Guyana's Police Force.

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.

Guyana and Norway have entered into partnership to protect Guyana's tropical forests.

A woman jumped off a towering waterfall in Guyana on Saturday in an apparent suicide, tourism workers said.

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.