News on Guyana

Boycott looms for Guyana's 1st elections since '94

2010-03-18T13:16:44Z

<div id="subtitle">Opposition in Guyana threatens to boycott first municipal elections since 1994</div><div><p>Opposition leaders in this South American country threatened Thursday to boycott the first municipal elections in 16 years over a plan to give a government-dominated commission control over local affairs.</p><p>The government says the proposed seven-member commission would reduce the central government's pow...

American, 22, completes solo row across Atlantic

2010-03-14T16:16:20Z

<div id="subtitle">American athlete, 22, claims record as youngest person to complete solo row across Atlantic</div><div><p>A 22-year-old American rower completed a solo journey across the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday, touching a pier in the coffee-brown waters of Guyana to claim a record as the youngest person to accomplish the feat.</p><p>Katie Spotz, who spen...

US woman becomes youngest trans-Atlantic rower

2010-03-14T15:15:35Z

<div><p>At just 22 years old, Katie Spotz on Sunday became the youngest person and only American to have rowed solo across the Atlantic.</p><p>It was mission accomplished for Spotz who arrived in Guyana, on South America's northeastern shoulder, Sunday afternoon local time after a bold 2,817 mile (4,500 kilometer) jour...

Sarwan, Bravo to miss two ODIs against Zimbabwe

2010-03-02T02:23:41Z

<div><p>Ramnaresh Sarwan and Dwayne Bravo will remain on the sidelines for the first two One-day Internationals against Zimbabwe, the West Indies Cricket Board announced late Monday.</p><p>Media reports indicated that Sarwan a...

Transgender group seeks end to Guyana dress code laws

2010-02-24T16:17:47Z

<div><p>GEORGETOWN (Reuters) - A group of transgender people in Guyana have asked the country's Supreme Court to strike down laws that leave them open to arrest following a police crackdown on cross-dressing.</p><p>Police in the small South American country, where both homosexuality and cross-dressing have been illegal for decades, detained and briefly held six pe...

Mormon missionaries resuming their work in Guyana

2010-02-22T11:02:07Z

<div id="subtitle">Mormon missionaries resuming work in Guyana after government ordered dozens to leave last fall</div><div><p>The Mormon church is slowly rebuilding its public profile in Guyana after the government ordered dozens of its missionaries to leave last fall because of outdated documents.</p><p>Church spokesman Reuters) - Voters in the French Caribbean territories of Martinique and Guyana rejected the option of greater autonomy in a referendum at the weekend, authorities said.</p><p>A year after protests against hig...

Guyana prez orders probe into minister's death

2010-02-23T11:17:20Z

<div><p>Guyana's president is ordering an investigation into whether hospital negligence caused the recent death of an education minister.</p><p>Desrey Fox was one of three Amerindians in the president's Cabinet and an icon in native minority communities. She died Dec. 11 after two days in the hospital following a car crash.</p><p>Far East uranium junior was put in play Friday, while a popular gold stock got rocked by a legal challenge.</div><div><tr><td><b>'+company+ '</b> (<a href="http://content.mochila.com/FinancialTools/sn_overview.asp?symbol='+exchange+'.'+symbol+'">TSX: '+exchange+'.'+symbol+'</a>, <a href="http://...

Jaguar kills gold miner in Guyana jungle

2010-02-24T01:07:20Z

<div id="subtitle">Jaguar kills gold miner in Guyana jungle; attacks on humans rare, official says</div><div><p>Police say a jaguar prowling the lush jungles of Guyana killed a gold and diamond miner as he fetched water from a creek.</p><p>A police statement says fellow miners found 43-year-old Kurt Rodrigues after the mauling. He died while en route to a hospital.&...

U.S. pledges $275 mln for tropical forests in 2010

2010-02-24T03:09:45Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters) - The United States pledged $275 million to rainforest protection on Thursday, at an event hosted by Britain's heir to the throne, Prince Charles, in London.</p><p>The money w...

1st monument at Guyana's Jonestown suicide site

2010-02-24T03:14:17Z

<div id="subtitle">Guyana erects 1st plaque at site of Jonestown suicides that gov't had long sought to ignore</div><div><p>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.</p>&a...

US helping Guyana track down suspected terror mastermind

2010-02-24T08:09:55Z

<div><p>The United States is helping Guyana track down a suspected mastermind in a series of domestic terror attacks, amid concerns that Washington is doing little to help.</p><p>"The request for information is with 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.</p><p>"The request for information is with the Puerto Rico (AP) — Terrorism suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base will soon get swine flu vaccines, despite complaints that American civilians should have priority, a military spokesman said Sunday.</p&a...

Guyana police accused of burning boy's genitals

2010-02-24T11:39:24Z

<div><p>GEORGETOWN, Guyana (Reuters) - Police in Guyana said on Saturday two officers had been arrested over accusations of setting fire to a 14-year-old boy's genitals in a case creating an uproar in the South American nation.</p><p>The incident is the latest in a series of rights accusations against

Women no longer 'warm-up' act at World T20

2010-02-24T12:28:15Z

<div><p>The showpiece men's matches at next year's ICC World Twenty20 in the West Indies will take place before, rather than after, the corresponding women's fixtures, organisers said Thursday.</p><p>At this year's edition in England, the women's semis and final were played before the equivalent men's matches got underway on the sam...

Guyana's gonzo gold field

2010-02-24T14:57:48Z

<div id="subtitle">A virgin stock, diamonds, smelting in sandals</div><div><p>GEORGETOWN, Guyana – This is Toroparu in the thick brush of Guyana. See it? </p><p>It’s hot, it’s friendly and it looks, hey, a lot like West Africa: lots of red clay from saprolite cover. Lots of water from rivers, from OSLO (Reuters) - Space agencies and Google Inc are helping an international project to monitor forests by satellite to fight global warming, the head of an international earth observation group said on Tuesday.</p><p>Deforestation from ...

Guyana pushes foster-care program for orphans

2010-02-25T01:55:25Z

<div><p>Guyana is pushing to make a pilot foster-care program permanent and help find families for some of the South American country's 600 orphans.</p><p>Human Services Minister Priya Manickchand says about two-thirds of the children in Guyana's 23 orphanages are eligible for the program.</p><p>Manickchand says 30 children are being monitored after being placed with fo...