Full Coverage: Guyana

02/20/2007 Cancellation of a Guyanese contract with a British water company - apparently for poor performance - underlines the point that privatisation is no solution to the global water crisis, a leading aid policy lobby group has warned.

11/21/2006 Debt campaigners are pleased about Friday's decision to waive odious debts assigned to five Latin American countries, but are concerned that the relief could still be watered down and subject to unfair conditions.
From: Jubilee USA

01/26/2005 Only 10 percent of those who need food aid and 20 percent of those without water are receiving it in Guyana, where hundreds of thousands have been affected by flooding after 27 inches of rain fell during the first 25 days of January.

09/30/2004 Three more states - - Burundi, Guyana and Liberia - - ratified the Rome Statute in support of the International Criminal Court (ICC) this week, bringing the number of signatories to 97. Liberia and Burundi join the ranks of countries like East Timor and the Democratic Republic of Congo that joined the ICC after suffering grave, prolonged atrocities.

08/06/2004 Internatos escolares em áreas remotas da Guiana propiciam a jovens ameríndios a oportunidade de uma melhor educação.

02/03/2004 Con la firma de un compromiso por la vida "con el fin de garantizar nuestra continuidad como pueblos" concluyeron en Quito las reuniones del Consejo de Coordinación y Consejo de Dirección de la Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica (COICA) que agrupa a organizaciones de Ecuador, Colombia, Brasil, Perú, Bolivia, Surinam, Venezuela, Guyana y Guyana Francesa.

02/27/2003 Media, educational and cultural practitioners in Guyana are benefiting from a workshop on webcasting, jointly organised by the University of Guyana and the University of Technology, Jamaica. They were trained in interactive media activities such as on-line information exchange; production and web-streaming of educational programmes and courses, sports and cultural events; as well as e-business and on-line public services.

01/15/2003 Guyana's new security and anti-terrorism legislation has been attacked as "draconian" by an international rights organisation, which said some provisions violated the country's international obligations.

01/13/2003 Authorities in Guyana are today being accused by Amnesty International of trading human rights for security following the recent enactment of tough anti-terrorism legislation.

11/28/2002 Representatives of the international community agreed in Brussels to provide over US $400 million to Burkina Faso, Guinea, Guyana, Honduras, Mauritania, Nicaragua and Niger for Education For All.

05/20/2002

08/20/2001 Governments in the Guianas must strengthen conservation laws following the massive die-off of leatherback turtles in the region, say campaigners.

05/28/2001 The leatherback turtle - which has survived for a hundred million years - is now facing extinction unless recent conservation efforts in Guyana succeed in turning the tide.

04/24/2001 An innovative distance education programme in a remote area of Guyana is enabling untrained basic education teachers to become qualified, trained teachers.

01/29/2001 The People's Progressive Party (PPP) government, which was effectively declared invalid last week after a high court judge struck down the elections that brought it to power, can remain in office, the same judge ruled Friday.

11/21/2000 The World Bank and the IMF on Friday said they had agreed to support a comprehensive debt relief package for Guyana that would save the country $590 million over the life of its multilateral debt, AFP reports.

11/13/2000 The 189-member UN General Assembly will soon have a new item on its overcrowded agenda - a proposal for the establishment of a 'New Global Human Order' aimed at creating a modern development vision and strategy for the 21st century.

10/20/2000 The western donor community has dispatched a team of election observers to Guyana in a bid to head off problems in the racially-divided nation ahead of polls due in January.

06/12/2000 Suriname and Guyana are boosting security forces along their shared border as tensions over ownership of an oil-rich section of the Corantine River heightened last week.

12/30/1999 Guyana is struggling to meet new qualifications for debt relief and will have to wait until next June for some of its repayments burden to be lifted by rich countries.