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  • UWI and IDB join fight against non-communicable diseases 13 May 2008 16:55 GMT
    ... By Kevin Lindon Caribbean Net News Guyana Correspondent Email: GEORGETOWN, Guyana: The University of the ... improve the region’s capacity to deliver cost-effective health services associated with NCD, including cardiovascular disease, ... which is being led by the Chief Medical Officers of Health who have designated Focal ...

  • Guyana's president calls for prosecution of public officers found to be corrupt 13 May 2008 16:55 GMT
    ... what the penalties for Fidelity are.” The Guyana government is contemplating hiring overseas investigators to ... that the unit tasked with fighting the drug trade is of integrity and those found ...

  • St Lucia joins regional efforts to protect Caribbean Sea from pollution 13 May 2008 11:11 GMT
    ... “This has direct negative impacts on human health, food security, and economic development – particularly ... the 17th and 18th of April in Guyana where Ministers of Environment reaffirmed the importance of ...

  • COMMENTARY: Media Freedom and Political Action 13 May 2008 10:51 GMT
    ... Caribbean Festival of Creative Arts (CARIFESTA) in Guyana is being threatened by organised political groups ... of economic deprivation and its exploitation by drug traffickers. There is plenty of grist for ... Undoubtedly, there is an overwhelming desire by Guyanese people of all walks of life for ...

  • COMMENTARY: Cuba's Medical Diplomacy: A Winner 13 May 2008 10:51 GMT
    ... rights record. The Cuban governments strategy of medical diplomacy has worked; it has won friends ... at the Cheddie Jagan International Airport in Guyana. Knowing that there were no scheduled flights between ... doctors and nurses from the Caribbean, the health services of many Caribbean countries are being ...

  • COMMENTARY: Guyana Terrorists Plot Attack of JFK Airport 13 May 2008 10:51 GMT
    ... June 3, 2007 COMMENTARY: Guyana Terrorists Plot Attack of JFK Airport By ... and others thrown in. About 50% of Guyanese identify as Christian, 35% as Hindu, and ... in fields of computer programming, engineering and medicine. "Indian immigration will be the death of ...

  • COMMENTARY: South-East Asia and the Caribbean Joint Ventures: A Not Impossible Dream 13 May 2008 10:51 GMT
    ... raised recently by the Indonesian Ambassador to Guyana and Suriname, Suprijanto Muhadi. It was not ... consider: Fighting HIV/Aids, tourism, countering terrorism and drug trafficking, and environmental challenges such as sustainable ...

  • COMMENTARY: Settling the China Question: A Caribbean Challenge 13 May 2008 10:50 GMT
    ... In a week which saw the World Health Organisation (WHO) reject Taiwans application for membership, ... this connection, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Guyana are of far more strategic interest to China ...

  • Guyana: World Bank Approves $3.8 Million to Protect Vulnerable Land 13 May 2008 04:52 GMT
    ... of climate change in Caribbean nations like Guyana will impose a heavy burden on the ... toll reached 34, mostly attributed to waterborne disease. The Bank currently has a total of ...

  • Guyana: World Bank Approves $11.3 Million Grant for Water Sector 13 May 2008 04:52 GMT
    ... from the International Development Association (IDA) for Guyana to support investments to increase access to ... will contribute to the reduction of water-borne diseases, especially among children ,” said Patricia López, ...

  • The Don Imuses of the Greens 13 May 2008 04:33 GMT
    ... book "Eco-Freaks: Environmentalism Is Hazardous to Your Health." See if you think anyone else, say ... well at saving Third World lives. “In Guyana, within almost two years, it had almost eliminated ...

  • The Commonwealth: A Glass More than Half Full' 13 May 2008 00:16 GMT
    ... had good elections in recent times in Guyana and Sierra Leone. Despite the huge disappointment in ... education. Nearly 30 million Commonwealth citizens are HIV-positive or suffering with AIDS. 150 million of ...

  • Significant Others 13 May 2008 00:08 GMT
    ... more important a businessman in Georgetown Guyana, who funds jihadists on their missions and ... that he had holed up with wealthy Guyanese businessman Farouk Razac. Razac had been in ... the law for years, on weapons and drug charges mostly. It would be interesting if ...

  • Colin Bruce: World Bank Keen on Governance 13 May 2008 00:03 GMT
    ... practical developments goals such as better schools, health services, roads, jobs and so on. Q. ... in Kenya. But she is back in Guyana and deserves our continued attention. I must admit ...

  • Behind the Colombia-Ecuador-Venezuela Border Fracas 12 May 2008 23:52 GMT
    ... Marxist political veneer, revealing it as a drug army attempting to hijack a nation. Colombians ... Colombia, Ecuador, parts of Peru, Bolivia and Guyana, and possibly the Dutch West Indies — ...

  • Fly Paper 12 May 2008 23:30 GMT
    ... his heavy NYC dialect. Born in Georgetown, Guyana, his initial music of choice was shaped ... I want that shit. Hip-hop is my drug man... I just love it." ...

  • President Bush Attends Council of the Americas 12 May 2008 22:57 GMT
    ... citizens. Social justice requires access to decent health care. And so we're helping meet health ... primarily by using the United States military's medical personnel to treat local citizens. I'll never ... to assist the countries of El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay and Peru. Let me talk ...

  • Another American Muslim expresses displeasure with USA 12 May 2008 22:46 GMT
    ... Defreitas is a naturalized US citizen from Guyana. Defreitas is also a retired JFK cargo ... towns are regularly beheaded by members of drug cartels. Still, our elected officials have opted ...

  • The Terrorists Among US 12 May 2008 22:12 GMT
    ... , by Sarah Stephens - Huffington Post Think of how ... Fencing team and a group of teenage Guyanese science students on their way to Cuba to go to medical school. Their families will commemorate this day ...

  • Graham, Warren Praise Bush's $30B AIDS Push 12 May 2008 22:08 GMT
    ... elsewhere in the developing world, and deliver medicine to pregnant women to prevent infections to ... 12 in Africa, and Vietnam, Haiti and Guyana. The Presidents determination to help those suffering from ... HIV or AIDS, according to the World Health Organization's estimate last year. Sub-Saharan Africa is the ...

  • Keeping John Lennon in perspective 12 May 2008 21:59 GMT
    ... It has already started. With the 25th anniversary of ... was changes in his personal life or drugs or boredom or something, but the quality ...

  • Jonestown tragedy had liberal roots 12 May 2008 21:59 GMT
    ... the Soviet Union. Moving his group to Guyana was an escape from the suffocating capitalism he ... and recommended the U.S. government give Cuba medical supplies. He mentioned his "deep appreciation for ... Kennedy and Johnson administrations and secretary of health, education and welfare for Jimmy Carter wrote ...

  • India, Brazil Tie Biodiversity Negotiations To Doha Development Package 12 May 2008 21:52 GMT
    ... same manner as the TRIPS and public health issue had been. WTO members last week ... foreign trade and international cooperation minister of Guyana, is the facilitator for development issues. At a ... fact involved in this manner of producing drugs. Comments on this story may be sent ...

  • Cuban doctors save lives in Guyana 12 May 2008 21:37 GMT
    ... HAVANA, Cuba (ACN): Cuban health professionals serving in Guyana provide free treatment to more than 70 ... years ago. He also welcomed the six Guyanese medical students, in their final year of ...

  • All Caribbean countries now included in US funding to fight HIV/AIDS 12 May 2008 21:37 GMT
    ... Christensen, who chairs the Congressional Black Caucus’s Health Braintrust and who co-sponsored the amendment to include ... the Caribbean region, in particular Haiti and Guyana, remain in desperate need of assistance in battling ... care not only to their residents with HIV, but to all individuals on their shore ...


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