Archive for December, 2007

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As the Guyanese mining industry adopts stricter environmental standards, miners worry about the higher associated costs.  Along with the stricter standards, the new rules will be “tightly enforced.”  Prime Minister Samuel Hinds stated, “restoration must be recognized as a cost of production.”  The need to lessen the environment impact of mining without hindering mining’s economic [...]

Suriname is on the list. (via time.com) #4  Among the hundreds of new life forms and animal species discovered this year, scientists have been able to identify 24 new species in a remote part of Suriname’s rainforest.  Among these species include 12 dung beetles, an ant species, six species of fish and five new frogs, [...]

(via timesonline.co.uk) Moore and his British bodyguards were bundled into police vehicles and driven northwards into Sadr City, the Shi’ite stronghold of Moqtada al-Sadr. The five hostages are believed to be held at two or more locations to thwart any rescue attempt by the SAS. For five months there has apparently been no attempt by [...]

(via cbs2chicago.com) A Peace Corps volunteer from Illinois was killed in Suriname when she accidentally set off a gun rigged as an animal trap, police said. The woman, identified as 25-year-old Blythe Ann O’Sullivan, was shot in the leg Thursday and apparently bled to death before she could get medical treatment, police spokesman John Jones [...]

A number of Peace Corps Volunteers, Red Cross volunteers, and members of Youth Challenge Guyana and the Guyana Responsible Parenthood Association (GRPA) joined forces to beautify a portion of the Georgetown seawall and spread the word about environmental friendliness and the importance of keeping public spaces clean.  The Friends and RPCVs of Guyana donated funds [...]

Obama says he will double the size of the Peace Corps from 7,800 volunteers to 16,000 by its 50th anniversary in 2012. “We will create new opportunities for all of us to serve,” Obama said on Wednesday. He has also proposed: Expand AmeriCorps from its current 75,000 positions to 250,000, with new units to deal [...]

A month after suspending five employees and paying a $470,000 fine for underreporting the number of trees cut, Barama is closing down one of their plywood processing plants. Barama has exhausted a portion of their logging concession and cannot begin again until their stocks are replenished. 150 employees will be affected by the plant closure. [...]

Rene Nunez’s Turbo-cooker “has won an environmental prize from the UN, funding from the Fondo Iniciativa para las Americas El Salvador (FIAES) and has received a US patent for his invention.”  This recognition will allow Nunez to proceed with manufacturing the cooker and aid much of the world’s poorest in cooking in less toxic conditions.   According to Nunez, [...]