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Archive for December, 2007

Santa is in Guyana right now!

Here.

Guyana goldminers worried about ‘environmental era’

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 ...

Time’s Top 10 Scientific Discoveries

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 ...

Update on Peter Moore

(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 ...

Peace Corps Suriname volunteer killed

(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 ...

Georgetown Seawall Cleanup Day

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 ...

Obama will expand Peace Corps as President

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 ...

Barama shuts down plant

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 ...

Clean cooking

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 ...