Archive for February, 2008

 
 
Peter Moore update

Peter Moore update

(via cnn.com) A video has been release asking for an exchange of the five Britons taken hostage back in May with Iraqi prisoners. “The PM has been in close contact with PM Maliki on this case, and discussed it again with him over the ‘phone this morning,” a statement from Brown’s office said. “Both leaders [...]

 

12 slain at Bartica police station

(via newsinfo.inquirer.net) Unidentified gunmen late Sunday killed 12 people during a brazen assault on a police station at a gold-mining township in south-western Guyana, in the second massacre to have occurred in less than one month, authorities said. Regional Chairman Hilbert Knights said three policemen and nine civilians were killed and several others injured. He [...]

 

CARIFESTA 2008 to be held in Guyana

(via uctp.blogspot.com) CARIFESTA … will return to its birthplace – Guyana – from August 22 to 31 2008. CARIFESTA attracts a wide range of creative artists from various Caribbean and Latin American countries and was the culmination of a concept that began in 1970 when participants at an Artists and Writers Convention in Guyana complained [...]

 

Peace Corps pulls out of Kenya

(via breakingnewskenya.wordpress.com) Peace Corps operations in Kenya will be temporarily suspended to ensure the safety of the 58 remaining Peace Corps Volunteers serving in Kenya. With growing instability in Kenya, and following the unrest associated with the recent elections on December 27, 2007, these Volunteers who remained working at their sites in the eastern, central [...]

 
 

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