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	Top Stories Guyana pledges to protect jaguars Norway offers Guyana up to $250 million to save forests Brazil and Guyana inaugurate border bridge

	Top Stories Guyana approaches national invincibility with training of new Yogic Flyers Guyana and Guatemala take strides towards invincibility Guyana, the Land of Pure Knowledge

	Top Stories Child labourer found in Guyana gold camp Guyana: Mine mercury sickens villagers Guyana agricultural minister assassinated
Positive Trends Short Summaries of Top Stories Guyana pledges to protect jaguars 24 January 2013 - The lushly forested nation of Guyana on Thursday joined a regional pact to protect jaguars, the elusive spotted cat that is the biggest land predator in the Americas but is vulnerable due to expanded agriculture and mining that carves away at their fragmented habitat. Leaders of the government's environment ministry were signing an agreement with the New York-based conservation group Panthera, which is trying to establish a 'jaguar corridor,' a network of pathways that would link core jaguar populations from northern Argentina to Mexico. Guyana is pledging to ensure the protection of jaguars, the national animal that is a near-threatened species. (more) Norway offers Guyana up to $250 million to save forests 10 November 2009 - Norway agreed on Monday to pay Guyana up to $250 million by 2015 to preserve forests in the South American nation as part of a scheme to slow climate change. Norway, which has led donor nations in slowing tropical deforestation with a budget of 3 billion Norwegian crowns ($530 million) a year, said it wanted to help Guyana maintain forests that cover 75 per cent of its land. (more) Brazil and Guyana inaugurate border bridge 14 September 2009 - The leader of Brazil and Guyana met Monday to inaugurate a border bridge that is expected to boost trade between the giant South American country and the Caribbean. The $5 million Takutu River Bridge, paid for by Brazil, opens a trade route between landlocked areas of the country's interior and Guyana, a nation on South America's northeastern shoulder that is more aligned with the Caribbean. (more) Guyana: Indigenous Amazon group bans loggers and miners 5 October 2007 - An indigenous group in Guyana, backed by government decree and a US-based conservation organization, has banned miners and loggers from its section of the Amazon jungle and pledged to pursue an economic strategy based on ecotourism, research, and traditional crafts. The Wai Wai have developed a management plan intended to preserve forest, create jobs, and keep young people from leaving for cities. (more) Guyana: South Rupununi drafts plan to curb threats to environment 10 May 2006 - Villagers in the South Rupununi region of Guyana have come up with their own plan to protect the environment. (more) US government sending Guyana flood relief supplies 23 January 2005 - The US government is rushing relief supplies including food, drainage pumps, and other supplies to Guyana after heavy rains and flooding displaced thousands of people. A relief force will also help evacuate as many as 20,000 people. (more)
Success of Maharishi's Programmes Short Summaries of Top Stories Guyana approaches national invincibility with training of new Yogic Flyers 2 January 2010 - Guyana will soon have the required number of Yogic Flyers to create national invincibility, with successive rounds of courses in the Transcendental Meditation Sidhi Programme now underway. The new Guyanese Flyers will also augment the effect of peace, harmony, and coherence generated in the collective consciousness of the whole continent by all the groups of Yogic Flyers throughout Latin America. (more) Guyana and Guatemala take strides towards invincibility 2 November 2009 - Guatemala and Guyana are making progress in rising towards invincibility, with courses planned to train and establish coherence-creating groups of Yogic Flyers in each country. The enlightened focus of local Teachers of the Transcendental Meditation Programme has been a catalyst for these and other fruitful developments. (more) Guyana, the Land of Pure Knowledge 6 February 2007 - Guyana, a beautiful country situated at the junction point between Latin America and the Caribbean, is fulfilling its goal to become a beacon light of Pure Knowledge for the whole world. (more)
Flops Short Summaries of Top Stories Child labourer found in Guyana gold camp 5 November 2012 - A boy who appeared no older than 8 was found panning for gold in a mining camp in Guyana, a sign that greater efforts are needed to stop child labour in the South American country, the president of a non-government organization said Monday. It is illegal for anyone under 15 to work full-time in Guyana except under certain circumstances, but the law is widely flaunted. A report from the US Department of Labour in September found that there are more than 44,000 children ages 5-14 working in Guyana, including in dangerous activities. Most work in domestic service and on the streets, typically as vendors or beggars, the report found. The Gold and Diamond Miners Association said it has no statistics on the number of children working in small, independent gold-mining operations. Thousands of independent miners have carved up the forest and polluted streams in Guyana and neighbouring Suriname. The camps can range from just a few people to hundreds clustered in informal towns. Most are illegal and unregulated. 'We know of cases where parents take entire families to look for gold,' said Tony Shields, a spokesman for the association. (more) Guyana: Mine mercury sickens villagers 16 August 2007 - Mercury used by gold miners has seeped into rivers and streams and sickened scores of Indian villagers in rural Guyana, a conservation group said Thursday. About 90 per cent of 200 residents screened in one community showed symptoms of illness from mercury, which can cause permanent lung and brain damage, according to the World Wildlife Fund for Nature. (more) Guyana agricultural minister assassinated 23 April 2006 - Gunmen fatally shot Guyana's agriculture minister early Saturday along with two relatives and a security guard. A government spokesman said it appeared to be a political assassination. (more)