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Guyana’s president asks European slave traders’ descendants to pay reparations

Irfaan Ali also demands posthumous charges for crimes against humanity for traders and enslavers

The Guardian - UK

President of Guyana demands slavery reparations ahead of apology from plantation owner descendants

Guyana president Irfaan Ali has lashed out at the descendants of European slave traders and says those who profited from the cruel, trans-Atlantic slave trade should offer to pay reparations to today’s generations

The Independent UK

How William Gladstone defended his father’s role in slavery

The great Victorian statesman’s glittering career was financed by huge profits made in the 1820s and 30s on Guyanese estates

The Guardian - UK

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William Gladstone: family of former British PM to apologise for links to slavery

Descendants of PM whose father’s wealth came from sugar plantations travel to Guyana for 200th anniversary of rebellion by enslaved Africans

The Guardian - UK

Amazon rainforest | The scramble to save the planet’s lungs

At the ACTO summit in Belem do Para, Brazil, leaders from Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana called for cooperation to protect the Amazon rainforest. The “Belem declaration” promised concerted efforts to arrest deforestation, protect Indigenous people’s rights and invite development banks to pool funds for conservation…

The Hindu

Tilak's half-century takes India to moderate 151/7 against West Indies in 2nd T20I

Tilak Varma's gutsy half-century was the highlight of yet another disappointing show by Indian batters as West Indies restricted the visitors to just 151/7 in their 20 overs in the second T20I of the five-match series at Guyana on Sunday. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Guyana government reaches settlement with parents in dormitory fire that killed 20 children

Guyana’s government says it will pay $25,000 to parents of each of the 20 children burned to death in a fire at a state-run high school in May as part of a settlement to avoid any further claims in the case

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Is the U.S. Shale Industry Falling Off a Cliff?

The US shale industry is slowing dramatically. A survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas of 150 oil and gas firms in its region posted a score of zero for business activity growth in the second quarter.

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Is the US Shale Industry Falling Off a Cliff?

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Belgium overcome personal issues to beat Finland at World Cup of Darts

Australians Damon Heta and Simon Whitlock began the defence of their title with an emphatic 4-0 win over debutants Guyana.

The Independent UK

UN's Security Council selects 5 new members

In one of the more predictable rites of spring at the United Nations, the Security Council has elected, or actually selected, five new non-permanent members to serve on the powerful 15-member council. While this year's contest lacked some of the drama, debate and deliberation of the past, there were some…

Bangkok Post

Invisible Windrush: how the stories of Indian indentured labourers from the Caribbean were forgotten

My father never spoke to us about Guyana, the country of his birth, when we were growing up because he believed that his history had no value to his children. In doing this, he was unconsciously copying his grandparents, as well as others in his community, who had collectively chosen…

The Conversation

Five nations elected to U.N. Security Council, but Belarus denied

The United Nations General Assembly elected Algeria, Guyana, Sierra Leone, Slovenia and South Korea to the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday for two-year terms starting on Jan. 1, 2024, while Belarus - allied with Russia in its invasion of Ukraine - was denied a spot.

Reuters

Death toll in Guyana girls school fire rises to 20

Guyana's health ministry says the death toll in a school fire has risen to 20 after a 14-year-old girl died of her injuries in hospital.

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The Independent UK

Death toll in Guyana girls dorm fire rises to 20 when 14-year-old dies in hospital

Guyana's health ministry says the death toll in a girl’s dormitory fire has risen to 20 after a 14-year-old girl died of her injuries at a hospital in Georgetown

The New Daily

Teen girl charged with 19 murders in Guyana school fire

A girl who started a fire in her school dormitory after her mobile phone was confiscated has been charged with the murders of 19 fellow boarders.

The Independent UK

Teenage girl in Guyana charged as adult with 19 counts of murder in dormitory fire

A teenage student who police in Guyana accuse of deliberately setting a fire in a girl’s dormitory that killed 18 schoolmates and a five-year-old boy has been charged as an adult with 19 counts of murder

Reuters

Teenager charged with 19 murders in Guyana school dormitory fire

A 15-year-old girl who is accused of having started a fire at a school dormitory in Guyana last week was charged with 19 murders on Monday.

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The Independent UK

Flying drones and chasing data, Indigenous women in Guyana join fight against climate change

A small group of Indigenous women in northern Guyana are flying drones and chasing data to help understand climate change and stop the worst of its impacts

The Independent UK

Guyana girls dorm fire that killed 19 was deliberately set by student, official says

Investigators in Guyana say they believe a fire that killed 19 mostly girls who were trapped inside a government school dormitory was deliberately set by a student who was upset that her mobile phone had been confiscated

The Independent UK

Prosecutors in Guyana mull charges for teen suspect in deadly blaze at girl's dorm

Police in Guyana are conferring with prosecutors on what charges to bring against the main teenage suspect in this week’s fire that destroyed a girl’s dormitory at a school

Evening Standard

Pupil suspected of starting deadly Guyana school fire after ‘her phone was confiscated’

A female student is suspected of starting the fire that killed 19 children

AFP

Pupil started deadly Guyana dorm fire over confiscated phone: source

Georgetown (Guyana) (AFP) - The weekend school dormitory blaze that killed 19 minors in central Guyana is believed to have been started by a disgruntled pupil angry at having her mobile phone confiscated, a government source told AFP on Tuesday.

Tribune News Service

Student deliberately set fire in Guyana boarding school that killed 19 kids, investigators say

The fire that ripped through a boarding school dorm in Guyana and killed 19 children, all but one of them Indigenous girls, was deliberately set by a student angry that her cell phone had been confiscated, authorities said Tuesday.

Reuters

Deadly fire at Guyana school was set by student, mayor says

A student was allegedly responsible for setting a school dormitory fire in central Guyana that killed 19 other children, the mayor of the town where the blaze took place said on Tuesday.

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