Guyana News

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Guatemalan troops and  police raided several locations in the north of the Central  American country a day after the government suspended  constitutional guarantees for 30 days following the weekend  massacre of 27 farmers.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – One in three of all types of  amphibians may yet to be found by scientists and remote tropical  forests should get extra protection as the likely homes of such  “unknown” creatures, a study said yesterday.

The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) has said preparations for the Region Four Culture Fest are almost set for the Carifesta Sports Complex on Sunday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A leading specialist on al Qaeda  said yesterday an Egyptian veteran militant was acting as an  interim operational leader pending the expected appointment of  deputy chief Ayman al-Zawahri as successor to Osama bin Laden.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Even before President Barack Obama outlined his decision not to release photos of a dead  Osama bin Laden, news organizations began filing requests to  have them made public under the U.S.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – IMF chief Dominique  Strauss-Kahn was placed on a suicide watch at the New York jail  where he is being held on charges of sexual assault and  attempted rape of a hotel maid, a law enforcement source with  knowledge of the case said on Tuesday.

President Bharrat Jagdeo announced today that government will pay out $300M in severance to sugar workers from Diamond who had taken legal action against the state for withholding the monies.

An unidentified man was this morning shot in the abdomen after he was reportedly caught breaking into a car parked at Premniranjan Place, Prashad Nagar.

(Trinidad Guardian) For the past decade, intelligence units have been gathering information on the expansion of the Chinese Triad, a highly organised criminal unit which has spread its tentacles throughout the Caribbean.

(Trinidad Express) Low fares airline REDjet said yesterday it will pursue legal action against the Trinidad and Tobago Government if the State does not honour agreements between Caricom countries over aviation rights.

(Trinidad Express) West Indies coach Ottis Gibson has had his say to star batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul and has left the ball in his crease.

(Trinidad Express) “Mr Patrick Augustus Mervyn Manning is accordingly suspended from the service of this House with immediate effect,” declared House Speaker Wade Mark last night.

The government yesterday announced that 600 house lots are to be developed for Bartica.

SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – Former California  Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has acknowledged that he  fathered a child more than ten years ago with a member of his  household staff, the Los Angeles Times reported today.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados Defence Force Sports Programme’s Jason Lovell and Stephen “Shakes Man” Griffith are the two newcomers in the new-look Barbados senior football team selected last weekend for two friendly internationals against Guyana in Georgetown on Friday and Sunday.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – Bill Gates called today for  strengthened immunisation programmes against infectious diseases  to save 4 million lives by 2015 and 10 million lives by 2020  during a “decade of vaccines”.

(De Ware Tijd) THE HAGUE – Due to a lack of a vision for development and leadership, Suriname could not take full advantage of the 3.5 billion Dutch guilders in development aid it was given by the Netherlands in 1975.

CNN anchor Don Lemon comes out as a gay man in his new book, a disclosure he knows comes at a risk, the Associated Press reported today.

(Barbados Nation) Against a growing chorus of disgust in Jamaica, Sir Hilary Beckles, principal of the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies, has apologized to former West Indies captain Chris Gayle for statements he made during a recent lecture in St Kitts.

Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) is a logical and reasonable set of proposals but it does not consider in detail the balance of obligations and rewards to different groups and sectors of society, a report on the impact of Norwegian support here, has said.