Guyana News

MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani authorities interrogated a teenager yesterday wanted in the United States on charges of financing and supporting the al Qaeda-linked Pakistani Taliban, local intelligence officials said.

Police Commissioner Henry Greene’s condition has improved, as he is now speaking, this newspaper was told yesterday.

DUBLIN (Reuters) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth arrives in Dublin today for a state visit steeped in symbolism and gestures designed to underline how warm neighbourly relations have replaced centuries of animosity.

A post-mortem examination (PME) performed yesterday on the body of Port Kaituma miner George Persaud revealed that he died from heart failure.

A man who confessed to stealing two crocheted hats and assaulting a woman at the Port Mourant Market was yesterday sentenced to two years’ imprisonment Jerry Joseph pleaded guilty and was sentenced by Magistrate Fabayo Azore to a year each on charges of larceny and unlawful assault.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A visiting senior United States senator warned Pakistanis yesterday that members of Congress were asking “tough questions” about economic aid to Islamabad after Osama bin Laden was killed on Pakistani soil.

(Jamaica Observer) – A minor earthquake was felt in several areas of Jamaica minutes after 10 yesterday morning.

(Barbados Nation) REDjet is yet to receive permission to fly into Trinidad and Jamaica.

(Barbados Nation) A tremor was felt in sections of Jamaica at 10:07 this morning.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was denied bail today on attempted rape and other criminal charges, and prosecutors said they are investigating whether he may have engaged in similar conduct once before.

BOSTON, (Reuters) – Billionaire real estate magnate  Donald Trump said today that he will not run for the White  House in 2012.

(WIPA) The West Indies Players Association (WIPA) has sent congratulations to the victorious West Indies Cricket team which won the First Test Match against Pakistan at Providence, Guyana, yesterday.

Guyanese Gavton Shepherd who spent much of his life here and in the UK helping youths and promoting racial harmony has died in the UK at the age of 76.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police say the murder of Maraval businessman Anthony Chen and the kidnapping of restaurant owner Xue Hua Shan, who is still missing, are linked, but the cases may never be solved. Suspects

(Jamaica Observer) NEW YORK — Marlene Malahoo-Forte, Kenneth Baugh’s deputy, has been dispatched to pound the pavements of North America, beginning today in New York, to smooth over anxiety that the Government is losing the Diaspora.

A team of senior RUSAL officials is to visit Guyana to investigate a complaint by the  Trades Union Congress on behalf of Aroaima workers against the General Manager of Operations here, Ruslan Volokhov.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The find of some kilos of gold by Brazilians has led villagers of Klaaskreek to come to blows.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British police said today  they had been warned of a bomb in central London, a day before  Queen Elizabeth makes a historic visit to Ireland.

(Barbados Nation) Bishop of Barbados Dr John Holder has distanced the church from controversial statements made by Reverend Charles Morris, who said there was nothing wrong with premarital sex.

KARACHI/ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Gunmen on motorcycles  shot and killed a Saudi diplomat in the Pakistani city of  Karachi today, police and the Saudi ambassador said, the  second attack on the mission since the killing of Osama bin  Laden increased tension in the region.