Guyana News

TRIPOLI, (Reuters) – Libyan rebels fought a fierce  battle with forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi near the airport at  the western city of Misrata yesterday as NATO planes targeted  government ammunition stores on another front in the war.

The Council of Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR)  met Wednesday and Thursday at Frigate Bay in St.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of  Mexicans yesterday marched into the capital city to protest the  wave of killing that has claimed 38,000 lives since President  Felipe Calderon launched his war on drug gangs in late 2006.

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – Making juice from their own  fruit crops or polishing gemstones from their mines would help  the world’s least developed countries diversify their economies  and reduce poverty, a senior World Bank official said yesterday.

Following the fire that gutted its offices on Saturday, TravelSpan airline services yesterday announced that it has relocated to the King’s Plaza Hotel at 45 Main Street and services will resume there today.

BANGALORE, (Reuters) – Chris Gayle blasted an  astonishing 37 off one seven-ball over to set Royal Challengers  Bangalore on their way to a nine-wicket romp over Kochi Tuskers  Kerala in the Indian Premier League today.

The police say they are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 0230h today at No.

The police are reporting that at about 0025h today businessman Deochand Hemchand, 32 years of No.

Fire this afternoon completely destroyed a building that housed the Digicel store on Republic Avenue, Linden while badly damaging the Regional Democratic Council building.

A 51-year-old Bartica miner was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital in the mining community after he was chopped about the body by another man in the Cuyuni/Mazaruni area on Saturday afternoon.

A Herstelling labourer was this morning fatally stabbed by his friend who had accused him of shortchanging him $500 in a drug transaction.

(Trinidad Express) Almost a year after it inherited an agreement to repay thousands of CLICO policyholders more than TT$1 billion they invested in the failed insurance giant, the People’s Partnership Government is now close to a decision about ending its commitment.

(Barbados Nation) A backlog of about 15 000 unprocessed immigrant applications has returned to haunt Government and the country’s health care system, says Minister of Health Donville Inniss.

LAS VEGAS, (Reuters) – Manny Pacquiao of the  Philippines retained his WBO welterweight title by recording a  unanimous points victory over a lacklustre Shane Mosley at the  MGM Garden Arena yesterday.

The exclusion of the main opposition PNCR from the multi-stakeholder steering committee (MSSC) of the Low Carbon Development Strategy is “unsatisfactory,” according to a report on Norwegian development cooperation support to Guyana, which says a more solid bipartisan approach would be helpful.

Fire destroyed the King Solomon building at Main Street early yesterday morning and has temporarily halted operations at Travel Span airline services.

Tacuma Ogunseye’s call for African Guyanese to militantly campaign for power-sharing if the PPP/C wins the 2011 general elections drew both criticism and endorsement, and reignited discussions of race and governance.

Caricom foreign ministers say they are disheartened at the second postponement of the UK-Caribbean Forum, but they are looking forward to continued engagement with the UK as a long-standing ally at the highest political level at the rescheduled forum proposed for the Autumn of 2011.

The European Union (EU) will not be offering support for the holding of the upcoming general and regional elections, according to Ambassador Geert Heikens.

The New Building Society (NBS) last year notched up a profit of $577 million, the highest in the institution’s history.