Guyana News

The ‘channa bomb’ found at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport was in a washroom which is frequented by staff and passengers, making it very difficult for police investigators to pin down a suspect.

Canada-based Guyanese technology products inventor, Alan Zaakir on Friday followed-up on his promise last month and donated some 300 netbooks to the Ministry of Education.

The Bartica Speedboat Association in a televised notice last night announced that the fare will be increased to $2,500 effective tomorrow; a move that has left residents angry.

AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian forces shot dead six civilians in an attack on Sunni districts in the mixed city of Banias yesterday, rights campaigners said, raising sectarian tension in a country gripped by pro-democracy protests.

Dredge owner Angold Bobbington Cox, who was shot and killed by police ranks during a confrontation in his home at Eccles, will be buried on Friday.

QUITO (Reuters) – Two private polls showed Ecuador’s leftist leader, Rafael Correa, comfortably won yesterday’s referendum on judicial and media reforms that opponents say are a power-grab threatening the Andean nation’s democracy.

The two gas station workers who were shot and robbed on Friday night while on their way to make a cash deposit at Citizens Bank automated teller machine and safe deposit facility at Thirst Park, Mandela Avenue, yesterday recounted the attack from their hospital beds at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore’s long-ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) swept back to power as expected in the most contested general election since independence, but the opposition made historic gains in what both sides called a landmark vote.

Some 37 teachers, caregivers and parents drawn from five pre-school centres in the city yesterday benefited from a multi-task training workshop hosted by Kiskadee Kids Day Care and Play Group in Kitty.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The compound in Pakistan where US forces killed Osama bin Laden was an active command centre from which he directed al Qaeda, a senior intelligence official said on Saturday as he released videos showing bin Laden watching himself on tape and rehearsing speeches.

Guyana has maintained its ‘free’ status in the latest Freedom House report on world press freedom along with some other 67 countries worldwide.

CAIRO (Reuters) – At least five people were killed in a sectarian clash in Egypt yesterday over a Christian woman who allegedly had converted to Islam, according to officials.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Taliban insurgents, including at least six suicide bombers, hit government targets in southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar yesterday, triggering gun battles that killed two people in what the militants said was part of their “spring offensive”.

The National Weather Watch Centre (NWWC) at Hyde Park, Timehri hosted an open day on Wednesday to some students to inform them about its functions as well as that of the Doppler Weather Radar.

SANAA (Reuters) – Yemeni youth groups leading mass protests to oust President Ali Abdullah Saleh called on Gulf Arab states yesterday to withdraw a plan that has failed so far to usher him out of power.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) is urging the government to deliver on a promise it made to provide alternative land for displaced farmers of the Leonora Dairy Farmers’ Co-op Society, whose land was cleared last year to accommodate the construction of a new secondary school and a modern athletic track.

LOUISVILLE, (Reuters) – Longshot Animal Kingdom won  today’s 137th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill  Downs in front of a record crowd of nearly 165,000 people.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The compound in Pakistan  where U.S. forces killed Osama bin Laden was an active command  center from which he directed al Qaeda, a senior intelligence  official said today as he released videos showing bin  Laden watching himself on tape and rehearsing speeches.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – Ambati Rayudu and Rohit Sharma  shone with the bat as Mumbai Indians booked a semi-final berth  in the Indian Premier League today with a 32-run victory  over Delhi Daredevils who are now out of contention.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The compound in Pakistan  where U.S. forces killed Osama bin Laden was an “active command  and control center” where the al Qaeda leader retained  strategic, operational and tactical direction of the group, a  senior U.S.