Guyana News

MEMPHIS, Tenn., (Reuters) – The swollen Mississippi  River swallowed up farmland and threatened river towns yesterday, as record amounts of water tested a network of levees  and reservoirs built since deadly floods in the last century.

With Mother’s Day approaching, shoppers crowded the city yesterday looking for items mothers would adore.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds on Thursday urged citizens to continue to work together as “one people” towards national aspirations.

AMMAN, (Reuters) – Syrian security forces killed 27  protesters yesterday demanding an end to President Bashar  al-Assad’s rule, rights campaigners said, and the European Union  agreed to impose sanctions in response to his crackdown.

Lenpasco Corlette, an employee of COPS Guyana Limited, died last evening after he was struck by a vehicle close to his home at Vigilance, East Coast Demerara.

NEWTON, Sierra Leone,  (Reuters) – West Africa’s first  tax-exempt economic zone has opened in Sierra Leone, aiming to  produce the impoverished country’s first significant value-added  exports since the end of its civil war nine years ago.

Police yesterday said that the Bachelors’ Adventure teen Yannick Willis, who was shot when he attempted to elude capture on Thursday night, was a suspect in a gunpoint robbery.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters Life!) – In a bank with no  security gates, guards or locks, deposits from thousands of  customers from across India are stacked on shelves, protected  from theft by the grace of god.

Quacey Harry has been positively identified after his body was found in the Le Repentir Cemetery on Wednesday evening.

ABBOTTABAD/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Extensive  surveillance of Osama bin Laden’s hideout from a nearby CIA safe  house in Abbottabad led to his killing in a Navy SEAL operation,  U.S.

LUXEMBOURG/ATHENS,  (Reuters) – Top finance officials  of the euro zone’s biggest economies met to discuss Greece’s  debt crisis yesterday and Athens denied a media report that it  was considering whether to leave the bloc.

LONDON, (Reuters) – One of Britain’s smallest police  forces has smashed an international child pornography network  stretching across 45 countries that was operated from a hamlet  in rural Lincolnshire, officers said yesterday.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation tonight said it has called in the Guyana Police Force to investigate irregularities which were detected in the personnel division of its Head Office operations.

PNCR presidential candidate David Granger today said that the police seemed clueless on how to tackle illegal firearms and the burgeoning amateur gangs and he described the daily crime situation in this country as “truly frightening”.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – One of Osama bin Laden’s wives  told Pakistani interrogators that the al Qaeda leader and his  family had been living for five years in the compound where he  was killed by U.S.

ABBOTTABAD/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Extensive  surveillance of Osama bin Laden’s hideout from a nearby CIA safe  house in Abbottabad led to his killing in a Navy SEAL operation,  U.S.

BANGALORE, India, (Reuters) – Chris Gayle smashed his  second century of the Indian Premier League (IPL) season to set  up an 85-run win for Royal Challengers Bangalore against Kings  XI Punjab today.

(WIPA) Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s recent quarrel with Dr Hilaire, the inexperienced CEO of the WICB and the de facto leader of West Indies cricket, is very troubling.

(Trinidad Express) Former government minister and People’s National Movement (PNM) stalwart, Kenneth Valley has died.

(Go Jamaica) An earthquake measuring 4.2 magnitude on the Richter scale was felt on the eastern end of the island at approximately 4:29 am this morning.