Guyana News

A dredge owner was yesterday morning shot and killed by policemen after he reportedly stabbed a rank and assaulted another while resisting arrest at his home.

(Jamaica Observer) The Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM) yesterday called on the Government of Jamaica and all other Caribbean community countries to take action to erase the common law offences of criminal libel, including blasphemous, obscene and seditious libel from their statute books.

WASHINGTON/ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistan faced embarrassing questions from the United States yesterday over how al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was able to hide there in plain view before he was killed by a secret US assault team.

Government is yet to establish the dedicated website to show pledges of funding and disbursements of money for REDD+ and Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) projects despite committing to do this by the end of last month.

With the death of Osama bin Laden, terror suspect Adnan el-Shukrijumah, who was named head of the organisation’s operation last year, may emerge as leader of the group—a situation that could attract US attention here given his links to Guyana, says AFC leader Raphael Trotman.

Health Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy says Guyana is ready to play a leading regional role in the elimination of filariasis after ten years of targeting the problem and reducing the national prevalence from a record high of almost 10% of the population to about 4%.

Police at Bartica have detained a man who set his younger brother alight yesterday in an attack which also resulted in injuries to his father, and almost destroyed the family home.

The expert panel commissioned to evaluate the Amaila Falls Hydropower project is now finalising its preliminary report but no date has been set for the release of the final report, Head of the panel Erik Helland-Hansen says.

Surinamese parliamentarian Carl Breeveld (DOE) recently raised the issue of Suriname’s claim to the New River area in southern Guyana, according to the newspaper De Ware Tijd.

Prisoner Sebastian Plato, who was reportedly beaten by three other prisoners at New Amsterdam Prison last week, succumbed to his injuries yesterday.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi stepped up their onslaught on rebel areas of Libya’s Western Mountains late yesterday, rebels said, and refugees said towns in the isolated region were on the brink of starvation.

Residents have complained about the alarming number of power outages over the past 24 hours, which they are concerned could damage equipment and appliances.

KINSHASA (Reuters) – About 100 people are missing after an overloaded boat capsized in the Democratic Republic of Congo, United Nations-backed Radio Okapi reported yesterday.

Guyana’s logs exports benefited from good prices over the last month, according to the latest report from the International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO).

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Osama bin Laden, slain by US forces in Pakistan on Sunday, seems curiously irrelevant in an Arab world fired by popular revolt against oppressive leaders.

The Linden Fund is disappointed at the poor coordination of several educational events planned for the just-concluded Linden Town Week, including a teacher’s workshop that opened with none of the participants present.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama  held a crucial meeting last week in which his advisers debated  three options for dealing with top-secret information about a  luxury compound in Pakistan where they thought Osama bin Laden  might be hiding.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. special forces set out  to kill Osama bin Laden and dump his body in the sea to make it  harder for the al Qaeda founder to become a martyr, U.S. 

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A woman killed during the  U.S. raid of Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan was not his  wife and was not used as a human shield by the al Qaeda leader  before his death, a U.S.

WASHINGTON/ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan, (Reuters) – World  leaders warned of revenge attacks after Osama bin Laden was  killed in a U.S.