Guyana News

An Eccles resident was this morning shot and killed by policemen after he reportedly refused to turn himself over to the lawmen and instead barricaded himself in his home.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s former military ruler  Pervez Musharraf called Osama bin Laden’s death today a  “positive step” but criticised the United States for launching  the raid on the al Qaeda leader within his country’s borders.

The Caribbean Media Corporation is reporting that  heavy rain in the last five days has caused severe damage in St Lucia.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Initial DNA results show a  “very confident match” to al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, a  U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – CIA Director Leon Panetta today said al Qaeda would “almost certainly” try to avenge the  U.S.

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.

DUBAI/ABBOTTABAD,  (Reuters) – In the early hours of  Monday, Sohaib Athar reported on Twitter that a loud bang had  rattled his windows in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad, adding  that he hoped it wasn’t “the start of something nasty”.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The body of al Qaeda leader  Osama bin Laden was taken to Afghanistan after he was killed in  Pakistan and was later buried at sea, the New York Times  reported today.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. special forces team  that hunted down Osama bin Laden was under orders to kill the  al Qaeda mastermind, not capture him, a U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. forces finally found al  Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden not in a mountain cave on   Afghanistan’s border, but with his youngest wife in a  million-dollar compound in a summer resort just over an hour’s  drive from Pakistan’s capital, U.S.

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Pakistan declared  the killing of Osama bin Laden a “major setback” to global  terrorism, but it will inevitably come under pressure to explain  how the al Qaeda leader was holed up in a mansion near a  military facility.

With general elections looming, the working class was urged to focus on issues affecting their rights as the GTUC held its annual Labour Day event at the Critchlow Labour College, Woolford Avenue yesterday.

“Ugly features” of Guyanese society like corruption and crime restrain economic growth, President of the Guyana Agricultural & General Workers Union, (GAWU) Komal Chand said yesterday even as he lamented the troubles faced by sections of the labour force and trade unions last year.

Every time she took to the stage, she wowed the crowd with her poise, beauty and assertiveness. 

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) is “seriously concerned” about what it described as the “mediocrity” displayed by some union leaders with Agreements which they enter into that compromise and add to the difficulty of trade unionism nationally.

Over the past ten years, clouds of dust from a rice mill has enveloped their homes and caused health problems, residents of Cane Grove, Mahaica have said but the company says action was taken to keep the dust down and more measures will be undertaken soon.

Lindener Donna Cadogan-Douglas who  credits the highlights of her nursing career to the foundation training she had obtained at the Charles Rosa School of Nursing in Linden says she has seen noticeable improvement in the delivery of professional health care  with the new Linden Hospital Complex.

The PPP’s meeting in New York last Friday was hailed a success by the organizers despite what they said were efforts by “some paid detractors of the PNC and AFC to disrupt the event”.

Students of the Agatash Primary School in Region Seven were last Saturday gifted 100 solar lamps by a German company.

An elderly woman is calling for police action after her son was forcibly taken from his worksite and beaten by persons who accused him of stealing ducks from their farm.