Guyana News

NEW YORK,  (Reuters Life!) – The producers of a new  Broadway musical about the 1960s girl group The Shirelles have  been hit with a lawsuit charging them of pilfering the names  and likenesses of the original members.

GPL is conducting a major overhaul of its No 2 Unit at the new 207MW Kingston plant over the next 18 days and as such expects some amount of load shedding.

A group of University of Guyana (UG) freshmen yesterday donated a number of books to promote literacy at several orphanages in the city.

President Bharrat Jagdeo on Tuesday accepted the credentials of Smirnov Nikolay, approving him as the Russian Ambassador to Guyana.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – From Israel to Iran, Syria’s  neighbours are starting to contemplate the possibility of a  future without the Assad family as Lords of Damascus, and,  whether friends or foes, some don’t like what they see.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Eight troops and a civilian  contractor killed in a Kabul airport shooting yesterday were  all Americans, a Pentagon spokesman said.  

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Eight troops and a civilian  contractor killed in a Kabul airport shooting today were  all Americans, a Pentagon spokesman said.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Orlando Bosch, a militant  anti-communist Cuban exile who spent 11 years in jail in  Venezuela for the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner but was  later acquitted, died in Miami today.

AMMAN, (Reuters) – Two hundred members of Syria’s  ruling Baath Party from the province of Deraa and surrounding  regions resigned today in protest against an attack by  security forces on the southern city.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has ordered an immediate halt to the bulldozing of farmlands throughout Trinidad and Tobago.

(Barbados Nation) Shanique Myrie is free to return to Barbados and point a finger at who she alleges assaulted her at the Grantley Adams International Airport last month.

An auto dealer was killed this morning by two gunmen who attacked him at the head of the street he lived in.

PUTTAPARTHI, India, (Reuters) – Indian spiritual  guru Sri Sathya Sai Baba was buried today as hundreds of  thousands of devotees flocked to pay their last respects at his  temple in south India to a man revered as a living God.

The Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) inked a new five-year agreement with the Ministry of Education yesterday, calling it a “giant step” largely because of the non-salary benefits, and not the annual five percent pay hike that teachers will receive.

Several persons remain in custody and the Police Office of Professional Responsibility has launched a probe of the Monday night Windsor Forest incident in which three persons were struck by pellets, including an overseas-based Guyanese who is in a serious condition at a city hospital.

PNCR Leader Robert Corbin and the party’s Chief Whip Lance Carberry were yesterday cleared by the Ethnic Relations Commission  (ERC) of espousing “race hate” earlier this year, when during a press conference they insinuated that the PPP and the Bharrat Jagdeo were the main oppressors of Afro-Guyanese.

By Abigail Semple On Easter Monday night, some of the victims of the Barrack Street, Kingston fire were forced to sleep on the cold concrete floor at the front of the gutted building, while most of the children were sent to the Guyana Relief Council’s shelter.

The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) yesterday urged that media houses find a way to deal with content that has the potential of promoting race-based politics and racial insecurity, after concluding that “unacceptable” statements were contained in items published by Kaieteur News and Stabroek News.

Gold miner Eldon Chisholm sustained a gunshot wound to the left ear on Monday night while fighting off two men who attempted to rob him and his family.

Minutes after departing the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri yesterday morning, Caribbean Airlines flight 662 was forced to return following a bird strike.