Guyana News

AMMAN, (Reuters) – Syrian security forces have shot  dead at least 400 civilians in their campaign to crush  month-long pro-democracy protests, Syrian human rights  organisation Sawasiah said today.

An Antiguan immigration officer is to appear in court charged with fraud following a transaction with a Guyanese.

A condemned two-storey building at the south-western corner of High and Barrack streets, Kingston, was yesterday afternoon completely gutted by fire, leaving dozens homeless and destroying huge amounts in valuables and household items.

Police were last evening forced to fire pellets at an irate crowd which launched an attack on law enforcers after they instructed that a large music set on the Windsor Forest, West Coast Demerara seawall be turned off.

Guyana Police Force (GPF) records indicate that there has been at least a 5 percent increase in armed robberies during the first quarter of 2011, a senior police source reported.

The mother of two of Canefield, East Canje who was stabbed repeatedly by her now dead estranged husband around 6:40 am on Saturday is said to be “out of danger.”

Syrian troops and tanks poured  into Deraa yesterday, seeking to crush resistance in the city  where a month-long uprising against the autocratic 11-year rule  of President Bashar al-Assad first erupted.

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

NEW YORK, (Reuters Life!) – Belief in a god, or a  supreme being, and some sort of afterlife is strong in many  countries around the globe, according to a new Ipsos/Reuters  poll.

Winner of the Ms Bartica Regatta Pageant Ava Hicks was not surprised when the results were announced on Sunday evening.

Twenty Amerindian communities in the Rupununi, Region Nine on Saturday received aid from the Amerindian Affairs Ministry, based on “long-awaited” requests for assistance.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, (Reuters) – Hundreds of  prisoners escaped from a jail in Afghanistan’s south yesterday  through a tunnel dug by Taliban insurgents, officials said, a  “disaster” for the Afghan government and a setback for foreign  forces planning to start a gradual withdrawal within months.

At about 0330h yesterday vendor Wajid Ishmael, 67, of Grove Squatting Area, EBD, was aroused by noise in his home and upon checking was confronted by two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun.

ALGIERS, (Reuters) – Rebels and residents of  Misrata said bodies lay scattered in the streets of the city and  medics struggled to cope with the wounded yesterday after some  of the bloodiest fighting of a two-month-old siege.

SANAA, (Reuters) – Yemen’s opposition has agreed to  take part in a transitional government under a Gulf-negotiated  peace plan for veteran leader Ali Abdullah Saleh to step aside,  an opposition source told Reuters yesterday.

The Dow Jones stock exchange yesterday reported that Colombian stocks fell, led by energy firm Canacol Energy Ltd.

Subscribers to GT&T’s 256 DSL internet service in the areas that the company’s high-speed E-magine service has not yet been launched, will now benefit from a reduction in rates.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – Haiti’s President-elect Michel  Martelly asked Haitians living abroad yesterday to support his  country’s post-earthquake recovery with contributions to a fund  for education to come out of money transfers and phone calls.

An unidentified man suffered head injuries after he was struck by a Toyota Raum  PLL 6320 at Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice around 10:30 am yesterday.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General  Ban Ki-moon said he lacks the authority to personally order a  probe into the mass killings of civilians in the final months  of Sri Lanka’s civil war, as a report recommended yesterday.