Guyana News

SANAA/CAIRO, (Reuters) – Protests erupted across  much of the Arab world yesterday, the Muslim day of prayer, with  demonstrators killed in Syria and Yemen while Egyptians staged  one of the biggest rallies since President Hosni Mubarak’s fall.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Forces loyal to  beleaguered Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo have regained  ground in Abidjan and fully control the upscale Plateau and  Cocody areas, U.N.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – A Texas jury on Friday  acquitted an 83-year-old anti-Castro Cuban exile and former CIA  operative, considered an archfoe by Havana, of charges he lied  to U.S.

TRIPOLI, (Reuters) – Libyan rebels said yesterday  they had repulsed a government assault on the besieged western  city of Misrata but prospects faded that Muammar Gaddafi would  be ousted by the armed revolt.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate hurriedly  passed a stopgap spending bill last night to fund the federal  government for one week to avert a government shutdown at  midnight.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Swedish warplanes operating  from Sicily took part in NATO’s operations against Libyan leader  Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday, the first combat sortie by the  Nordic country’s air force since the early 1960s.

A murderous feud between two groups of Guyanese in Schenectady, New York had its finale in a courtroom yesterday when the triggerman was sentenced to 18 years.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate hurriedly  passed a stopgap spending bill last night to fund the federal  government for one week to avert a government shutdown at  midnight.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – A Texas jury on Friday  acquitted an 83-year-old anti-Castro Cuban exile and former CIA  operative, considered an archfoe by Havana, of charges he lied  to U.S.

(Jamaica Observer) The two members of the Royal Barbados Police Force who are accused in the rape and sexual assault of a 27-year-old Jamaican woman have been formally charged.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Seventy-nine-year-old Rachel Brown had become fearful her son-in-law Wayne Llewellyn could kill her and members of her family.

A male psychiatric nurse on Thursday pleaded guilty to the murder of his Guyanese-born girlfriend who burnt to death in her north London home last year.

AMMAN, (Reuters) – Protests erupted across Syria  against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad today and  sources said at least 19 people were killed in the southern city  of Deraa, the cradle of unrest challenging his 11-year rule.

Teachers and pupils of the Roxanne Burnham Gardens Nursery School were shaken following an attack this morning on the school by a machete-wielding man demanding laptops.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said today that he expected lawmakers to reach agreement on a spending plan and avert a government shutdown.

Advice given by consultancy firm McKinsey and Co to rainforest countries like Guyana is “fundamentally flawed” and helps to safeguard their logging industry while gaining access to millions of dollars in funds intended to protect trees, says a report by Greenpeace, which has been rejected by the government here.

Guyanese journalist, Perry Woolford is considering a legal challenge to the non-renewal of his contract with Radio Broadcasting Foundation Suriname (SRS) which terminated his services because he cannot speak Dutch.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — Yesterday, police acted on a tip that distribution trucks of Manglie’s Rice Factories were carrying drugs.

Another man has been charged with the murder of Guyanese butcher  Rondel George, who was gunned down in Antigua on August 21, 2010, the Antigua Observer has reported.

(Barbados Nation) Trinidad and Tobago’s attempt to prevent the WICB regional four-day final from bowling off today has come to nothing.