Guyana News

A trainee teacher stabbed to death and dumped on a dam in Harlem, West Coast Demerara; a nursery school teacher brutally knifed.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – The Libyan government sent an envoy to Greece yesterday to discuss an end to fighting, but gave no sign of any major climbdown in a war that has ground to a stalemate between rebels and forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi.

The Teaching Service Commission (TSC) appointed 509 junior teachers last year, made 627 senior promotions and dismissed 288 teachers, a press release from the commission said.

Vocational education expert, Andy Moore believes the rise in school violence in the country is linked to a decline in technical education in the education system, particularly at the secondary school level.

AMMAN (Reuters) – Thousands of Syrians called for freedom at the funeral of eight protesters yesterday, a witness said, after President Bashar al-Assad named the former agriculture minister to form a new government.

A two-day parenting workshop at the Uitvlugt Community Centre in Region Three focused on issues such as positive parenting, alternative forms of discipline, teenage pregnancy and truancy.

ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Fighters loyal to Ivory Coast presidential rivals Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara held their respective positions across Abidjan yesterday, a day that saw less fighting than the previous three.

SANAA (Reuters) – Two Yemenis died and hundreds were hurt yesterday when police used live rounds, tear gas and batons to try to break up protests against President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who called for an end to weeks of unrest.

There is a need to “very consistently” address the issue of safeguards in Guyana’s REDD+ and LCDS activities with lack of clarity on the part of government leading to many questions, according to a report commissioned under the Guyana-Norway forests’ saving pact.

ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria postponed parliamentary and presidential elections by one week yesterday after failing to get logistics prepared in time, a major embarrassment for a nation hoping to break with a history of chaotic polls.

PARIS (Reuters) – France has discovered what appears to be part of an Air France aircraft that crashed in the Atlantic almost two years ago killing all 228 people on board, accident investigators said yesterday.

Canal Number One Polder residents hauled the body of a man from the conservancy a short time after he plunged into the black water yesterday afternoon.

(Trinidad Express) The ethnic imbalance within the upper echelons of the Police Service, that favours Afro-Trinidadians, was pushed centre stage by Police Service Commission chairman Nizam Mohammed two Fridays ago at a Joint Select Committee (JSC) meeting at the Parliament, when he stated his intention to fix the disparity.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police Commissioner of Police (CoP) Dwayne Gibbs has come under the gun. And,

ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara rejected UN charges that his forces massacred hundreds of civilians in the west of Ivory Coast as fighting raged in Abidjan to dislodge incumbent Laurent Gbagbo.

(Barbados Nation) In one of the biggest drug busts in Barbados, police have arrested and charged five men with having over $13 million worth of cocaine.

A burglar was shot dead by police in the early hours of yesterday after he was alleged to have rushed at an officer with an object in his hands.

Gunmen yesterday stormed the Excel Minerals Inc office at Mahdia and after tying up two employees escaped with millions of dollars in cash, gold and diamonds along with the security camera.

Some city residents have complained that with the opening of the Haags Bosch facility their garbage is no longer being collected on time.

For almost three decades the Pigeon Island squatting area has attracted poverty-stricken Guyanese with its promise of rent-free dwelling.