Guyana News

Even as police in the E and F Division are battling to solve a number of murders since the start of the year, yet another miner has been killed, this time at Pamela Backdam, Mahdia.

Over 10 research papers from Guyanese health professionals, including an examination of the effects of the recent flood on respiratory illnesses, are to be presented at the annual Caribbean Health Research Council (CHRC), which is to be held here this month.

Anil Persaud, 40, who admitted to stealing a quantity of building materials from a businessman, was yesterday sentenced to three months imprisonment by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Rebels cheered the defection of a Libyan minister as a sign that Muammar Gaddafi’s rule was crumbling, but US officials warned he was far from beaten and made clear they feared entanglement in another painful war.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Yoko Hashiguchi and her toddler fled Tokyo after a deadly earthquake and tsunami devastated northeast Japan and triggered a nuclear disaster at a power plant 240 km (150 miles) away.

Two men accused of stealing a Blackberry cell phone were on Monday placed on bail in the sum of $25,000 each by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is suffering so-called “third term-itis,” with only 40 percent of voters approving of his job as good or excellent, a poll found yesterday, down nearly 30 per cent from 2008.

A former RA Soda Factory saleswoman was yesterday accused of stealing $4,000 from a company truck.

The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday upheld a four year sentence for tax evasion and lying to White House Officials handed down to former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik.

ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Fighters loyal to Alassane Ouattara attacked the residence of incumbent Laurent Gbagbo in Abidjan the early hours of today and have seized control of Ivory Coast’s state television, a Ouattara spokesman said.

(Jamaica Observer) Adding to the gathering storm of accusations about their poor treatment of visitors, Barbadian authorities have again allegedly beaten and kicked three more Jamaicans out of that eastern Caribbean island.

Six gunmen raided the Guyana Stockfeeds office at Farm, East Bank Demerara this afternoon after pretending to be customers.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – Radiation in water of an  underground tunnel outside a turbine building of No.2 reactor at  Japan’s crippled nuclear complex was more than 10,000 times  above normal levels in reactors, the plant operator was quoted  by Kyodo news agency as saying today.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Balancing India’s commercial  power with the interests of other cricket-playing nations is one  of the main challenges facing the game over the next few years,  according to former ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed.

MOHALI, India, (Reuters) – It took a selection  blooper for India to make sure they had ticked all the boxes  before they locked horns with Sri Lanka in Saturday’s World Cup  final in Mumbai.

MOHALI, India, (Reuters) – Shahid Afridi arrived  for the World Cup with a “rag-tag bunch of players” and in the  space of six short weeks turned them into a strong Pakistan  outfit.

LONDON, (Reuters) – About 1,000 people are believed  to have been killed in clashes between supporters and opponents  of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the British government said in  a human rights report published today.

(Trinidad Express) Pamenos Ballantyne, 37, one of the best long-distance runners in the region, came straight from Piarco International Airport to the Queen’s Park Savannah in Port of Spain to compete in the seventh annual Vinci Construction Savannah one-lap race on Sunday.

Local Government Minister Kellawan Lall yesterday called the City Council’s appointment of Royston King as Town Clerk “null and void,” saying he had not granted approval in keeping with the law, while King later said he was carrying out the decision of the council.

Fear of being labelled HIV patients is keeping Lindeners away from the Upper Demerara Hospital (UDH), which is putting undue pressure on the Linden Hospital Complex.