Guyana News

PARIS, (Reuters) – French President Nicolas Sarkozy  will try to quell a political donations scandal today after  losing a safe parliamentary seat in a sign of public anger over  allegations of cash handouts to conservative politicians.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – A senior Palestinian figure  said yesterday that rising tension with Israel over settlement  building in the Jerusalem area was a “time bomb” that was eroding trust between the two sides.

Cash crop farmers from Bush Lot Village, West Coast Berbice, Region Five, are expected to see a boost in land preparation following the handing over of a new two-inch irrigation pump Friday morning by Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Guatemala’s navy  captured a makeshift submarine loaded with five tonnes of  cocaine bound for the United States, the Guatemalan military  said yesterday.

Elementary lessons in playing steel pan will be introduced into the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport annual youth camps this year and will also be used as a means of spotting talented pan players to maintain youth interest in the art form.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian forces killed 12  leftist rebels yesterday in an attack on a unit assigned to  protect the nation’s top guerrilla leader, punctuating a bloody  weekend that left another 14 people dead around the country.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Spain stunned the  Netherlands to win their first World Cup today in  sensational fashion with a goal in the last minutes of extra  time.

A misleading tip to airport officials or the mistaken suspicion by them that there was cocaine in rolling pins in their luggage saw three hapless passengers removed from a Delta Airlines flight bound for New York early yesterday morning.

Yesterday, a month before its scheduled opening in August, the start up of the new landfill site at Haags Bosch was pushed back to October and city officials worry that this will be an added strain to the already overflowing Mandela site.

The main opposition party yesterday took a decision to assemble a team to identify the process to select its presidential candidate for next year’s general elections.

– mother says The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) has admitted negligence on the part of the company after a teenager  was hospitalized after coming into contact with a high voltage electrical wire on Thursday afternoon in the city.

The Ministry of Agriculture says it will be going after those individuals who fish the inland waterways indiscriminately thereby leading to a situation that could adversely affect the livelihood of Amerindians in the hinterland regions.

Police are continuing the search for the prime suspect in the murder of 43-year-old Claudine Bentham and her relatives yesterday expressed the hope that he will be captured and punished for what he has done.

Some $300 million has been set aside to address problems affecting Linden residents including the rehabilitation of roads at Mackenzie and Wismar.

The fire which ravaged parts of the Mahdia mining community started in an apartment with illegal wiring behind the “Arcade,” Fire Chief Marlon Gentle has said.

Salimoon Rahaman, the mother of missing boy, Ricky Jainarine says she does not believe the authorities are listening to her as almost a year after the Essequibo River boat incident that also left her reputed husband and another man dead, she has received no answers.

Pakistan (Reuters) – The death toll from a suicide attack in a volatile border region of Pakistan climbed to 102 yesterday, showing the militants’ continued ability to stage deadly strikes despite losing ground in army offensives.

Construction of the Wakenaam airstrip is moving at a snail’s pace and bad weather is cited as the main delaying factor.

KABUL (Reuters) – Hundreds of Afghans took to the streets of Mazar-i-Sharif yesterday to protest against mounting civilian deaths, while five US and NATO troops died in separate insurgent attacks on a bloody day of fighting across the country.

On Thursday last 364 teachers graduated from the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) at a ceremony at the National Cultural Centre, and 2,000 more will be trained over the next five years to complement the 5,000 existing trained teachers, Education Minister Shaik Baksh said.