Guyana News

BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai protesters defied warnings to disperse yesterday as troops tightened a security cordon, putting the army on a collision course with thousands of demonstrators who say they are willing to fight to the death.

KABUL (Reuters) – A local Pamir Airways plane with 38 passengers and five crew on board, including six foreigners, crashed in Afghanistan’s inaccessible, mountainous Hindu Kush region near Kabul yesterday, officials said.

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran made an apparent concession over its nuclear programme, but big powers expressed scepticism and analysts said the move seemed intended to split the international community and avert planned new UN sanctions.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – The head of a US missionary group jailed on charges of kidnapping children in the chaos that followed Haiti’s devastating January 12 earthquake, has been freed from jail, a Haitian prosecutor said yesterday.

LONDON (Reuters) – Volcanic ash from Iceland grounded 1,000 flights and delayed hundreds of thousands of passengers in parts of northern Europe yesterday, although forecasters said the situation would improve during the week.

Canada has joined the United Kingdom in urging an independent commission to probe allegations of grave human rights abuses and killings by the ‘phantom squad’ in Guyana and the government here says it already has a process in place for this.

Sometime after a man left a Crabwood Creek “wedding house” on Saturday night he was found dead on a dam with stab wounds about the body.

The issue of women being underpaid by employers  in breach of prior agreement was one of several issues which the Women and Gender Equality Commission (WGEC) will be examining in the near future.

A 22-year old New Amsterdam Technical Institute student is in a critical condition after he collided with a cow while riding along the public road in the area during the wee hours of yesterday.

A man, who sustained a stab wound to the left side of his neck, is in a serious condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Relatives of 31-year-old Liloutie ‘Pinky’ Seeram are offering a reward of $1M for information leading to the arrest of her husband, Rooplall ‘Kelly’ Boodhoo who is accused of murdering her on March 27.

The University of Warwick has renamed its Centre for Caribbean Studies after businessman Yesu Persaud and a ceremony in his honour was held at the Pegasus Hotel on Friday.

A 55-year-old security guard of Whim Village, Corentyne was yesterday afternoon in a semi-conscious state at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after he was attacked by several intruders at his work site.

Three persons were early yesterday morning left homeless after a fire of unknown origin totally destroyed their De Willem, West Coast Demerara home.

‘I don’t know what more to do? Why the police can’t arrest this man?

TEHRAN, (Reuters) – Turkey said yesterday Iran had  agreed on a nuclear fuel swap deal which could help end Tehran’s  stand-off with the West over its atomic programme.

HOUSTON/GALLIANO, La., (Reuters) – Energy giant BP  marked a limited success at containing the oil that is gushing  unabated into the Gulf of Mexico yesterday and said it may be  able to stop the flow permanently in about a week.

BANGKOK, (Reuters) – Thailand took a tough stand  against anti-government protesters yesterday, rejecting demands  for U.N.-supervised

– residents call for proper facilities, experienced doctors Eight months after it was commissioned with much pomp and ceremony the so-called state-of-the-art hospital at Lethem is being referred to by residents of the community and its surrounding areas as a white elephant.

The Ministry of Local Government supervised the construction of the Pomeroon/Supenaam ferry stelling and later issued a certificate of completion to BK International even though the completed project had obvious defects, Minister of Public Works Robeson Benn said yesterday.