Guyana News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US military will wrap up its formal earthquake relief mission in Haiti on June 1, although some assistance will continue beyond that date, a US military official said yesterday.

A Mackenzie man was remanded to prison on Tuesday, on charges of assault and threatening language.

PHOENIX (Reuters) – Arizona lawmakers passed a controversial immigration bill yesterday requiring police in the state that borders Mexico to determine if people are in the United States illegally, a measure critics say is open to racial profiling.

-letter sent to Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation Worried about unresolved land titling and a lack of meaningful participation in decision-making, the Amerin-dian Peoples Association (APA) has urged donors to ensure that indigenous peoples’ guaranteed rights are fully upheld in all forest conservation activities they finance here.

-major disaster averted Despite significant damage, what could have been a major disaster was averted when a section of the J&R Service Station at Nismes, West Bank Demerara caught fire last night.

Avasa Jagan and a friend were attacked and robbed outside her Charlotte Street, Georgetown, home early yesterday morning.

-sources Sources close to CN Sharma said that they understood he would appear at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court today, although Stabroek News was unable to get confirmation from the police last night.

-Trotman In the light of the first ever conviction for money laundering leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC) Raphael Trotman is calling for the law to be tested against some of the bigger players in the drug world and said he hoped the administration would be putting pressure on the US justice system to offer up information that could result in the seizure of assets locally.

A Ruby, East Bank Essequibo mother of eight is contemplating her next move after her home was damaged by a “demolition crew” a few weeks ago, and her son sustained a wound to his arm during the ordeal.

The Latin American Group is blocking Caricom attempts to have representation on the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Direc-tor of the Caribbean Aviation Safety and Security and Oversight System (CASSOS) Anthony Archer says.

– relatives Almost three years after a young mother of two was stripped naked then shot dead by a man she trusted, her relatives are still wondering about the motive and are beginning to accept that they might never know the answer.

Closer collaboration between villages and mining company, Romanex, is critical, residents said as a major gold mining project in southern Guyana is set to gain approval to begin operations.

A 25-year-old man is hospitalized at the Georgetown Public Hospital after being shot in his leg by police last evening at Mahaicony.

-body unidentified The police are investigating the suspected murder of an unidentified man whose body was found in the Stabroek Market area on Saturday night with stab wounds.

The police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the murder of a man at Konawaruk in Region 8 early yesterday.

A man was struck down and killed by a vehicle on the Park, Mahaicony public road last evening.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama’s  national security advisers are considering a broad range of  options to curb Iran’s nuclear programme, among them military  strikes, if diplomacy and sanctions fail, Pentagon officials  said yesterday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Global finance leaders  face fractious talks this week on how to shift more voting  power at the World Bank to emerging economic heavyweights such  as China, a prelude to a bigger fight over the IMF.

LONDON (Reuters) – Officials hope to significantly  increase flights at the start of Europe’s new working week today and EU ministers will hold talks as pressure builds for a  solution to the 5-day-old air travel crisis.

NICOSIA (Reuters) – Turkey said yesterday it  wanted to tackle the problem of Cyprus’ ethnic division within  eight months after nationalist Dervis Eroglu won the presidency  in northern Cyprus, which relies on Ankara for its existence.