Guyana News

A Crabwood Creek, Berbice woman, who was abused by her husband on Monday while they were consuming alcohol, died after she reportedly fell from her stairs later that evening.

Caricom Secretary-General Edwin Carrington urged newly appointed chairman to the Council for Finance and Planning (COFAP) Karen Nunez-Tesheira to pursue the agenda for developing the CSME and joint initiatives to combat the effects that the global financial crisis continues to have on the Region.

–symposium hears Panellists at the first seminar in the University of Guyana 40th Republic Anniversary Public Symposia Series focused on Science and Technology said there is need for change in the management of natural resources, so that when they are exploited for livelihood it is not at the expense of the physical environment.

After seventy-five years of high-quality teaching and outstanding results at national examinations, St Margaret’s Primary School continues the tradition of improving the social and academic performance of its charges as reflected in its motto ‘To Be The Best I Can Be.’

KAMPALA (Reuters) – A landslide in eastern Uganda   has killed at least 80 people and villagers are digging with  bare hands and simple tools in the hope of finding survivors, a  government minister and Ugandan media said yesterday.

KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan promised yesterday to clarify restrictions on news coverage of Taliban strikes, and hinted it may row back from the most draconian measures, which amount to a total ban on filming during attacks.

The man who stabbed his 20-year-old reputed wife to death on Monday remained on the run up to press time last evening.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Naomi Campbell was wanted for questioned by New York police on Tuesday after her driver accused the British supermodel of assaulting him.

-Prof Dabydeen The establishment of the Caribbean Publishing House has created a much needed opening for emerging Guyanese writers to have their work published, its editor Professor David Dabydeen says.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California Attorney General Jerry Brown formally announced on Tuesday his run for governor of the economically troubled state, becoming the only high-profile Democrat facing a Republican field led by former eBay Inc CEO Meg Whitman.

The Chinese Association is currently hosting the China Jing Zhen Art Porcelain Trade Fair at its Brickdam headquarters, offering the public a chance to obtain unique and decorative vases, wall paintings and Chinese handmade porcelain artefacts.

CONSTITUCION, Chile (Reuters) – Chile’s government  used helicopters and boats to speed up the delivery of food to  hungry survivors on Tuesday as the death toll rose to nearly  800 three days after a devastating earthquake and tsunami.

The quality of processed foods distributed locally and products which are manufactured for export are the focus of a renewed health sector campaign aimed at promoting better standards.

PARIS (Reuters) – The widow of Rwanda’s former  President Juvenal Habyarimana, who is suspected of having  instigated the country’s 1994 genocide after her husband’s  death, was briefly arrested near Paris  yesterday.

A fisherman was yesterday remanded to prison for allegedly having carnal knowledge of an 11-year-old girl.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Chief Justice John Roberts  of the US Supreme Court rejected on Tuesday a request from  opponents of gay marriage to put on hold a new law that allows  same-sex couples to wed in Washington, DC.

BOSTON (Reuters) – Spanish police have shut down a  ring of computer hackers who infected more than 13 million PCs  with a virus that stole credit card numbers and other valuable  data in what may be the biggest cyber raid to date.

A Brazilian man, arrested for allegedly stealing a bicycle, was remanded after a court was told he was wanted in connection with the murder of a policeman in his native country.

DUBAI (Reuters) – Dubai’s police chief plans to  seek the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and  the head of Israel’s spy agency over the killing of a Hamas  leader in the emirate, Al Jazeera television reported.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US aerospace and  defence industry is urging House of Representatives lawmakers  to reject a measure that would call a World War One-era  massacre of Armenians by Turkish forces genocide, warning it  could jeopardize US exports to Turkey.