Guyana News

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.

A minibus conductor will have to pay a $15,000 fine after he pleaded guilty to exposing his private parts to a 13-year-old girl.

Okemo Todd suffered years of abuse at the hands of her reputed husband and early yesterday morning was brutally stabbed to death during a heated argument.

Police are investigating the death of a 29-year-old man whose burnt remains were found moments after he returned home in a suspected drunken state.

An afternoon of fun for a group of boys ended in tragedy yesterday when one of them drowned in a “backwash lagoon” at the Guyana Water Incorporated’s (GWI) Central Ruimveldt Iron Removal treatment plant.

– US report Bribes and coercion see Guyana’s dons continuing to operate with impunity despite some strides made by local law agencies in investigating drug crimes, the 2010 US State Department Inter-national Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) has found.

Guyanese Dr Suresh Narine has been awarded a Cdn$1.25M Ontario Research Chair in Green Chemistry and Engineering from his alumnus Trent University in Ontario, Canada.