Guyana News

SEOUL, (Reuters) – North Korea said yesterday it  had pardoned two jailed American journalists after former U.S. 

-$30M set aside for burnt out ministry In the absence of the opposition parties who boycotted yesterday’s sitting, the National Assembly passed the Supplementary Appropriation Bill (No.

LIMA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s president tried to rally  support yesterday for putting more U.S.

TEHRAN, (Reuters) – Two prominent defeated Iranian  presidential candidates said they would maintain their campaign  against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election, which has  sparked Iran’s worst unrest since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

-granted $300,000 bail Farood Mohamed, the man who allegedly caused the death of three persons as a result of dangerous driving, was yesterday placed on bail in the sum of $300,000 when he appeared before Magi-strate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

President Bharrat Jagdeo who is also CARICOM Chairman reiterated on Sunday in Jamaica  that investments in agriculture must reflect its priority to the region as the Caribbean seeks to ensure the security of its food supply.

ALGIERS, (Reuters) – About 100 Algerians and Chinese  migrant workers fought with knives and bludgeons in the capital  Algiers, witnesses said yesterday, in an unprecedented flare-up  of local anger at Chinese immigration.

Number 30 Village, West Coast Berbice was plunged into mourning yesterday afternoon when 9-year-old Keiana Fraser went missing after going for a swim.

ABUJA, (Reuters) – Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua  said yesterday he had ordered an investigation into the killing  of the leader of an Islamic sect behind a five-day uprising  which killed close to 800 people.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Three men have been charged with  terrorism offences, Australia’s Victoria state police said yesterday, following raids the previous day which police said  related to a plot to carry out suicide attacks on an army base.

Two critical after La Grange accident A motorcyclist and his pillion rider are in critical condition at the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) after colliding with a minibus along the La Grange Public Road, West Bank Demerara last evening.

-but opposition absent With only government MPs – who lamented the opposition’s absence – in attendance, the National Assembly yesterday approved a motion on the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) which “welcomes the commitment to public consultations including the parliamentary parties to the finalization of the strategy”.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Pop stars Beyonce and Lady Gaga  yesterday each earned nine nominations for next month’s MTV  Video Music Awards, more than any other artist, while Britney  Spears continued her musical comeback with seven nods.

A 42-year-old Guyanese man and his five-year-old son have both died after sustaining injuries when a personal jet ski smashed into a Long Island, New York dock on Saturday.

Confessed Guyanese drug trafficker Roger Khan will learn his fate at a sentence hearing scheduled for November 6, months after he pleaded guilty to charges against him that included drug trafficking and witness tampering.

Information flow within the Guyana Police Force received a boost yesterday with the commissioning of a data centre as part of ongoing efforts to modernize the institution.

FedEx Operations Manager in New York Manny Mancuso testified both in direct testimony and under cross-examination yesterday that his company had shipped from Guyana to Robert Simels’s NY office, items listed as documents, Panasonic laptops, Auto Data Recording Device computer base power supply and a flash drive.

Malika Boyd, a 32-year-old butcher, is the new GT&T Cellink Jingle and Song Competition winner.

The woman corporal, who is accused of being negligent by allowing two prisoners held in connection with arson at the Ministry of Health to escape custody, was yesterday placed on bail in the sum of $300,000 when she appeared before Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Warning that new allegations pointing to a link between government and a confessed drug trafficker pose a threat to national stability, opposition leader Robert Corbin yesterday reached out to the international community seeking support for an international probe.