Guyana News

A special six-week literacy and numeracy training programme for Grade Six students in all primary schools began yesterday.

PARIS/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – An Air France plane was believed to have crashed into the Atlantic Ocean yesterday after hitting stormy weather en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, likely killing all 228 people on board.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Taliban militants in northwest Pakistan kidnapped up to 400 students from a military-run college, with teachers and relatives, yesterday as they were travelling in minibuses, police said.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday denied media reports the United Nations has covered up a high civilian death toll during the bloody final phase of Sri Lanka’s war against Tamil Tiger rebels.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Concert promoter Live Nation said yesterday it will waive service fees for general admission at hundreds of concerts on sale for a 24-hour stretch this week.

LONDON (Reuters) – British finance minister Alistair Darling apologized yesterday and agreed to repay 350 pounds ($574) after he became the latest minister to be dragged into a scandal over expenses claimed by members of parliament.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Girls can do just as well at math as boys — even at the genius level — if they are given the same opportunities and encouragement, researchers reported yesterday.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama has awoken hope for redress of grievances in the hearts of some of the more than a billion Muslims scattered in diverse communities across the globe.

A 29-year-old father of one appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Friday charged with unlawfully assaulting the mother of his child.

—Robert Simels Drug smuggler Roger Khan was trained in the use of the triangulation equipment found in his possession in 2002 by representatives of the UK company which had manufactured it, and which the Spy Shop in the US had purchased on behalf of the Guyana government, according to Khan’s former lawyer Robert Simels.

-after squabbling between PPP/C and PNCR members A meeting to hear the concerns of persons living in Yarrowkabra on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway ended in disarray as residents witnessed squabbling between members of the PPP and PNC.

KANSAS CITY,  Mo (Reuters) – A Kansas doctor who  was a controversial provider of so-called “late-term” abortions  was shot and killed in the foyer of his Wichita, Kansas, church  yesterday, and police said they captured the man responsible.

– relatives The Guyanese couple found dead at separate homes in New Jersey last Thursday morning, weeks after ending a long-term relationship, had been going through “a rough patch” for a good while.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani forces consolidated  their hold on the main town in the Swat valley yesterday and  began trucking supplies to 40,000 civilians stranded there, as  fighting flared in South Waziristan on the Afghan border.

The Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) has advised the police to conduct further investigations into the multi-million fraud which was discovered at Republic Bank (Guyana) last November and two persons arrested have since been placed on bail, according to Crime Chief Seelall Persaud.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Muslim groups and individuals  should not use weapons of mass destruction against non-Muslim  countries partly because any attack could also kill Muslims,  Egypt’s state-appointed Grand Mufti said yesterday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and Cuba  have agreed to resume direct talks on migration, last held in  2003, and open discussions on establishing direct mail service  between the two countries, a U.S.

-monthly electricity bill a major burden Citing the monthly electricity bill as a major burden on its operations, the Theatre Guild of Guyana is seeking financial and in-kind support from the general public including corporate Guyana to upgrade aspects of the state-of–the art facility, including the performance and rehearsal areas and to install a small transformer to reduce electricity use.

Following discussions held during the Caricom organized Public-Private Sector Consultation on Agri-Business, participants have called for the establishment of a council that will advance regional public-private co-operation in the agriculture sector.

OSLO (Reuters) – Scientists asked people around the  world today to help compile an Internet-based observatory of  life on earth as a guide to everything from the impact of  climate change on wildlife to pests that can damage crops.