Cheryl Springer

Federal prosecutors and lawyers for Guyanese businessman Ed Ahmad, who has been indicted in a $50 million mortgage fraud scheme, have reached a plea arrangement.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Moscow accused the United States today of using its aid mission in Russiato meddle in politics and influence elections, a charge likely to push relations between the former Cold War foes to a new low after Vladimir Putin’s return to the Kremlin.

BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinafor the first time today implicated former senior politician Bo Xilai in a criminal act while avoiding naming him directly in a published account by state media of the trial of his one-time police chief.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The assault on the US consulate in Benghazi last week in which four Americans died was a “terrorist attack” that may have had an al Qaeda connection, a top US counterterrorism official told Congress today.

Pain, rage and raw emotion boiled over this afternoon during the funeral service for 17-year-old Shaquille Grant, who was shot and killed by members of the Guyana Police Force on September 11, 2012.

The National Milling Company of Guyana Inc (Namilco) will institute a 6% across-the-board increase in the price of flour with effect from September 21 as a result of the increased price of grains including wheat.

SALIMA/BEIJING  (Reuters) – Malawians bill their country as the “Warm Heart of Africa” and pride themselves on a reputation for friendliness.

CHENGDU, China (Reuters) – A former police chief at the centre of China’s biggest political scandal in decades admitted attempting to defect to the United States, and did not contest charges of bribery and illegal surveillance at his trial today, a court official said.

(Reuters) – The Boy Scouts of America could face a wave of bad publicity as decades of records of confirmed or alleged child molesters within the US organization are expected to be released in coming weeks.

KABUL (Reuters) – Protesters in Afghanistanand Indonesia burnt US flags and chanted “Death to America” today in renewed demonstrations over a film mocking the Prophet Mohammad that has unleashed a wave of anti-Western sentiment in the Muslim and Arab world.

SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) – Some major Japanese brandname firms announced factory shutdowns in Chinatoday and urged expatriates to stay indoors ahead of what could be more angry protests over a territorial dispute between Asia’s two biggest economies.

A 47-year-old registered nurse is expected to appear before a Port of Spain magistrate tomorrow charged with possession of 500 grammes of cocaine worth an estimated $100,000.

(Trinidad Express) – Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley yesterday invited all churches, unions and the people of Trinidad and Tobago to march with him tomorrow at 1 p.m.

(Jamaica Observer) – THE police are now investigating a case of double murder following yesterday’s discovery of the bodies of missing deputy security chief of the Post and Telecommunications Department, Barrington Davis and his female companion, Patricia Lurmot-Barnswell.

Ruqayyah Boyer won the Miss Guyana Universe crown on Saturday night, beating out ten other contestants and will represent Guyana at the Miss Universe Pageant in Santo Domingo on December 11.

WASHINGTON/KHARTOUM (Reuters) – The United States ordered non-essential staff to leave its embassies in Tunisiaand Sudan yesterday after both diplomatic posts were attacked and Khartoum rejected a US request to send a platoon of Marines to bolster security at its mission there.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Rapper Nicki Minaj and country singer Keith Urban have signed up as judges for TV singing contest “American Idol,” Fox television said today.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Medieval fantasy “Game of Thrones” led the winners at the Creative Arts Emmys yesterday in a ceremony that also honoured Kathy Bates for channeling Charlie Sheen on “Two and a Half Men” but shut out Emmy darling “Mad Men.”

Seventeen-year-old Shaquille Grant, who was killed during a police operation in Agricola earlier this week, was shot 3 times,  AFC chairman and attorney at law Nigel Hughes said a post-mortem examination (PME) conducted this morning revealed.

A police constable attached to the Berbice Narcotics Branch was early this morning found dead, shot to the head execution-style, according to Commissioner of Police Leroy Brumell, who opined that the policeman knew his killer.