Guyana News

The Multiracial Patriotic Movement (MPM) has been launched with the intent of transforming the socioeconomic processes of the country by changing the “backward thinking” of entrenched racism, according to its leader Lin-Jay Harry-Voglezon.

A policeman was early yesterday morning stabbed and robbed by two bandits.

One man is dead and two others are in critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) following three separate accidents yesterday.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has expressed alarm at a reported threat by the Guyana Agricultural and General Worker’s Union (GAWU) to have workers embark on a nationwide strike today over an across-the-board increase in wages and salaries.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – French truck drivers said they  would block key roads from last evening and rail unions  announced new strikes from today, putting fresh pressure on  President Nicolas Sarkozy over his unpopular pension reform.

-sees plan to postpone polls to 2013 Alliance For Change (AFC) Chairman, Khemraj Ramjattan says the administration’s order to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to submit ads and notices for publication through government’s procurement website is ultimately part of moves to postpone general elections to 2013.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Green Party opted yesterday to remain neutral in the country’s Oct.

A search party formed by residents of Port Kaituma in an effort to recover the booty stolen by three men last Friday on the community’s waterfront came up empty-handed yesterday.

The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG), in the wake of the gruesome murder of teenager   Neesa Gopaul,  is urging that every community be made “vividly aware”  of the agencies and officials responsible for investigating real or alleged child abuse.

BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – At least 12 people died when  gunmen swooped on a row of goldsmiths’ shops in a brazen robbery  in the Iraqi capital on Sunday and ended up in a gunfight with  security forces, police and military sources said.

Two persons are in police custody following the  murder of a woman whose body was found in a pool of blood in her Columbia, Essequibo Coast home on Saturday afternoon.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Gunmen shot to death at least 29  people in Pakistan’s commercial hub Karachi over the weekend,  deepening tensions as a by-election was held to replace a  lawmaker who was murdered in August.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Pentagon said yesterday  it had a 120-member team prepared to review a massive leak of  as many as 500,000 Iraq war documents, which are expected to be  released by the WikiLeaks website sometime this month.

Two men who appeared at the New Amsterdam Court before Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo on Monday, charged with larceny of sheep were granted their pre-trial liberty in the sum of $25,000 each.

The Lima water treatment plant in Region Two, constructed at a cost of $400M,  is providing potable water to residents from Queenstown to Walton Hall with a five million litre production capacity per day,  the Government Information Agency said in a press release.

Three men were on Friday charged with using a gun to rob a woman of a smart phone and cash when they appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

KUWAIT, (Reuters) – A crowd angry about a programme  they deemed insulting to some members of Kuwait’s ruling family  stormed a Kuwaiti private television station yesterday,  ransacking its offices, station officials said.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux  said yesterday that French had been warned by Saudi Arabia that  al Qaeda was targeting Europe and especially France.

–alleges ex-boyfriend’s  relative behind it Months after severing her relationship with a man, Stephanie Broomes says she is being harassed by police as they act on trumped up allegations against her made by the man and his current girlfriend.

Several dozen persons were this evening undergoing treatment for suspected food poisoning at hospitals in Berbice and Georgetown after eating food served at a retreat coordinated by the ‘B’ Division Community Policing Group in the Ancient County.