Guyana News

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A White House assessment of  the war in Afghanistan concludes that Pakistan’s military  avoided direct conflict this spring with the Afghan Taliban and  al Qaeda militants, partly for political reasons.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – After 20 years of making his  living unlawfully by dressing up like a Cuban revolutionary and  posing for tips for tourist photos in Old Havana, 64-year-old  Omar is now hoping he can make a legal career of it.

A man accused of snatching a woman’s gold band off her hand yesterday said he wanted to plead guilty just to avoid the stress of having to go to court.

The Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) has applied to the Ministry of Labour for arbitration in its wage dispute with the Oldendorff Carriers Guyana Inc after conciliation talks between the union and the company collapsed.

A just-concluded forestry stakeholders’ workshop on the EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Programme is a signal of Guyana’s willingness to boost its “outstanding track record” in forestry management, according to Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud.

MADRID,  (Reuters) – Spanish police will go to Colombia  to question nine ex-members of guerrilla group FARC as part of a  probe into alleged links between FARC, the Venezuelan government  and Basque separatists ETA, a legal source said yesterday.  

Of roughly 300 GuyExpo 2010 booths only about 23 showcased locally manufactured products while there was a much larger number of food and beverage stalls which catered to the big crowds.

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) in French Guiana met in Georgetown recently with local stakeholder entities to discuss furthering business relations.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Plans in Cuba and neighboring  Bahamas to develop offshore oil fields may open big new oil  frontiers at the doorstep of the United States, but the Cuban  project has sparked opposition in next-door Florida reflecting  the usual antagonistic U.S.-Cuba

HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Some Chinese cigarettes  contain amounts of lead, arsenic and cadmium that are three  times higher than levels found in Canadian cigarettes, a study  has found.

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry granted $75,000 bail to a 24-year-old Annandale woman accused of receiving a stolen cellular phone.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Two years after it was posted  on YouTube, a video that appears to show an Israeli soldier  dancing around a blindfolded and bound Palestinian woman  detainee has gone viral on the Internet.

The new Board of Directors of the Bishops’ High School hosted a staff development session for teachers aimed at defining a quality education and examining how it shapes the characteristics of the school’s ideal graduate.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – White House spokesman Robert  Gibbs yesterday denied a report that Vice President Joe  Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton might swap jobs  for the 2012 presidential campaign.

A woman accused of using a knife to rob another of a cell phone was on Monday remanded to prison when she appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

`We have upped our anti crime status of operations’ In the wake of three chilling high-voltage shootings that have claimed the lives of eight, the police yesterday issued a warning to “all gangs, groups or persons” involved that it is prepared to act condignly against them.

-suspects remain in custody Months before Neesa Lalita Gopaul’s body was found at Emerald Tower she told relatives that she was locked in her room by her mother’s lover and also sent emails to a US-based relative in which she reportedly spoke of other instances of abuse, drug use and her father’s “suspicious” death.

Some 20 persons were last evening counting their losses after a fire of unknown origin gutted their one-flat, two-bedroom concrete home at Lot 663, Mandela Avenue, East Ruimveldt yesterday afternoon.

A new airline is soon to be launched in Barbados that will offer low fares to Guyana and the wider Caribbean.

-over $1m snatched from Goedverwagting business A doctor/importer narrowly escaped death yesterday when armed bandits fired a bullet at his head before fleeing with local and US currency along with other items which they had found while ransacking his Goedverwagting Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara home.