Guyana News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US authorities said yesterday they have broken up a spy ring that carried out deep-cover work in the United States to recruit political sources and gather information for the Russian government.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A popular gubernatorial candidate in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas was murdered by suspected drug hitmen yesterday in the worst sign so far of political intimidation by smuggling gangs.

Some teachers in the Ministry of Education’s Fast Track Initiative Literacy Pro-gramme are complaining about non payment of their monthly stipend, but National Coordinator of the programme, Murphy Greenidge said he instructed that payment for some teachers be withheld as they have failed to submit monthly progress reports.

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s son and handpicked heir has been elected to parliament but he will at best become a figurehead under a military-led collective leadership, news reports said today quoting a source.

Mae’s Under-12 student Sonia Ghir has topped this year’s National Grade Six Assessment.

Thirty-year-old police officer Quancy John was this morning charged with the murder of 16-year-old schoolboy Kelvin Fraser three weeks ago at Patentia, West Bank Demerara.

-several injured One person is dead and several others injured after two vehicles heading south along the Pearl Public Road on the East Bank of Demerara collided with each other and speeding was said to be a key factor.

A 33-year-old pork-knocker died after he was reportedly lashed in the head by another man on Saturday night following an argument at a Mahdia disco.

Medical staff were last night working around the clock to save the life of a baby  girl who was found in a garbage heap in Linden and taken to the Linden Hospital Complex.

Seven months after the case involving the Sacred Heart fire insurance scam was adjourned indefinitely, church officials are worried about its progress.

An Ithaca, West Coast Berbice woman who was reportedly beaten and chopped by a relative is currently a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

A 34-year-old Kwakwani porter was found hanging from the roof of his house on Saturday afternoon.

Regional industries need to be more competitive to drive economic growth, former British High Commissioner Fraser Wheeler has said, noting that tourism for instance has to stay abreast of changes.

Police have arrested a man after they discovered 2 kilos of compressed marijuana in a house at Wismar, Linden.

By Cathy Richards Workers who were fired from the Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc.

The Indian Arrival Committee in collaboration with the Broek en Waterland Mandir, Mahaica held a special service two Sundays ago to pay tribute to the late Hindu priest Shri Prakash Gossai.

A recent report which proffers a less than upbeat picture of the overall economic climate in Guyana has come in for severe criticism from Finance Minister; Dr.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – World leaders agreed yesterday  to take different paths for cutting budget deficits and making  their banking systems safer, a reflection of the uneven and  fragile economic recovery in many countries.

BISHKEK/OSH, (Reuters) – Kyrgyzstan’s leader said yesterday the country had voted to create Central Asia’s first  parliamentary democracy, in a landmark referendum only two weeks  after an explosion of ethnic bloodshed killed hundreds.

The World Bank Guyana office should reconsider its priorities, Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh says, accusing the Bank’s staff of having “one of the largest appetites for publicity and self-promotion” and seeking to increase their “creature comforts” by relocating to “a grand former colonial residence opposite one of the city’s most fashionable cafés”.