Guyana News

A man was struck down and killed by a vehicle on the Park, Mahaicony public road last evening.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama’s  national security advisers are considering a broad range of  options to curb Iran’s nuclear programme, among them military  strikes, if diplomacy and sanctions fail, Pentagon officials  said yesterday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Global finance leaders  face fractious talks this week on how to shift more voting  power at the World Bank to emerging economic heavyweights such  as China, a prelude to a bigger fight over the IMF.

LONDON (Reuters) – Officials hope to significantly  increase flights at the start of Europe’s new working week today and EU ministers will hold talks as pressure builds for a  solution to the 5-day-old air travel crisis.

NICOSIA (Reuters) – Turkey said yesterday it  wanted to tackle the problem of Cyprus’ ethnic division within  eight months after nationalist Dervis Eroglu won the presidency  in northern Cyprus, which relies on Ankara for its existence.

KRAKOW, Poland (Reuters) – The leaders of Poland  and Russia attending the state funeral of Polish President Lech  Kaczynski said yesterday his death in a plane crash in Russia  must serve as a catalyst for reconciliation between the two  Slavic nations.

-bought from gov’t for $1.5M, sold for $38M Presidential Advisor, Odinga Lumumba netted millions in a controversial land deal back in 2008, as official documents for the transaction show he purchased the land from government for $1.5M but later sold it off to an overseas businessman for $38M.

Accusations of sexual assault which have been levelled against broadcast CN Sharma, increased yesterday as three other young women made allegations of their own to authorities, among them being a 12-year-old girl.

The taxi driver who was shot thrice last week on Princes Street under unclear circumstances succumbed to his injuries early yesterday morning at the Georgetown Hospital and his relatives as well as investigators are still trying to ascertain the motive for the attack.

A driver who is now in police custody ran over a motorcyclist at Shirley Field Ridley Square on Mandela Avenue last night and drove off leaving passers-by to rush the wounded man to the hospital where he later died.

LONDON (Reuters) – Europe’s air travel chaos  deepened yesterday as a huge cloud of volcanic ash spread  southeast across the continent, halting more than three in four  flights and stranding tens of thousands of passengers worldwide.

Four men broke into a parked car at Peter’s Hall, East Bank Demerara and one was reportedly shot after a licensed firearm holder confronted them, but the men managed to escape.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Barack  Obama accused opposition Republicans yesterday of spreading  misinformation about a Democratic bill that aims to tighten  oversight of Wall Street banks and their practices.

Government will start digging the canals for the construction of the much debated Hope Relief Canal shortly and is moving ahead with the project in spite of the various negative comments from persons with “political interests,” Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud told residents of Hope Estate on the East Coast of Demerara yesterday.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – A former Vatican  cardinal who congratulated a French bishop for hiding a sexually  abusive priest has said he acted with the approval of the late  Pope John Paul, a Spanish newspaper reported yesterday.

Dr Richard Van West Charles has signalled his support for Winston Murray as the PNCR’s presidential candidate, saying he should lead the party to next year’s polls either on its own or as part of an alliance.

QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuador will propose  legislation to take over operations of oil companies in the  country unless the firms sign new contracts aimed at increasing  state control over the sector, President Rafael Correa said yesterday.

-NPC chairman Seven years after receiving funds to build an aviary the National Parks Commission (NPC) still has the money in a bank account and blames the stalling of the project on an ambitious design and a global downturn.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Liberal Democrats  overtook their rivals for the first time to lead an opinion poll  yesterday, increasing the prospect of a hung parliament where  no party has outright control.

University of Guyana (UG) student Ganesh Mahipaul, who accused lecturer Evan Persaud of victimization, said he was disappointed about the pace of the ongoing investigation calling it “slothful” and was also concerned about neutrality.