NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Pakistani-American admitted trying to detonate a bomb in New York’s busy Times Square and receiving bomb-making training in a known Taliban and al Qaeda stronghold in Pakistan, US prosecutors said yesterday.
The clothes vendor who was stabbed several times in his house on Monday is now recovering in the High Dependency Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital after undergoing emergency surgery.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said yesterday more UN sanctions against his country over its nuclear programme would not stop Iran but could permanently wreck its ties with the United States.
The PNCR salutes Guyanese of East Indian descent and those in the Diaspora as the country observes Indian Arrival Day.
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters ) – An Argentine judge yesterday ordered the arrest of the Dirty War dictatorship’s economy minister in an investigation into the kidnapping of a businessman and his son in 1976, a lawyer said.
The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) recognises the contributions Indians have made to the nation and posited that a sound moral foundation is vital to gaining more successes.
Dr Frederick Monderson in association with Professor Joycelynne Loncke donated a number of books on ancient history and articles on American history to the Chief Librarian of the National Library yesterday.
CARACAS (Reuters) – A US scientist is supporting a theory that has been widely dismissed as a personal obsession of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez: that his hero Simon Bolivar might have died from arsenic poisoning.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba’s government on Monday ousted its transportation minister and sugar minister, faulting their job performance, as President Raul Castro shook up his cabinet.
In a message to mark the 172nd anniversary of Indian Arrival Day in Guyana, the Justice For All Party (JFPA) urged that Guyanese follow the example set through the struggles of their ancestors who arrived on the Whitby and Hesperus.
DUBLIN/LONDON (Reuters) – Airspace over Scotland and Northern Ireland will be closed from early today because of volcanic ash that closed airports in Ireland yesterday and could threaten summer holiday travel.
ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Any links between Pakistan’s Taliban and a failed bombing in New York’s Times Square could put the country under renewed U.S.
– potentially ‘disastrous’, warns miners body Government is moving to limit the number of mining properties a miner can hold—a move the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) says is “disastrous” and will gradually destroy the industry.
A Laing Avenue man was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he underwent an operation after he was stabbed several times in his home by a man he had an argument with.
New York bomb suspect charged, arrests in Pakistan NEW YORK/ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – U.S.
A post-mortem examination (PME) yesterday revealed that it was crush injuries to the head caused by a wheel and a fractured skull that killed Bridgette Gangadeen whose mangled body was found on the roadway at Vigilance, East Coast Demerara.
Funeral home owners are worried about vandalism within Le Repentir Cemetery, which is running out of space for burial.
– one suspect in custody Inshan Ally, whose body was found at Goed Fortuin, West Bank Demerara on Friday died as a result of asphyxiation due to drowning and blunt cranial trauma, an autopsy yesterday revealed.
Kevin Roberts who succumbed five hours after he was hit by a bus succumbed to multiple injuries which he sustained, his relatives said.
By Janette Bulkan Notes The report on the Norway-Guyana MoU is an unusual event in the normally secretive apparatus of government in Guyana.
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