Some 700 workers from the state-run Guyana Power and Light Company went on strike Thursday to demand a 10 percent pay increase, prompting the government to call for emergency negotiations to avoid power blackouts.

A man who paid $9,000 to have his girlfriend smuggled in from Guyana stabbed her to death in Brooklyn yesterday after she tried to break up with him, police said.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana?A Canadian Embassy employee has been charged with fraud on suspicion of forging 12 passports. Guyanese authorities also arrested a man who is accused of using one of the fake passports.

Dwarfed by its larger neighbors, Guyana is often neglected by the international community; but for President Jagdeo, the country presents an enormous challenge.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - Police will be asked to protect sensitive witnesses providing testimony and evidence to an investigative commission looking into allegations of a government-sponsored death squad, the commission's chairman said yesterday.

A seventh defendant is in custody in the armed smash-and-grab robbery of a Brighton jeweler.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, June 24 (Reuters) - Gunmen on Thursday shot and killed a key witness in a Guyana death squad case who claimed the interior minister was linked to extrajudicial killings of several criminals, police officials said.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - The Finnish ambassador was robbed at gunpoint, a day after he presented his credentials to the government, police said yesterday.

A West Coast Berbice shop owner was shot in the eye and his wife severely beaten by bandits who got away with over $1M in cash and jewellery.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - The death of a teenage beauty pageant queen who was beaten and strangled while fighting three other women was due to a heart condition, an autopsy report said Wednesday.