Daily Archive: Saturday, January 2, 2016

Scenes from Old Year’s at the Square of the Revolution (Keno George photos)

Scenes from the Gravity night club on Old Year’s (photos by Keno George) 

Former President Donald Ramotar today defended former Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh over the controversial spending of $4.5b during Ramotar’s administration.

SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – West Indies captain Jason Holder believes parity in earnings will motivate players to focus more on international cricket instead of solely on the lucrative Twenty20 format.

Three men died yesterday in separate altercations at Mon Repos, Cane Grove and Tuschen, the police said today.

(Trinidad Guardian) Hundreds of people arriving at the Piarco International Airport on Old Year’s Night were forced to ring in the New Year, 2016, in Immigration, as there was a reported skeleton staff.

RIYADH, (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia executed a prominent Shi’ite Muslim cleric and dozens of al Qaeda members today, signalling it would not tolerate attacks by either sunni jihadists or minority shi’ites seeking equality, but stirring sectarian anger across the region.

Cramped in rickety wooden homes with no water, electricity or drainage, residents describe life in Plastic City, a depressed section of Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara as a real struggle.

Utility company, GPL’s power loss remains just over 29% of electricity generated.

Chairman of the Good Hope/Hydronie Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) is disappointed that despite his objections about substandard materials being used on a street at Hydronie, East Bank Essequibo, it has still been approved.

Nearly three months after controversial salary increases for Cabinet ministers were unveiled, the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) is still to issue a formal statement on it.