Daily Archive: Sunday, January 2, 2022

The police today said that a woman of Belvedere Village, Corentyne, Berbice, Meliene Magalie reported that that she had been beaten by her husband on Old Year’s Night and her abode later set afire.

CAPE TOWN,  (Reuters) – A fire at the South African parliament caused extensive damage today, collapsing the roof and gutting an entire floor in one building, with firefighters partially containing the blaze after several hours.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States yesterday cut Ethiopia, Mali and Guinea from access to a duty-free trade program, following through on President Joe Biden’s threat to do so over alleged human rights violations and recent coups.

CAPE TOWN,  (Reuters) – President Cyril Ramaphosa lauded the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu as “our moral compass and national conscience” as South Africa bade farewell at a state funeral yesteday to a hero of the struggle against apartheid.

(Trinidad Express) The station diary at the Carenage Police Station states that businessman Adrian Scoon called Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi while there and being questioned in connection with the party on board the MV Ocean Pelican on Boxing Day.

(Trinidad Guardian) Veteran calypsonian The Mighty Bomber has died. Bomber, whose real name is Clifton Ryan, passed yesterday at the age of 93.

(Trinidad Express) Fire officers believe a sky lantern or fireworks may have caused a New Year’s morning fire in East Port of Spain which destroyed four homes, damaged two cars and caused a power outage after an electricity pole was incinerated.

A Venezuelan man whose name the police gave as  Animal Sonja, 51,  of Valencia, Venezuela was fatally beaten on New Year’s Day at Arau mountain top, Cuyuni River.

As over $1 billion owed by the Panamanian government to the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) for rice sold to the country remains in limbo, a proposal is being put forward for consideration by the GRDB to offer a commission to millers.

At a press conference held on Friday in the boardroom of City Hall, City Engineer, Colvern Venture expressed his dissatisfaction with the accomplishments of his department for the year 2021.