Daily Archive: Tuesday, January 2, 2024

President Irfaan Ali this afternoon announced that Minister of Public Service, Sonia Parag is to take up the post of Minister of Local Government.

The police today issued bulletins for three men over the attempted murder of Safraz Khan on July 6th last year on Austin Street, Campbellville.

Border controversy Venezuela has nothing to fear from activities in Guyana’s waters -President: Venezuela has nothing to fear from activities within Guyana’s waters, President Irfaan Ali said last week in an apparent response to Caracas’ concerns about a UK warship that is due to anchor off this country’s coast in the coming hours.

The GFS has defended its performance at a New Year’s Day fire at La Grange that left nine persons homeless.

BEIRUT/CAIRO/GAZA,  (Reuters) – Israel killed Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri in a drone strike in Lebanon’s capital Beirut today, Lebanese and Palestinian security sources said, as its forces kept pummelling parts of Gaza, vowing further “high-intensity” warfare against the Islamist militant group in the enclave.

(Trinidad Express) Five days after being snatched, El Socorro businesswo­man Anesha Narine-Boodhoo has been found.

RAFAH, Gaza Strip, (Reuters) – For the Maarouf family, living in Rafah’s tent city after fleeing their house in Gaza at the start of Israel’s deadly bombardment nearly three months ago, home is now the small campfire they sit around each night.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Saudi state TV said today that the kingdom had officially joined the BRICS bloc of countries.

In accordance with the Natural Resource Fund Act 2021 and the approved Budget 2023, the Government of Guyana made its eighth and final transfer, totalling US$152.1 million (equivalent to G$31.6 billion) from the NRF on December 27, 2023, to the Consolidated Fund.

Police ranks stationed at Brickdam in Georgetown have arrested a man who attempted to smuggle marijuana concealed in a bowl of soup into the Camp Street penitentiary.

(Trinidad Guardian) Basdeo Panday, who served as T&T’s fifth prime minister from 1995 to 2001, was the first person of Indian descent and the first Hindu to hold that office.

WEST QURNA 1 OILFIELD, Iraq, (Reuters) – U.S. energy giant ExxonMobil Corp XOM.N

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Former Australia captain Steve Waugh said South Africa’s decision to send a shadow side to New Zealand for a test tour while their top players take part in a domestic T20 tournament shows the longest format of the game is under threat.

WAJIMA, Japan, (Reuters) – At least 48 people were killed after a powerful earthquake hit Japan on New Year’s Day, with rescue teams struggling today to reach isolated areas where buildings had been toppled, roads wrecked and power cut to tens of thousands of homes.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A former employee of the world’s largest oil trader, Vitol, is set to go on trial in the United States this week on charges of bribing officials in Ecuador to win a $300 million contract from state oil company Petroecuador.

TOKYO,  (Reuters) – All 379 passengers and crew of a Japan Airlines plane miraculously escaped from a fire following a collision with a Coast Guard aircraft at Tokyo’s Haneda airport today, but five of the six crew of the coast guard plane were killed.