Lara batting for positive community vibes
(Trinidad Guardian) Brian Lara is using the sport he knows best to reach out to the young people of T&T.
(Trinidad Guardian) Brian Lara is using the sport he knows best to reach out to the young people of T&T.
A court has ordered the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) to defend their controversial deal with Smart City Solutions (SCS) for the Georgetown metered parking system or face having it declared invalid.
In its strongest criticism yet of the APNU+AFC administration, the Private Sector Commission (PSC) says that affiliates who attended a meeting on Monday expressed a lack of confidence in the government’s managing of the economy.
Steffon Campbell, Faisal Moore and Ray Yokum were last evening each sentenced to 80 years in jail after a jury convicted them for the murder of Glen Xavier, who was fatally shot during a robbery at the Cornbread Mini Mart on the night of May 9, 2012.
Five men were yesterday remanded over the murder of Danian Jagdeo, a phone card distributor, on February 8, at Adventure, Corentyne during a robbery.
Prime Minister of Dominica Roosevelt Skerrit yesterday urged that Caricom member states vigorously pursue the issues that would advance the regional integration movement, while saying it is a necessity in an increasingly hostile international environment.
The promise of a 50% reduction in the parking rates in the city did not dissuade supporters of the Movement Against Parking Meters (MAPM) from taking to the streets again for a third protest against the implementation of the parking system yesterday.
Opposition parliamentarian Anil Nandlall yesterday criticised Attorney-General Basil Williams SC for his failure to schedule a follow-up meeting with him to discuss the criteria for the selection of nominees for the Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom).
The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has rehabilitated over 300 fire hydrants in Georgetown.
A Lethem man, said to be mentally ill, was yesterday charged with murdering a fellow villager.
Six persons lost their home after a midday fire devastated a South Ruimveldt house yesterday.
Continuous flooding is among several issues in Tucville-North Ruimveldt that still need to be addressed almost a year after the local government elections, where Mayor s was elected as the constituency’s representative.
The official logo for the planned Petroleum Commission was revealed yesterday by the Ministry of Natural Resources and is a composite of a number of designs in a competition that was won by Essequibo Coast youth, Noel Sukhai.
The sudden change in the scope of a project to construct a concrete bridge rather than a timber one at Yeovil, West Coast Berbice, at nearly twice the value of the original contract, and the failure to have the amended project retendered, was brought into question at the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament meeting on Monday.
A 20-year-old North Enmore man has been missing for three weeks and his family is fearful that he may be the victim of foul play.
A West Ruimveldt resident was on Wednesday sentenced to three years behind bars after a city magistrate found him guilty of breaking and entering the house of another and stealing home appliances.
A Dominican Republic national, charged with forging four immigration stamps and presenting her passport with them to an Immigration Officer, was yesterday remanded to prison after denying the charge.
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will issue a new executive order to replace his controversial directive suspending travel to the United States by citizens of seven mostly Muslim countries.
SEOUL, (Reuters) – Samsung Group chief Jay Y. Lee was arrested yesterday over his alleged role in a corruption scandal rocking the highest levels of power in South Korea, dealing a fresh blow to the world’s biggest maker of smartphones and memory chips.
LONDON, (Reuters) – The head of Britain’s Supreme Court has accused politicians of not doing enough to protect the independence of the judicial system when judges came in for harsh criticism from pro-Brexit newspapers last year.
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