News

A fatal accident yesterday afternoon at Silver Hill, Soesdyke-Linden Highway has claimed the life of a pedestrian.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips is to lead a high-level government outreach today to the East Coast Demerara villages of Buxton/Friendship.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that a fully vaccinated Region Two man, 20, has succumbed to COVID-19.

A twenty-six-year-old minibus conductor yesterday morning succumbed to injuries sustained in an accident which occurred on Friday night.

A brawl at the Route 42 Bus Park in the vicinity of the Stabroek Market has left a man hospitalised with stab wounds and another with a gunshot wound.

YIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine’s forces have withdrawn from the bombed-out city of Lysychansk, prompting Russia to claim full control of the eastern Luhansk region, a key Kremlin war goal, but President Volodymyr Zelenskiy vowed to regain the lost territory.

The Cheddi Jagan International Airport Corporation has invited bids for the construction of a new administrative office building estimated to cost $906m.

(Reuters) – The congressional panel investigating last year’s attack on the U.S.

Some 100 residents of Sophia, Georgetown on Saturday benefitted from the government’s $250, 000 business grant, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

ALMATY,  (Reuters) – Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said yesterday there were casualties among civilians and law enforcement officers after rare protests in the Central Asian country, and an exiled opposition politician said at least five people had been killed.

A security guard was on June 29th remanded to prison on a charge of attempted murder.

While upholding the right of citizens to agitate in the furtherance and defence of their interests, the Electoral Reform Group (ERG) says that it is appalled at the acts of rioting and looting that occurred on June 28 in connection with the protests related to the Quindon Bacchus killing. 

(Trinidad Express) On Saturday at around 5 p.m. Curtis Harriot Junior was gunned down at Debe.

COPENHAGEN,  (Reuters) – Three people were killed and several more were wounded in a shooting at a shopping centre in Copenhagen yesterday, Danish police said, adding they had arrested a 22-year-old Danish man and charged him with manslaughter.

The Police Complaints Authority (PCA) today said that it has recommended to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) that three cops be charged in relation to the fatal shooting of Quindon Bacchus on June 10.

The new Police Service Commission (PSC) yesterday announced a range of promotions including eight senior superintendents to Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) among whom are Calvin Brutus and Wendell Blanhum.

KYIV/KONSTYANTYNIVKA, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Russia said today its forces and their allies had taken control of Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region, after capturing the final Ukrainian holdout of Lysychansk, although Ukraine has yet to comment after reporting heavy fighting there.

(Trinidad Guardian) A total of 13 killings within 36 hours – between 5.50 am on Friday to 6 pm on Saturday – four of which were said to be police-involved shootings, saw law enforcement officials having to work late into the night on Saturday as multiple investigations got underway.

(Trinidad Guardian) Having failed to acquire Scotiabank’s assets in Guyana, state-owned First Citizens now says it is open to applying for banking licences in both Guyana and Jamaica and opening brick and mortar banks there, as it tries to grow beyond T&T.

The Inter-American Com-mission on Human Rights (IACHR) has denied the government’s request for a hearing before the full Commission on state violations of the rights of the Isseneru community and instead granted it a three-month extension to respond to the report of its findings.