Bids were opened on Tuesday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for the rehabilitation of the roundabout at the National Exhibition Centre, in Sophia, Georgetown, as well as repairs to the Prime Minister’s Official residence, among other projects.
KYIV, (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Moscow’s massive air and artillery attacks were aimed at destroying the entire Donbas region and urged Ukraine’s allies to accelerate the shipment of heavy weapons to match Russia on the battlefield.
Family and friends of Quindon Bacchus, the youth who was recently killed by a policeman, staged a protest outside of the Criminal Investigation Department headquarters, Eve Leary yesterday to demand justice.
OSLO, (Reuters) – Norway is ready to resume payments to Brazil over the prevention of the deforestation of the Amazon if there is a change of government in October’s elections as opinion polls suggest, the Nordic country’s environment and climate minister said.
By Dr. Graham King Dr. Graham King is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of the West Indies.
(Reuters) – The Texas school district police chief who has come under withering criticism for the police response to the Uvalde school massacre has been placed on administrative leave by the district and could lose his position on the Uvalde City Council.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Thousands of indigenous protesters held a peaceful march through Ecuador’s capital, Quito, yesterday to demand that President Guillermo Lasso address price rises that have ignited 10 days of demonstrations across the country.
On Monday, former National Community Police Group (CPG) Administrator, Ovid Glasgow (left) became the beneficiary of a new mountain bicycle courtesy of the Ministry of Home Affairs.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The United States will announce an offer of 300,000 work visas to Mexicans and Central Americans when the Mexican president visits Washington next month, Mexico’s interior minister said Wednesday.
(Trinidad Express) A man died aboard a Caribbean Airlines flight on Tuesday that was en route from New York, United States to Trinidad.
Suriname is set to receive a large quantity of food supplies for the many flood impacted residents there.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian President-elect Gustavo Petro, who won the country’s presidential election on Sunday, and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro discussed reestablishing normal relations at the border between the two countries, both leaders said on Wednesday.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Eight people who took care of soccer legend Diego Maradona will be tried in Argentina courts for homicide, according to a ruling released yesterday following an investigation into his November 2020 death due to cardiac arrest.
Ramps Logistics Guyana Inc – which has Trinidadian ownership – says it has been denied a local content certificate.
KABUL, (Reuters) – The death toll from an earthquake in Afghanistan today hit 1,000, disaster management officials said, with more than 600 injured and the toll expected to grow as information trickles in from remote mountain villages.
HELSINKI, (Reuters) – Finland has prepared for decades for a Russian attack and would put up stiff resistance should one occur, its armed forces chief said.
(Reuters) – Brazilian miner Vale SA VALE3.SA expects to spend $400 million in 2022 to decommission its tailings dams, aiming to have 12 of its 30 structures eliminated by the end of the year, the company told Reuters on Tuesday.
(Trinidad Express) A 49-year-old man was killed on Sunday evening in Tyrico in what police have described as “a freak motor vehicular accident”.
(Trinidad Guardian) Consumers should be prepared to pay almost $20 or, in some cases, even more for a two-kilo bag of flour effective today, as they will have to fork out as much as 28 per cent more on the retail price of flour, the National Flour Mills Limited has announced.
President Irfaan Ali yesterday announced the long-awaited Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the attempted rigging of the March 2nd 2020 general elections and the probe will be headed by retired Trinidad Justice of Appeal Stanley John.
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