SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – West Indies captain Jason Holder believes parity in earnings will motivate players to focus more on international cricket instead of solely on the lucrative Twenty20 format.
Three men died yesterday in separate altercations at Mon Repos, Cane Grove and Tuschen, the police said today.
(Trinidad Guardian) Hundreds of people arriving at the Piarco International Airport on Old Year’s Night were forced to ring in the New Year, 2016, in Immigration, as there was a reported skeleton staff.
RIYADH, (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia executed a prominent Shi’ite Muslim cleric and dozens of al Qaeda members today, signalling it would not tolerate attacks by either sunni jihadists or minority shi’ites seeking equality, but stirring sectarian anger across the region.
Cramped in rickety wooden homes with no water, electricity or drainage, residents describe life in Plastic City, a depressed section of Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara as a real struggle.
Utility company, GPL’s power loss remains just over 29% of electricity generated.
Chairman of the Good Hope/Hydronie Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) is disappointed that despite his objections about substandard materials being used on a street at Hydronie, East Bank Essequibo, it has still been approved.
Nearly three months after controversial salary increases for Cabinet ministers were unveiled, the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) is still to issue a formal statement on it.
SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – Selection chief Clive Lloyd believes the exodus of players like Chris Gayle, Andre Russell and Lendl Simmons to the lucrative Twenty20 circuit has definitely had a negative impact on the development of the West Indies Test side.
SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – West Indies legend Clive Lloyd has made a passionate plea for the international powers to offer more assistance to West Indies cricket.
Cognisant of a Press Statement issued by the Police Service Commission on December 31, 2015, in relation to the promotion of police ranks, the Guyana Police Force today said that it wished to clarify that the Police Service Commission wrote to the Commissioner of Police asking for the personal files of Officers, Inspectors and Sergeants since during October 2015 and also requested that identified ranks report to the Service Commission since then and this was complied with immediately.
About 0010h. today, the police say that Asif Hafeez, 24 years, of Crabwood Creek, Corentyne, Berbice, was imbibing with another man at Crabwood Creek when an argument ensued between them following which Hafeez was stabbed to his neck.
About 2200h. on December 30, 2015, a Brazilian miner, so far only identified as ‘Brian’, was working on a mining operation at Puruni Backdam when he was held up by a man armed with a firearm who fatally shot him to the neck and took away a quantity of raw gold, the police said today.
MUNICH, (Reuters) – Germany received a tip hours before midnight that named militants from Iraq and Syria were planning attacks in Munich but police have been unable to find the suspects and are not even sure if they exist or are in the country, the Munich police chief said today.
President David Granger yesterday shuffled two junior ministers and created the ministries of Natural Resources and Telecommunications to be headed by Raphael Trotman and Catherine Hughes respectively.
The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) is questioning the validity of the figures that were reflected in the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) report into GuySuCo, stating that the salaries of workers were grossly exaggerated.
On the occasion of the launch of Guyana’s 50th Independence Anniversary, President David Granger yesterday announced Medal of Service awards for a number of groups including the E R Burrowes School of Art, the Theatre Guild of Guyana and the Makushi Research Unit.
Government says it will not renew the contract for cash flush pilot Khamraj Lall’s hangar lease at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri and has notified him, resulting in his representatives here moving to the courts.
The Government of Guyana will be spending in excess of $60M to construct an all-weather access road to the Lusignan Landfill site to help ease the garbage problem caused by a fire at the main disposal facility on the East Bank of Demerara.
City Hall has ordered that all construction work being conducted at 81-82 Robb and Camp streets cease until such time as the developer has received appropriate permission from the City Engineer’s Department.
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