Meeting underway over security for World Cup
A meeting got underway yesterday on security for the upcoming T20 World Cup to be hosted in the Caribbean and the US next month.
Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill (right) met yesterday with residents of Silver Hill, Soesdyke-Linden Highway to address the deplorable state of the community’s main access road. During the engagement residents were assured that the thoroughfare will be rehabilitated and an alternate route is being explored for truckers fetching loam from the area. (Department of Public Information photo)
The quote, “Use a picture. It’s worth a thousand words,” is attributed to Arthur Brisbane, by two publications, The Post-Standard, a newspaper published in Syracuse, New York, and Printer’s Ink, the first American trade magazine dedicated to advertising.
Ruben Oselmo, 63, of Karrau Village was yesterday placed on $100,000 bail on a charge of sexual activity with a child under 16 years.
-believed to have been electrocuted A 36-year-old taxi driver’s motionless body was found by neighbours around midday on Sunday in a drain at his Lot 59 Church Street, Stanleytown, West Bank Demerara residence. The deceased, Rondel Wilson, is believed to have been electrocuted.
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– Minister Ramson, DoS Ninvalle silent on issue After initially revealing that the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) is receiving assistance from the Ministry of Culture, Youth, and Sport for the RAN 15s return encounter with Trinidad and Tobago, it has now been discovered that the support, while promised, is uncertain as the days continue to countdown to June 22nd.
National table tennis champion Chelsea Edghill experienced a setback in her bid to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games as she was eliminated from the International Table Tennis Federation’s (ITTF) Americas Olympic Qualification event in Lima, Peru, yesterday.
(CMC) – Nicholas Pooran struck his second half-century of the Indian Premier League to pass 400 runs for the campaign, but the Lucknow Super Giants crashed to a 19-run loss to Shai Hope’s Delhi Capitals to leave their chances of a playoff spot hanging in the balance.
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, (Reuters) – Brazil’s southernmost state capital may suffer severe flooding for weeks to come, experts warn, compounding the struggles of half a million people forced to abandon their inundated homes.
(Trinidad Express) The body of 16-year-old Sourav Nanan was found in Sangre Grande yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Police officer and drag racing enthusiast Dale ‘Rug Rat’ Mayers died after he was shot while at a bar in Longdenville, Chaguanas on Monday night.
HANDLOVA, Slovakia, (Reuters) – Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico suffered life-threatening injuries today when he was shot and wounded in an attempted assassination that stunned his small Central European nation and drew a chorus of international condemnation.
(Reuters) – A large wildfire is slowly approaching the major Canadian oil sands city of Fort McMurray and around 6,000 people in four suburbs have been told to evacuate, local officials said yesterday.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen faced aggressive questioning yesterday from the Republican presidential candidate’s defense lawyers, who sought to undermine Cohen’s testimony that Trump was intricately involved in a scheme to buy a porn star’s silence.