Two sep­a­rate com­pa­nies, linked to San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion coun­cil­lor Nigel Cout­ti­er and for­mer coun­cil­lor Jen­nifer Mar­ryshow, were award­ed near­ly $9.7 mil­lion in Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) con­tracts un­der the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment gov­ern­ment, an in­ves­ti­ga­tion by Guardian Me­dia’s In­ves­tiga­tive Desk has re­vealed.

Gov­ern­ment will know with­in four months whether the Petrotrin re­fin­ery in Pointe-a-Pierre can be restart­ed and what the cost of do­ing so will be.

At­tor­ney Mar­tin George, who is out on $150,000 bail af­ter be­ing charged with griev­ous sex­u­al as­sault and in­de­cent as­sault, is threat­en­ing to sue the Trinidad Ex­press news­pa­per over its re­port­ing of the mat­ter.

As a uni­ver­si­ty fo­cused on us­ing re­search for the up­lift­ment of its com­mu­ni­ty, The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St Au­gus­tine (UWI STA), the pre­mier ter­tiary in­sti­tu­tion in the re­gion pro­duc­ing world-class schol­ars, be­lieves sci­ence should be ac­ces­si­ble to the pub­lic.

Guyana will host the next IN­TER­POL Con­fer­ence in 2026, a move wel­comed by re­gion­al lead­ers as they strength­en ties with the world’s largest in­ter­na­tion­al po­lice or­gan­i­sa­tion to tack­le grow­ing or­gan­ised crime across the Caribbean.

For years, Iga Swiatek nev­er quite felt com­fort­able on Wim­ble­don’s grass courts, nev­er thought she could add a tro­phy there to her oth­er Grand Slam tri­umphs. Oh, did that turn out to be wrong. And how.

An in­tel­li­gence-led erad­i­ca­tion ex­er­cise on Fri­day in Mo­ri­ah, To­ba­go, re­sult­ed in the de­struc­tion of ap­prox­i­mate­ly $5 mil­lion worth of cannabis.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the rob­bery of a St James fur­ni­ture store that oc­curred on Fri­day morn­ing.

A large sum of cash, in­clud­ing US cur­ren­cy, was con­fis­cat­ed by po­lice af­ter a house search in Val­sayn on Fri­day.

A work­er's week­ly salary was among sev­er­al items stolen by ban­dits who stormed a gro­cery in En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas, on Fri­day night.

En­dorse­ments are con­tin­u­ing to pour in for Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar as she an­nounced in­ter­nal elec­tions for the post of Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC), just days af­ter throw­ing down the gaunt­let to chal­lengers with­in her par­ty.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s an­nounce­ment to in­crease the le­gal age lim­it for al­co­hol con­sump­tion, gam­bling, and mar­i­jua­na use has sparked con­cerns from the Own­ers Deal­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (ODA), which is call­ing for clar­i­ty on how the change will im­pact hir­ing laws and en­force­ment prac­tices.