The Guyana gov­ern­ment has an­nounced plans to em­bark up­on the largest in­vest­ment in drainage and ir­ri­ga­tion in the coun­try’s his­to­ry as part of the Low Car­bon De­vel­op­ment Strat­e­gy (LCDS) 2030.

A UPS car­go plane crashed and ex­plod­ed in a mas­sive fire­ball Tues­day while tak­ing off from the com­pa­ny’s glob­al avi­a­tion hub in Louisville, Ken­tucky, killing at least sev­en peo­ple and in­jur­ing 11, au­thor­i­ties said.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has agreed with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar that tar­get­ed US bomb­ings of sev­er­al al­leged drug-smug­gling ves­sels off the coast of Venezuela in re­cent weeks have al­ready made a “mea­sur­able im­pact” on the lo­cal drug trade.

Venezuela’s Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro has called Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar a “war­mon­ger”, ac­cus­ing her of pro­vok­ing protests and march­es across Venezuela in re­cent days. He claims this un­rest stems from Trinidad and To­ba­go’s sup­port for US mil­i­tary ac­tions in the Caribbean.

At­tor­neys rep­re­sent­ing two men be­lieved to have been killed in a US strike on a boat in the south­ern Caribbean are re­quest­ing in­for­ma­tion from the State in re­la­tion to the in­ci­dent, which in­cludes de­tails from the Cen­tral In­tel­li­gence Agency (CIA) and Drug En­force­ment Agency (DEA).  

Herald­ing a “new dawn” for To­ba­go, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, in her ad­dress to the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA), un­veiled am­bi­tious plans for the is­land, in­clud­ing a greater share of na­tion­al fi­nan­cial re­sources, its own po­lice force, and im­proved ac­cess to wa­ter and hous­ing.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has pledged to es­tab­lish a cen­tre in To­ba­go to sup­port chil­dren with spe­cial needs, not­ing that as a grand­moth­er to a child with autism, she un­der­stands the chal­lenges in­volved.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says her vis­it to To­ba­go has noth­ing to do with pol­i­tics, even as the is­land heads to­wards an elec­tion.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says ten­sions be­tween the Unit­ed States and Venezuela will not af­fect To­ba­go’s tourism in­dus­try, nor will they threat­en the coun­try’s re­gion­al or na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has dis­missed spec­u­la­tion that the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) is be­ing used as a crime-fight­ing tool.

Promi­nent hu­man rights at­tor­ney Sub­has Pan­day has con­demned the on­go­ing de­ten­tion of peo­ple for months with­out charges at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al and Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre in Arou­ca, de­scrib­ing it as a “fla­grant breach of con­sti­tu­tion­al and hu­man rights”.

Days af­ter a three-month ex­ten­sion to the State of Emer­gency (SoE) was an­nounced, 16 pre­ven­ta­tive de­ten­tion or­ders were is­sued for peo­ple iden­ti­fied as be­ing part of or­gan­ised crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty, as crime-fight­ing ef­forts con­tin­ue na­tion­wide.