Mount­ing con­cerns over garbage pil­ing up in car parks serv­ing 21 apart­ment build­ings in Mal­oney have trig­gered ur­gent calls for ac­tion from res­i­dents.

Class­es con­tin­ued as nor­mal on Mon­day at Rio Claro East Sec­ondary School amid as­sur­ances from the Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty that ad­di­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures are in place.

Re­gion­al Span­ish of­fi­cials said Mon­day that at least 40 peo­ple are con­firmed dead in a high-speed rail col­li­sion the pre­vi­ous night in the coun­try’s south when the tail end of a train jumped the track, caus­ing an­oth­er train speed­ing past in the op­po­site di­rec­tion to de­rail.

The Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) is promis­ing re­tirees that the union is near­ing fi­nal­i­sa­tion of their “10 per­cent” agree­ment.

The George­town Pub­lic Hos­pi­tal (GH­PC) in Guyana has con­firmed that an in­ves­ti­ga­tion has been launched in­to the death of a 22-year-old preg­nant woman, who is re­port­ed to have jumped to her death from a win­dow of the fe­male med­ical ward on the third floor of the build­ing.

The En­er­gy Cham­ber of Trinidad and To­ba­go says a re­vi­talised Venezuela oil in­dus­try could po­ten­tial­ly be one source for pro­vid­ing crude oil if the oil re­fin­ery in south Trinidad is re-start­ed.

The own­er of a Chi­nese restau­rant and bar in Ste Madeleine was found bound and blood­ied in­side his busi­ness on Sun­day night, in what po­lice be­lieve was a rob­bery-homi­cide.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge says he is not afraid for his life af­ter a man, who was de­tained un­der the State of Emer­gency (SoE) for a death threat to a Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cial, was re­leased ear­li­er this month.

The Gov­ern­ment is now look­ing to in­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors to sup­port the pro­posed Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSOs) bill af­ter it was re­ject­ed by all Op­po­si­tion Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment (MPs) present for the vote in the Low­er House on Fri­day.

The Gov­ern­ment has reached an agree­ment with the Swiss com­pa­ny, Pro­man, to set­tle the Cli­co En­er­gy case, on terms favourable to the coun­try, a se­nior Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cial told Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge is deny­ing re­ports that this coun­try was com­plic­it in the ex­trac­tion of oust­ed Venezue­lan pres­i­dent Nico­las Maduro by al­low­ing a Unit­ed States air­craft to use the coun­try’s air­port in the ex­trac­tion.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) PRO, Dr Kirk Meighoo, yes­ter­day said the pur­pose of hav­ing me­dia con­fer­ences on na­tion­al mat­ters at the par­ty’s head­quar­ters was be­cause that is the venue where na­tion­al poli­cies are cre­at­ed.