The Min­istry of Health is urg­ing cit­i­zens to take pre­ven­ta­tive ac­tion against mos­qui­to bites dur­ing the rainy sea­son.

A well-known busi­ness­man was shot and killed on Fri­day night while dri­ving home in Freeport, leav­ing fam­i­ly mem­bers and the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty in shock.

A year and a half af­ter launch­ing a dig­i­tal plat­form along­side two prod­ucts geared to­wards mid­dle to low-in­come earn­ers, Re­pub­lic Life In­sur­ance Com­pa­ny is once again hop­ing to cov­er a less tar­get­ed mar­ket.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath and for­mer min­is­ter un­der the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion, Mar­vin Gon­za­les, are now en­gag­ing in a heat­ed war of words over the on­go­ing de­lays in promised pay­ments to Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) con­trac­tors and work­ers, amid wider ten­sions sur­round­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s re­struc­tur­ing of the pro­gramme.

Of­fi­cers from the Fi­nan­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Bu­reau (FIB) are work­ing to trace the ori­gin of a quan­ti­ty of cash that was found at a Val­sayn home some­time be­tween Fri­day and yes­ter­day morn­ing.

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.

Last Tues­day, se­nior of­fi­cials from mu­nic­i­pal cor­po­ra­tions—both Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress and Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment-con­trolled—were sum­moned to a meet­ing with Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen, where she at­tempt­ed to de­vise a strat­e­gy to get in­tend­ed projects off the ground.

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.

Once en­trenched in drug traf­fick­ing, gang life and drug ad­dic­tion, Nicholas Con­stan­tine now leads a grow­ing con­gre­ga­tion at the Stream Free­dom Min­istries in Ch­agua­nas.

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.