A Care­nage man was shot dead by po­lice af­ter al­leged­ly point­ing a firearm at of­fi­cers while at­tempt­ing to evade cap­ture fol­low­ing a high-speed chase through Mal­abar and Ari­ma ear­ly Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

Pa­tients strug­gling to ac­cess med­ica­tion for chron­ic dis­eases, can­cer and some psy­chi­atric con­di­tions could see im­prove­ments, with Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe promis­ing ac­tion to ad­dress short­ages in the pub­lic health sys­tem.

Hun­dreds of vis­i­tors once again flocked to the Bloody Bay Recre­ation Grounds, To­ba­go, yes­ter­day to savour a culi­nary ex­pe­ri­ence root­ed in dasheen.  

To­ba­go's two Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment have pledged to work with the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment to ad­vance the is­land's de­vel­op­ment agen­da, de­spite con­cerns over a re­duc­tion in To­ba­go's di­rect al­lo­ca­tion un­der the 2027 na­tion­al bud­get.

While pri­vate se­cu­ri­ty com­pa­nies, owed an es­ti­mat­ed $75 mil­lion, say some Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) sites had no guards on Fri­day, Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath claims no WASA fa­cil­i­ty was left un­manned.

A High Court Judge has slammed the for­mer North West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NWRHA) board for reneg­ing on its promise to dis­close the re­port from its in­ter­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to a bac­te­r­i­al out­break at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal’s Neona­tal In­ten­sive Care Unit (NICU) unit that claimed the lives of sev­en ba­bies over a week in 2024.

A prison of­fi­cer and a po­lice of­fi­cer have lost their sep­a­rate but in­ter­twined cas­es over an in­ci­dent in which both were wound­ed when the po­lice of­fi­cer and his col­leagues at­tempt­ed to en­ter an apart­ment the prison of­fi­cer was stay­ing at.

A Diego Mar­tin man has been found not guilty of rap­ing his ex-wife when they were still mar­ried but sep­a­rat­ed.

A man has been ac­quit­ted of mur­der­ing a man in 2010, af­ter the State’s main wit­ness ad­mit­ted that she framed him.

Guyana will re­strict the im­por­ta­tion of vapes and va­p­ing prod­ucts un­less they are ap­proved by the rel­e­vant health au­thor­i­ties, Pres­i­dent Dr Mo­hamed Ir­faan Ali has an­nounced.

A 38-year-old man is ward­ed at Ari­ma Hos­pi­tal af­ter he was chopped sev­er­al times about the head dur­ing an al­ter­ca­tion at a bar in Va­len­cia.

The bat­tle be­tween So­cial De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Van­dana Mo­hit and Op­po­si­tion MP for Trinci­ty/Mal­oney Camille Robin­son-Reg­is over the man­age­ment of the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty in­ten­si­fied in Par­lia­ment on Sat­ur­day, with al­le­ga­tions of racial dis­crim­i­na­tion, ques­tions about the han­dling of chil­dren in State care and com­pet­ing claims over the Au­thor­i­ty’s fund­ing.