The Guyana Po­lice Force (GPF) says the death of 11-year-old Adri­ana Younge has now been of­fi­cial­ly ruled a drown­ing, with no signs of foul play.

Ukrain­ian Pres­i­dent Volodymyr Ze­len­skyy met with new Ger­man Chan­cel­lor Friedrich Merz in Berlin on Wednes­day as Ukraine seeks fur­ther mil­i­tary sup­port amid a re­cent es­ca­la­tion in Rus­sia’s bomb­ing cam­paign, de­spite U.S.-led ef­forts to end the war.

An­na-Lise al­ready has se­cured a po­si­tion in the quar­ter­fi­nals of the com­pe­ti­tion with her win in the fast-track Head to Head Chal­lenge. She al­so placed in the Sports and Tal­ent cat­e­gories.

While he main­tains that the well-be­ing of po­lice of­fi­cers is crit­i­cal for their or­gan­i­sa­tion’s crime-fight­ing suc­cess, Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der is urg­ing of­fi­cers not to abuse their sick leaves and to re­port to du­ty as ex­pect­ed.

With a sharp in­crease in fa­tal shoot­ings in­volv­ing po­lice of­fi­cers, the Po­lice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent ASP Gideon Dick­son agrees with Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der that the safe­ty of of­fi­cers is para­mount.

A man from east Port-of-Spain has been freed of shoot­ing at a group of po­lice of­fi­cers in­clud­ing re­cent­ly ap­point­ed Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der, over two decades ago.

Al­though the State of Emer­gency (SoE) end­ed on April 13 and re­sult­ed in 14 peo­ple be­ing charged with crim­i­nal of­fences, in­ves­ti­ga­tions have con­tin­ued.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath met with em­ploy­ees of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) yes­ter­day, some of whom he says were “on the chop­ping block” un­der the pre­vi­ous Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion.

While he wel­comes the in­volve­ment of at­tor­neys in shap­ing stand your ground leg­is­la­tion, Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der is adamant that voic­es from “all walks of life” must al­so be in­clud­ed in the con­sul­ta­tive process for any law or pol­i­cy.

The moth­er of mur­dered teen foot­baller Zwade Al­leyne yes­ter­day called on politi­cians to set aside their dif­fer­ences and ad­dress gun vi­o­lence in the coun­try.

Se­nior po­lice of­fi­cials are yet to re­ceive any cor­re­spon­dence from the De­fence Min­istry man­dat­ing them to reg­is­ter three of the re­cent­ly re­turned de­por­tees on the Pub­lic Sex Of­fend­ers Web­site.

A 52-year-old man from Beetham Gar­dens has been charged with the mur­der of a tod­dler who died from in­juries sus­tained while in his care back in 2023.