Af­ter near­ly two decades of lit­i­ga­tion, a Flori­da ap­peals court has up­held a ju­ry ver­dict against Steve Fer­gu­son, find­ing him li­able for fraud, con­spir­a­cy, and vi­o­la­tions of Flori­da’s Civ­il RI­CO law over in­flat­ed con­tracts tied to the con­struc­tion of the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

Miss Uni­verse Trinidad and To­ba­go Dr Sih­lè Le­tren has an­nounced her res­ig­na­tion as ti­tle hold­er, step­ping down ahead of the Miss Uni­verse 2025 com­pe­ti­tion.

Three teens have been hos­pi­talised in crit­i­cal con­di­tion af­ter a shoot­ing at a sub­ur­ban Den­ver high school, au­thor­i­ties said Wednes­day.

This was con­firmed by Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen yes­ter­day.

With more than a decade of ser­vice at the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP), a 55-year-old sin­gle moth­er was among hun­dreds of work­ers left in tears yes­ter­day, af­ter they were giv­en ter­mi­na­tion let­ters.

Just days be­fore he was due to re­sume du­ties fol­low­ing months of va­ca­tion leave, Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer (CMO) Dr Roshan Paras­ram has been asked to ten­der his res­ig­na­tion.

Twelve of the na­tion’s top-per­form­ing stu­dents were cel­e­brat­ed yes­ter­day at the Pres­i­dent’s Medal Awards Cer­e­mo­ny 2025, which ho­n­oured re­cip­i­ents from 2023 and 2024.

That was the ques­tion from hu­man rights ac­tivist Sofia Figueroa-Leon yes­ter­day, fol­low­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s com­ments about re­cov­er­ing the car­cass­es of Venezue­lans killed in last week’s US mis­sile strike on a ves­sel al­leged­ly car­ry­ing drugs.

Fish­er­men in Ce­dros say the es­ca­lat­ing ten­sions be­tween the Unit­ed States and Venezuela in Caribbean wa­ters have now led them di­rect­ly in­to the path of pi­rates.

With the Colom­bian Pres­i­dent Gus­tavio Petro rais­ing con­cerns about the Sep­tem­ber 2 mil­i­tary strike by the US on a ves­sel leav­ing Venezuela, which re­port­ed­ly left 11 peo­ple dead, new de­tails are rais­ing doubts about the le­gal­i­ty and ne­ces­si­ty of the op­er­a­tion.

Venezuela’s Am­bas­sador to T&T, Ál­varo Sánchez Cordero, is dis­miss­ing re­ports that a re­cent US mil­i­tary airstrike near Venezue­lan wa­ters killed sus­pect­ed drug traf­fick­ers, de­scrib­ing the in­ci­dent as pos­si­bly fic­ti­tious.

A nine-year-old boy has been left trau­ma­tised, af­ter he was as­sault­ed and robbed of his cell­phone in a play park at­tack in San Fer­nan­do. The play­park is sit­u­at­ed at the back of the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion’s Ol­era Heights apart­ment build­ings.