For­mer OSH in­spec­tor Safraz Ali is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley to lay the Com­mis­sion of En­quiry Re­port in­to the Paria Div­ing Tragedy in Par­lia­ment as soon as pos­si­ble so that the Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health Agency and the po­lice could pre­fer charges against cul­pa­ble par­ties with­in the next six months.

As Venezuela pre­pares to hold a ref­er­en­dum to­day on the dis­put­ed Es­se­qui­bo ter­ri­to­ry, for­mer head of In­ter­na­tion­al Re­la­tions at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, Dr An­tho­ny Gon­za­les, says war is pos­si­ble be­tween the two neigh­bour­ing coun­tries.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed one man, seized am­mu­ni­tion and re­cov­ered a stolen ve­hi­cle, dur­ing ex­er­cis­es on Fri­day 1st, De­cem­ber 2023, in the Port-of-Spain and North Cen­tral Di­vi­sions.

Two men were ar­rest­ed and a firearm, am­mu­ni­tion and drugs seized dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es in West­ern Di­vi­sion last evening.

A pow­er­ful earth­quake with a pre­lim­i­nary mag­ni­tude of 7.6 struck Sat­ur­day off the south­ern Philip­pine coast, prompt­ing many vil­lagers to flee their homes in pan­ic around mid­night af­ter Philip­pine au­thor­i­ties is­sued a tsuna­mi warn­ing.

An­gos­tu­ra has con­firmed that while an in­ves­ti­ga­tion is on­go­ing in­to a fire on Fri­day at its premis­es along the East­ern Main Road, busi­ness op­er­a­tions will con­tin­ue as nor­mal.

Speak­ing at the Cunu­pia Mar­ket, Point-a-Pierre MP David Lee said “chaos” is every­where in T&T. Lee said his el­der­ly rel­a­tives from Diego Mar­tin had to suf­fer through a home in­va­sion when ban­dits pis­tol-whipped them and stole their ve­hi­cle.

Cunu­pia MP Van­dana Mo­hit says drones with pos­si­ble links to crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty has res­i­dents wor­ried.

Guyana’s agri­cul­ture sec­tor, specif­i­cal­ly the rice in­dus­try con­tin­ues to reap suc­cess de­spite the El Ni­no weath­er con­di­tion that is cur­rent­ly af­fect­ing the coun­try.

The Pro­gres­sive Em­pow­er­ment Par­ty (PEP) has ap­point­ed Lim­ma McLeod Wilkin­son as its new in­ter­im Po­lit­i­cal Leader.

Is­rael pound­ed tar­gets in the crowd­ed south­ern half of the Gaza Strip on Sat­ur­day and or­dered more neigh­bour­hoods des­ig­nat­ed for at­tack to evac­u­ate, dri­ving up the death toll even as the Unit­ed States and oth­ers urged it to do more to pro­tect Gaza civil­ians a day af­ter a truce col­lapsed.

The Trade Li­cence Unit (TLU) of the Min­istry of Trade and In­dus­try says it has not­ed an up­surge in the num­ber of re­port­ed cas­es of mem­bers of the pub­lic be­ing de­fraud­ed of their monies while at­tempt­ing to ob­tain for­eign used ve­hi­cles such as cars (SU­Vs, sedans and sta­tion wag­ons), pick-up trucks, pan­el vans and trucks.