The Caribbean Ex­am­i­na­tions Coun­cil (CXC) and the Caribbean De­vel­op­ment Bank (CDB) have an­nounced a col­lab­o­ra­tive ef­fort to es­tab­lish a Re­gion­al Par­ent Teacher As­so­ci­a­tion (RP­TA), an en­ti­ty de­signed to uni­fy and strength­en par­ent-teacher en­gage­ment across the Caribbean.

Pope Fran­cis’ med­ical team briefly con­sid­ered sus­pend­ing treat­ment af­ter a Feb. 28 breath­ing cri­sis but in­stead de­cid­ed on an ag­gres­sive course that put his or­gans at risk, the doc­tor co­or­di­nat­ing the pope’s hos­pi­tal care said in an in­ter­view pub­lished Tues­day.

Two women who were sought as sus­pects in an acid at­tack have sur­ren­dered to po­lice, but have not been charged as of Tues­day morn­ing.

A 21-year-old Mar­aval man was cap­tured by po­lice hours af­ter he and an­oth­er man stole a sol­dier's car at gun­point on Mon­day af­ter­noon. 

"They come to kill me." Those were the chill­ing words of a Pe­nal man sec­onds be­fore he was fa­tal­ly shot by ban­dits at his home on Mon­day night.

Coun­cil­lor for Cou­va West/Roys­to­nia Vanes­sa Kussie, wid­ow of LM­CS div­er Rishi Na­gas­sar, broke down in tears as Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Po­lit­i­cal Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar pledged to com­pen­sate the fam­i­lies of four divers who trag­i­cal­ly lost their lives in a pipeline at Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny in 2022.

Sepp Blat­ter and Michel Pla­ti­ni won again in court Tues­day and now lead 2-0 in tri­al ver­dicts against Swiss fed­er­al pros­e­cu­tors.

Po­lice say one per­son was res­cued and the search is con­tin­u­ing for three oth­ers, af­ter a fire swept through a Chi­nese restau­rant on the West Coast De­mer­ara, in Guyana dur­ing the ear­ly hours of Tues­day.

Hous­ing Min­is­ter and Laven­tille East/Mor­vant MP Adri­an Leonce is now in hot wa­ter, af­ter ad­mit­ting to reg­is­ter­ing a UK-based com­pa­ny us­ing an­oth­er per­son’s ad­dress in that coun­try be­fore ter­mi­nat­ing the com­pa­ny.

The Ju­di­cial Com­mit­tee of the Privy Coun­cil has ruled in favour of for­mer High Court judge Mar­cia Ay­ers-Cae­sar, find­ing that her res­ig­na­tion from the post was not giv­en “freely” and that it was the prod­uct of “un­law­ful pres­sure.”

A Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) gov­ern­ment will es­tab­lish a Na­tion­al Com­mis­sion on the Bank­ing and Fi­nan­cial Sec­tor to en­sure cit­i­zens are not ex­ploit­ed via preda­to­ry fees and which will work to en­sure a fair dis­tri­b­u­tion of for­eign ex­change, says Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

There are calls for Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young to be­gin pro­ceed­ings to for­mal­ly in­ves­ti­gate Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie and the Ju­di­cial and Le­gal Ser­vices Com­mis­sion (JLSC) for the Mar­cia Ay­ers-Cae­sar de­ba­cle.