Guyana po­lice Mon­day said they are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the dis­cov­ery of 72.1 pounds of co­caine, which was found last Fri­day, dur­ing an op­er­a­tion along the Five Miles-Itu­ni Trail, Up­per De­mer­ara Riv­er.

With the Gov­ern­ment ex­pect­ed to de­liv­er its 2027 fis­cal pack­age in the com­ing weeks, rec­om­men­da­tions from the Amer­i­can Cham­ber of Com­merce of T&T (Am­cham T&T) is propos­ing the es­tab­lish­ment of a Na­tion­al In­fra­struc­ture In­vest­ment Fund ca­pa­ble of mo­bil­is­ing be­tween US$500 mil­lion and US$1 bil­lion in pri­vate sec­tor cap­i­tal for crit­i­cal projects.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – De­spite suf­fer­ing a five-wick­et de­feat at the hands of the Guyana Ama­zon War­riors Women, de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents Women still man­aged to qual­i­fy for the play­offs of the Women’s Caribbean Pre­mier League.

Wa­ter­sports are for every­one. It’s a mes­sage na­tion­al free­d­iv­ing record-hold­er and speech-lan­guage pathol­o­gist Shiv­ani Gob­erd­han helped spread across Hawaii, which she has brought back to her home coun­try. Now based in To­ba­go, she’s cham­pi­oning and as­sist­ing with the in­volve­ment of peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ties in some of her favourite dis­ci­plines.

The most strik­ing find­ing from the Sun­day Guardian’s re­port on Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders un­der suc­ces­sive States of Emer­gency (SoEs) is the rel­a­tive­ly low num­ber of de­tainees ul­ti­mate­ly charged with crim­i­nal of­fences.