A Cab­i­net note which cir­cu­lat­ed on Sat­ur­day night sparked spec­u­la­tion that this year's In­de­pen­dence Day mil­i­tary pa­rade had been can­celled, but Gov­ern­ment sources say the event is still ex­pect­ed to go ahead.

Ma­jor­i­ty State-owned Caribbean Air­lines Ltd (CAL) has award­ed a con­tract worth $405,600 to SM Jaleel & Com­pa­ny for the pro­vi­sion of bot­tled wa­ter, ac­cord­ing to the sec­ond to last en­try on the air­line’s pro­cure­ment plat­form.

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana – Hard-hit­ting Guyanese bats­man Shim­ron Het­my­er has been added to the West In­dies’ squad for the first three One Day In­ter­na­tion­als (ODI) against New Zealand.

For decades, women have been taught that the month­ly breast self-ex­am­i­na­tion was one of their strongest weapons against breast can­cer.

Par­ent­ing prac­tices have changed rad­i­cal­ly in the last 50 years, from strict dis­ci­pli­nar­i­an, to to­day’s per­mis­sive­ness, bor­der­ing in some cas­es on in­dul­gence, with all sorts of vari­a­tions thrown in. There are par­ents who lock their un­der-fives in the bed­room at night and refuse to open the door un­til dawn so “they can have some time for them­selves.” There are par­ents who al­low their teenage child “space” when­ev­er she throws a tantrum and refuse to dis­cuss it.