Guyana will host the next IN­TER­POL Con­fer­ence in 2026, a move wel­comed by re­gion­al lead­ers as they strength­en ties with the world’s largest in­ter­na­tion­al po­lice or­gan­i­sa­tion to tack­le grow­ing or­gan­ised crime across the Caribbean.

Peren­co has be­come a ma­jor oil and gas pro­duc­er in T&T fol­low­ing ac­qui­si­tion of as­sets from Wood­side en­er­gy.

Robin Lewis was elect­ed pres­i­dent of the T&T Golf As­so­ci­a­tion (TTGA) at the TTGA’s an­nu­al gen­er­al meet­ing in May. Lewis, who re­places Wayne Bap­tiste at the helm of the or­gan­i­sa­tion, says among the ob­jec­tives of the new TTGA Board is get­ting more women play­ing golf and more fund­ing for the sport, which are among the plans of the new board.

To­day, the Caribbean and the wider mu­si­cal world cel­e­brate a his­toric mile­stone, as The Mighty Spar­row (Slinger Fran­cis­co) marks his 90th birth­day.

Quite pre­dictably, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­cent­ly an­nounced a plan to raise the le­gal age for al­co­hol con­sump­tion from 18 to 21 and to set a high­er age thresh­old for the use of mar­i­jua­na has sparked a cho­rus of dif­fer­ing opin­ions.