The Uni­ver­si­ty of Guyana’s School of En­tre­pre­neur­ship & Busi­ness In­no­va­tion (SE­BI) has en­tered a part­ner­ship with the Guyana Rev­enue Au­thor­i­ty (GRA) and the World Bank to in­tro­duce two piv­otal ed­u­ca­tion­al pro­grammes: an As­so­ciate De­gree in Oil & Gas Ac­count­ing/Tax­a­tion/Au­dit and a Grad­u­ate Ex­ec­u­tive Diplo­ma in Oil & Gas Ac­count­ing/Tax­a­tion/Au­dit.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) will soon ad­dress land­slide is­sues af­fect­ing the River­side South Corinth De­vel­op­ment.

Star­bucks is lay­ing off around 900 non-re­tail em­ploy­ees and clos­ing some U.S. and Cana­di­an stores as it fo­cus­es more of its re­sources on a turn­around.

Pro­fes­sor Sel­wyn Cud­joe yes­ter­day thumbed his nose at his de­trac­tors af­ter ac­cept­ing the Or­der of the Re­pub­lic of T&T (ORTT), even as he thanked Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad Bisses­sar for in­sist­ing the high­est na­tion­al award be con­ferred on him.

Elec­tri­cian Ak­il Des Vi­gnes says his fam­i­ly re­mains ec­sta­t­ic about his Hum­ming­bird Medal (Bronze) for gal­lantry, fol­low­ing his hero­ic act of sav­ing a four-year-old child from se­ri­ous harm at the Carousel Park, Movi­eTowne, Port-of-Spain, in Ju­ly.

Res­i­dents of Sea Lots cel­e­brat­ed long in­to the night yes­ter­day, af­ter two of their own were pre­sent­ed with na­tion­al awards for gal­lantry for res­cu­ing a po­lice of­fi­cer from a burn­ing car last Sep­tem­ber.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says the Or­der of the Re­pub­lic of T&T (ORTT) giv­en to Ho­choy Charles is long over­due, but the re­al ho­n­our he want­ed was au­ton­o­my for To­ba­go and this is yet to be ful­filled.

Po­lice Con­sta­ble Rus­sell Be­dasse says he will have to live with the pain of know­ing his moth­er, 57-year-old Shelawai­htie “Meera” Be­dasse, might have been saved if po­lice had act­ed when she first went miss­ing.

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der have re­ject­ed claims that he held im­prop­er meet­ings with gang lead­ers while he served as a po­lice of­fi­cer be­fore leav­ing the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) to pur­sue a ca­reer in pol­i­tics.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is ex­pect­ed to ar­rive in the Unit­ed States this evening on her first in­ter­na­tion­al trip since tak­ing of­fice, ahead of her par­tic­i­pa­tion in the 80th Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly (UN­GA) and re­lat­ed events.

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers be­lieves this coun­try does not have to wor­ry about be­ing in­tim­i­dat­ed by the Unit­ed States af­ter Trinidad and To­ba­go reaf­firmed its recog­ni­tion of Pales­tine and its sup­port of the “two-state so­lu­tion”.

A 49-year-old teacher has been charged with pos­ses­sion of nar­cotics for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing, fol­low­ing an in­ci­dent at St Julien Pres­by­ter­ian School, Princes Town.