Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion chair­man Josi­ah Austin has de­fend­ed the cor­po­ra­tion’s re­cent spend­ing on In­de­pen­dence Day cel­e­bra­tions, back-to-school dri­ves, and oth­er so­cial sup­port pro­grammes, stress­ing that most of the fund­ing came from pri­vate spon­sor­ship and in­ter­nal­ly raised rev­enue rather than cen­tral gov­ern­ment al­lo­ca­tions. In an in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia, Austin said about three-quar­ters of the costs were cov­ered by spon­sor­ship, with the bal­ance com­ing from the cor­po­ra­tion’s own rev­enue-gen­er­at­ing ac­tiv­i­ties.

More than two months af­ter he was charged with two sex­u­al of­fences in­volv­ing a child, the Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA), yes­ter­day con­firmed that Hanif Ben­jamin is no longer af­fil­i­at­ed with it.

En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Min­is­ter Roodal Mooni­lal close­ly fol­lowed yes­ter­day’s gen­er­al elec­tion in Guyana, par­tic­u­lar­ly in re­la­tion to re-ig­nit­ing en­er­gy col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween the two coun­tries.

As the cur­tains come down on Car­ifes­ta XV, Bar­ba­dos Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley wants its lega­cy to live on, and she’s will­ing to put her mon­ey where her mouth is.

Sources said Va­len­cia po­lice re­ceived a re­port of a body that was found on Cumaca Road, at around 11 am on Sun­day and vis­it­ed the scene.

Of­fi­cers of the North-Cen­tral Di­vi­sion cap­tured a ban­dit min­utes af­ter he re­port­ed­ly robbed the El Do­ra­do out­let of KFC on Mon­day morn­ing.

Thou­sands of mas­quer­aders and rev­ellers are ex­pect­ed to de­scend on New York’s Brook­lyn’s East­ern Park­way on Mon­day for the 58th An­nu­al New York Caribbean Car­ni­val Pa­rade.

As the cur­tains come down on Car­ifes­ta XV, Bar­ba­dos Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley wants its lega­cy to live on, and she’s will­ing to put her mon­ey where her mouth is.

The Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion has con­firmed it has part­ed ways with Hanif Ben­jamin, more than a month af­ter he was charged with two sex­u­al of­fences in­volv­ing a child.

A 32-year-old taxi dri­ver who was seen bran­dish­ing a gun while lim­ing in Mal­abar on Sun­day night, was found dead short­ly af­ter.

Des­per­ate Afghans clawed through rub­ble in search of miss­ing loved ones af­ter a strong earth­quake killed some 800 peo­ple and in­jured more than 2,500 in east­ern Afghanistan, ac­cord­ing to fig­ures pro­vid­ed Mon­day by the Tal­iban gov­ern­ment.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar was a no-show at the na­tion­al day of prayer she had pub­licly cham­pi­oned to re­place the coun­try’s In­de­pen­dence Day cel­e­bra­tions, a move that drew swift and point­ed crit­i­cism from Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les.