A 37-year-old man was shot and killed fol­low­ing an ar­gu­ment be­tween his friend and an­oth­er man over vis­i­ta­tion of their 11-month-old child.

Two men were de­nied bail when they ap­peared in court this week charged joint­ly with pos­ses­sion of cannabis for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing.

The Guyana gov­ern­ment has sig­nalled its pre­pared­ness to ex­tra­dite the leader of the re­cent­ly formed We In­vest in Na­tion­hood (WIN) par­ty, Azrud­din Mo­hamed, and his fa­ther, Nazar “Shell” Mo­hamed, who are want­ed in the Unit­ed States on sev­er­al fraud re­lat­ed charges.

A trop­i­cal storm watch has gone in­to ef­fect for sev­er­al Caribbean is­lands as Trop­i­cal Storm Jer­ry is fore­cast to be­come a hur­ri­cane on Thurs­day.

The Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) has called for due process to be ob­served fol­low­ing the ar­rest and charg­ing of Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee and busi­ness­man Hugh Leong Poi.

Min­is­ter of Hous­ing and MP for Ca­roni Cen­tral David Lee has been re-ar­rest­ed on con­spir­a­cy to de­fraud and mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice charges that were dropped six months ago.  

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has called on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to clar­i­fy whether Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee will con­tin­ue serv­ing as a gov­ern­ment min­is­ter and se­nior Cab­i­net mem­ber while fac­ing crim­i­nal charges.

It’s (fi­nal­ly) of­fi­cial—the UNC Gov­ern­ment’s first Na­tion­al Bud­get will be pre­sent­ed next Mon­day at 1.30 pm.

Near­ly a dozen home­own­ers in West­moor­ings are count­ing their loss­es af­ter a tor­na­do tore through the area yes­ter­day morn­ing, caus­ing mil­lions of dol­lars in dam­age and leav­ing streets cov­ered with de­bris.

Few ex­pect­ed it, but yes­ter­day’s burst of mois­ture in the fore­cast turned in­to some­thing far more dra­mat­ic—a tor­na­do.

Poor plan­ning and sub­stan­dard in­fra­struc­tur­al works are be­ing blamed for the flood­ing that oc­curs at the Mara­cas Beach carpark every time there are tor­ren­tial show­ers along the North Coast.

Less than 30 min­utes of heavy rain in Williamsville wreaked hav­oc on Kent Street res­i­dents yes­ter­day, as flood­wa­ters gushed in­to their homes.