The Guyana gov­ern­ment says it is mov­ing to amend the Lo­cal Con­tent Act next year to en­sure that all loop­holes are reg­u­lat­ed ef­fec­tive­ly warn­ing that com­pa­nies who are non-com­pli­ant with the leg­is­la­tion will have a lot to wor­ry about in the fu­ture.

A pres­i­den­tial cam­paign that has ca­reened through a felony tri­al, an in­cum­bent pres­i­dent be­ing pushed off the tick­et and mul­ti­ple as­sas­si­na­tion at­tempts comes down to a fi­nal push across a hand­ful of states on the eve of Elec­tion Day.

Quin­cy Jones, the mul­ti-tal­ent­ed mu­sic ti­tan whose vast lega­cy ranged from pro­duc­ing Michael Jack­son’s his­toric “Thriller” al­bum to writ­ing prize-win­ning film and tele­vi­sion scores and col­lab­o­rat­ing with Frank Sina­tra, Ray Charles and hun­dreds of oth­er record­ing artists, has died at 91.

Min­is­ter of Fi­nance Colm Im­bert an­nounced yes­ter­day that the forex win­dow at the Ex­im­Bank for es­sen­tial im­ports, cre­at­ed dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, has been re­sumed in a re­struc­tured for­mat.

With rur­al schools fac­ing on­go­ing fur­ni­ture short­ages, San Fer­nan­do busi­ness­man Andy Bal­go­b­in has pledged $120,000 in do­na­tions to sup­ply desks and chairs to some of the coun­try’s most un­der­served rur­al schools.

The As­so­ci­a­tion of Lo­cal Culi­nary Am­bas­sadors (AL­CA) and the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture have agreed to a tem­po­rary re­lo­ca­tion of ven­dors at the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain.

The rob­bery sus­pect killed by po­lice dur­ing an ex­change of gun­fire on Sat­ur­day has been iden­ti­fied as Zion Coop­er, of Bal­isi­er Av­enue, Pleas­antville.

The Op­po­si­tion Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) has ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of hav­ing a vest­ed in­ter­est in pro­mot­ing and fa­cil­i­tat­ing black mar­ket forex trans­ac­tions in the coun­try.

Greater San Fer­nan­do Area Cham­ber of Com­merce (GS­FCC) pres­i­dent Ki­ran Singh says claims by crim­i­nol­o­gist Dau­rius Figueira that some busi­ness own­ers are in ca­hoots with drug deal­ers and claim­ing they are be­ing ex­tort­ed is crazy.

One of T&T’s most promi­nent busi­ness­men, Arthur Lok Jack, has stepped down as the chair­man of As­so­ci­at­ed Brands In­dus­tries Ltd (ABIL).

Pres­tige Hold­ings Ltd CEO Si­mon Hardy has giv­en the as­sur­ance that TGI Fri­days’ op­er­a­tions in Trinidad and To­ba­go and the wider Caribbean re­gion will not be af­fect­ed by the re­cent bank­rupt­cy fil­ing of the main par­ent com­pa­ny in the Unit­ed States,

Snaking away from In­niss Street in Saly­bia is a dirt track lit­tered with grav­el and sharp stones. Fol­low­ing an up­ward gra­di­ent, the track crescen­dos af­ter a minute’s walk be­fore it goes in­to a grad­ual de­cline, abrupt­ly end­ing at a makeshift bridge made up of four shab­by planks of wood. At the end of this ar­du­ous trace, at the top of a hill lives 66-year-old Har­ry Sookhoo, a man with no legs, all alone against this un­for­giv­ing ter­rain.