Fifty-five (55) en­tre­pre­neurs be­gan ac­cel­er­at­ed busi­ness train­ing when the Na­tion­al En­tre­pre­neur­ship De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (NED­CO) launched the third co­hort of its Pro­gramme on Mon­day.

One hun­dred and six­ty-eight (168) young peo­ple were award­ed cer­tifi­cates for the suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of Lev­el 1 of the Youth Agri­cul­tur­al Home­stead Pro­gramme as the Min­istry of Youth De­vel­op­ment and Na­tion­al Ser­vice (MYDNS) host­ed its Grad­u­a­tion Cer­e­mo­ny for the first co­hort of the Youth Agri­cul­tur­al Home­stead Pro­gramme on Tues­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go women’s hock­ey team nar­row­ly lost to the USA 2-1 in the Pan Am Hock­ey 5’s tour­na­ment se­mi-fi­nal in Ja­maica on Thurs­day night.

De­spite as­sur­ances from Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan that re­con­struc­tion of the per­ma­nent Man­zanil­la/Ma­yaro Road would com­mence in six weeks, an­gry taxi dri­vers downed tools on Fri­day, stag­ing protests in Ma­yaro and leav­ing com­muters strand­ed.

Ann Allen loved go­ing to church and the af­ter-school so­cial group led by a dy­nam­ic priest back in the 1960s.

Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Ma­yaro, Rush­ton Paray, is call­ing on Min­is­ter of Works and Trans­port, Ro­han Sinanan to im­me­di­ate­ly ad­dress the ex­treme­ly poor con­di­tion of the Man­zanil­la by-pass road.

The beau­ty of Palmiste Park has been taint­ed by ef­flu­ent from near­by food huts which emits a foul odour and pos­es a grave health haz­ard to park users.

The $14 mil­lion tem­po­rary Man­zanil­la By­pass Road, the lone route con­nect­ing com­mu­ni­ties along the scenic east coast, is de­te­ri­o­rat­ing rapid­ly, leav­ing com­muters wor­ried.

A Guyanese na­tion­al has been elect­ed to serve on the Ex­ec­u­tive Coun­cil of the World Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Or­ga­ni­za­tion (WMO) since its for­ma­tion 150 years ago, ac­cord­ing to a gov­ern­ment state­ment is­sued here.

France’s pres­i­dent trav­elled Fri­day to the side of fam­i­lies trau­ma­tized by the sav­age stab­bings of four very young chil­dren, all said to be in sta­ble con­di­tion af­ter emer­gency surgery, while in­ves­ti­ga­tors worked to un­rav­el the mo­tives of a Syr­i­an man tak­en in­to cus­tody.

A study on the quan­tifi­ca­tion of repa­ra­tions for Transat­lantic Chat­tel Slav­ery (TCS) in the Amer­i­c­as and the Caribbean has found that tril­lions of dol­lars are owed to these coun­tries as a re­sult of the slave trade.

— Trump faces a string of in­quiries in var­i­ous states and venues as he cam­paigns for a re­turn to the White House