The Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) is promis­ing re­tirees that the union is near­ing fi­nal­i­sa­tion of their ten per cent agree­ment.

There has been no ob­jec­tion so far to a move to wind up the News­day news­pa­per af­ter 32 years of op­er­a­tion. 

Colour, flair and pas­sion were thrown in­to the mu­si­cal pot yes­ter­day, as hun­dreds of young steel­pan play­ers trans­formed Skin­ner Park, San Fer­nan­do, in­to a steel­pan the­atre, with St Mar­garet’s Boys’ An­gli­can Pri­ma­ry School cap­tur­ing yet an­oth­er Na­tion­al Schools Panora­ma ti­tle.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has moved to clar­i­fy its po­si­tion on stu­dent hair­styles af­ter an im­age, al­leged­ly from a sec­ondary school, cir­cu­lat­ed wide­ly on so­cial me­dia out­lin­ing strict groom­ing rules and show­ing ex­am­ples of hair­styles de­scribed as “not ac­cept­ed”.

Mount­ing con­cerns over garbage pil­ing up in car parks serv­ing 21 apart­ment build­ings in Mal­oney have trig­gered ur­gent calls for ac­tion from res­i­dents.

Class­es con­tin­ued as nor­mal on Mon­day at Rio Claro East Sec­ondary School amid as­sur­ances from the Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty that ad­di­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures are in place.

Re­gion­al Span­ish of­fi­cials said Mon­day that at least 40 peo­ple are con­firmed dead in a high-speed rail col­li­sion the pre­vi­ous night in the coun­try’s south when the tail end of a train jumped the track, caus­ing an­oth­er train speed­ing past in the op­po­site di­rec­tion to de­rail.

The Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) is promis­ing re­tirees that the union is near­ing fi­nal­i­sa­tion of their “10 per­cent” agree­ment.

The George­town Pub­lic Hos­pi­tal (GH­PC) in Guyana has con­firmed that an in­ves­ti­ga­tion has been launched in­to the death of a 22-year-old preg­nant woman, who is re­port­ed to have jumped to her death from a win­dow of the fe­male med­ical ward on the third floor of the build­ing.

The En­er­gy Cham­ber of Trinidad and To­ba­go says a re­vi­talised Venezuela oil in­dus­try could po­ten­tial­ly be one source for pro­vid­ing crude oil if the oil re­fin­ery in south Trinidad is re-start­ed.

The own­er of a Chi­nese restau­rant and bar in Ste Madeleine was found bound and blood­ied in­side his busi­ness on Sun­day night, in what po­lice be­lieve was a rob­bery-homi­cide.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge says he is not afraid for his life af­ter a man, who was de­tained un­der the State of Emer­gency (SoE) for a death threat to a Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cial, was re­leased ear­li­er this month.