British Prime Min­is­ter Keir Starmer con­firmed Sun­day that the U.K. is for­mal­ly rec­og­niz­ing a Pales­tin­ian state de­spite vo­cif­er­ous op­po­si­tion from the U.S. and Is­rael.

Chair­man of the board of di­rec­tors of the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA), Dr Tim Gopeesingh, says an au­dit has been or­dered in­to the ex­pen­di­ture at the au­thor­i­ty, par­tic­u­lar­ly the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC).

Vo­ces Jovenes Parang Group host­ed its fi­nal Start De Parang event at the Li­ons Cul­tur­al Cen­tre, Fitzblack­man Dri­ve, Port-of-Spain, on Sep­tem­ber 13. Launched 13 years ago to pre­serve the parang tra­di­tion, the event has proud­ly achieved its goal. It re­mains a show that au­di­ences, fans, parang lovers, and paran­deros alike ea­ger­ly an­tic­i­pate each year.

In­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions ex­pert Prof Andy Knight is warn­ing that Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar may be on the wrong side of his­to­ry amid push­back from the US Con­gress against mil­i­tary strikes on boats leav­ing Venezuela in the South­ern Caribbean Sea.

US strikes on sus­pect­ed drug ves­sels in Caribbean wa­ters, part of its war on nar­co-traf­fick­ing, are spark­ing anx­i­ety in Ma­yaro among lo­cal fish­er­men.

The sun beats down over Ce­dros on Fri­day af­ter­noon, cast­ing a sharp, sil­very glare across the shore­line. Gulls wheel over­head, squawk­ing as wood­en boats drift gen­tly on the calm, sun-dap­pled wa­ters.

Agri­co­la Cred­it Union re­cent­ly placed the spot­light on ed­u­ca­tion, ho­n­our­ing stu­dents who ex­celled in this year’s Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am­i­na­tion through its bur­sary pro­gramme.

Last Sun­day, Guardian Me­dia’s In­ves­ti­ga­tions Desk re­vealed that five com­pa­nies linked to for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) min­is­ter and cur­rent Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Fos­ter Cum­mings re­ceived more than $100 mil­lion in state con­tracts from the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) and the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (Ude­cott) be­tween 2015 and 2025.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says the de­ci­sion to send a se­nior of­fi­cer on va­ca­tion leave last week was in ac­cor­dance with his law­ful en­ti­tle­ments and in align­ment with strate­gic plan­ning.

Venezue­lan Vice Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez has at­tacked Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Alexan­der, call­ing him a pawn of the Unit­ed States af­ter con­tro­ver­sial state­ments he made about Venezuela.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has sought ad­vice from At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie, SC, over al­le­ga­tions made against him by de­tained prison su­per­vi­sor Garth Gua­da.

Ster­ling Hen­der­son, whose rich voice be­came syn­ony­mous with net­work news on I95.5FM and cul­tur­al events, passed away yes­ter­day at his home. It sent the me­dia fra­ter­ni­ty in this coun­try in­to mourn­ing, but more so, shock.