The Guyana gov­ern­ment is un­der­tak­ing pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion on the new ‘Pro­tec­tion from Ha­rass­ment Bill 2024,’ as it seeks to erad­i­cate gen­der-based vi­o­lence (GBV) in the coun­try.

Don­ald Trump host­ed a ral­ly fea­tur­ing crude and racist in­sults at New York’s Madi­son Square Gar­den, turn­ing what his cam­paign had dubbed as the event where he would de­liv­er his clos­ing mes­sage in­to an il­lus­tra­tion of what turns off his crit­ics.

In a post on X re­spond­ing to a news­pa­per ar­ti­cle, Im­bert said, "Dur­ing COVID, we cre­at­ed a spe­cial win­dow at the Ex­im­bank to pro­vide USD for es­sen­tial im­ports, such as food and med­i­cine. Covid is over, so we are re­view­ing the fea­si­bil­i­ty of that forex win­dow."

Act­ing Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young and Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment gen­er­al sec­re­tary Fos­ter Cum­mings have shot back at de­trac­tors who have spec­u­lat­ed that there is di­vi­sion with­in the par­ty by re­in­forc­ing that it is strong and unit­ed.

While the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) may ap­pear to be a unit­ed front in pub­lic, this may not nec­es­sar­i­ly be the case be­hind closed doors.

Min­is­ter of Tourism, Cul­ture and the Arts Ran­dall Mitchell says he is im­pressed by the way the To­ba­go Oc­to­ber Car­ni­val has de­vel­oped over the years and the high re­turns it has brought for hote­liers on the is­land.

Ten armed men tied up a Chase Vil­lage, Ch­agua­nas woman and her chil­dren on Sat­ur­day night and robbed them of $80,000 in cash and oth­er items.

Gov­ern­ment Sen­a­tor Richie Sookhai is call­ing on the po­lice to be more ac­tive when it comes to fight­ing crime in Ch­agua­nas, es­pe­cial­ly as it re­lates to ex­tor­tion.

The Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) has agreed not to take in­dus­tri­al ac­tion against the T&T Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC), fol­low­ing an al­leged sick out in To­ba­go last week.

As she steps in­to her moth­er’s shoes, new­ly or­dained Caci­ca of the Warao First Peo­ple, Ani­cia Or­tan­cia Mal­oney, has made an emo­tion­al ap­peal to oth­er in­dige­nous tribes across T&T, call­ing for co­op­er­a­tion as the na­tive com­mu­ni­ties es­tab­lish them­selves through­out the na­tion.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, around mid­day, Roger Bai­ley, from La Hor­quet­ta, Ari­ma, was ply­ing his pri­vate car for hire in his com­mu­ni­ty.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher has agreed to re­turn three li­censed firearms to a for­mer sol­dier, who served on the se­cu­ri­ty de­tail for for­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith.