Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Kei­th Scot­land has called on vic­tims of ex­tor­tion to come for­ward. He said the An­ti-Ex­tor­tion Unit is ready and wait­ing, but it is up to the vic­tims to seek as­sis­tance.

Rel­a­tives of Jamie Mo­hammed must wait un­til foren­sic pro­ce­dures are con­clud­ed on the de­com­pos­ing head­less body found in Siparia last week, be­fore it is re­leased to them.

Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Ch­agua­nas West, Di­nesh Ram­bal­ly, has de­scribed as “a trav­es­ty of jus­tice” the col­lapse of the case against sev­en po­lice of­fi­cers who were charged with ex­tor­tion, mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice, per­vert­ing the course of jus­tice, and mis­ap­pro­pri­a­tion of funds.

The Venezue­lan man con­vict­ed of killing Geor­gia nurs­ing stu­dent Lak­en Ri­ley has been sen­tenced to life in prison with­out the pos­si­bil­i­ty of pa­role in a case that be­came a flash­point in the na­tion­al de­bate over im­mi­gra­tion.

In­di­an Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Mo­di ar­rived in Guyana on Wednes­day, mark­ing the first vis­it by an In­di­an leader in more than 50 years to the South Amer­i­can coun­try with di­as­po­ra ties.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly is will­ing to sup­port the To­ba­go Is­land Gov­ern­ment Bill, which seeks to re­place the THA Act and pro­vide greater au­ton­o­my to the is­land.

This coun­try's dif­fer­ent­ly abled com­mu­ni­ty is wel­com­ing the in­tro­duc­tion by the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port of penal­ties for the mis­use of dis­abil­i­ty park­ing.

Is­raeli of­fi­cials de­mand­ed Wednes­day the free­dom to strike Lebanon’s Hezbol­lah as part of any cease-fire deal, rais­ing a po­ten­tial com­pli­ca­tion as a top U.S. en­voy was in the re­gion at­tempt­ing to clinch an agree­ment.

A for­mer em­ploy­ee of the Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty is su­ing the or­ga­ni­za­tion, al­leg­ing as­sault and neg­li­gence af­ter a work­place in­ci­dent with a col­league, which took place in March 2023.

Fire fight­ers are cur­rent­ly at Mal­ick Sec­ondary School fight­ing a blaze in a pre-fab­ri­cat­ed build­ing on the com­pound.

An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Prime Min­is­ter Gas­ton Browne has un­der­scored the im­por­tance of the re­gion­al air­line, LI­AT 2020 to the Caribbean as the St. John’s based air­line made its in­au­gur­al flight in­to Guyana on Tues­day evening.

A ma­jor storm swept across the north­west U.S., bat­ter­ing the re­gion with strong winds and rain, caus­ing wide­spread pow­er out­ages and down­ing trees that killed at least one per­son.