Guyana's Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion, Priya Man­ickc­hand, says the new­ly launched Guyana Dig­i­tal School in­tro­duces an in­no­v­a­tive plat­form de­signed to en­sure stu­dents coun­try­wide ex­cel at their ex­am­i­na­tions.

For­mer Philip­pine Pres­i­dent Ro­dri­go Duterte was ar­rest­ed Tues­day on a war­rant from the In­ter­na­tion­al Crim­i­nal Court ac­cus­ing him of crimes against hu­man­i­ty over dead­ly an­ti-drugs crack­downs he over­saw while in of­fice, the Philip­pine gov­ern­ment said.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has chal­lenged Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley to re­veal the names of those al­leged­ly en­cour­ag­ing the Unit­ed States to re­voke visas and im­pose sanc­tions on Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has come out in de­fence of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s sov­er­eign­ty fol­low­ing the re­cent threat of US visa re­stric­tions an­nounced by Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion against gov­ern­ments util­is­ing Cu­ba’s over­seas med­ical mis­sions. The pro­gramme, which has been vi­tal to health­care sys­tems across the re­gion for decades, has been de­scribed in a re­port by the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion as con­sti­tut­ing “forced labour” and a form of “hu­man traf­fick­ing”.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has hit back at the Op­po­si­tion Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) and urged the pop­u­la­tion to turn their at­ten­tion on Op­po­si­tion mem­bers who are bent on the down­fall of the Drag­on gas deal with Venezuela.

Res­i­dents were yes­ter­day thank­ful that no one was killed af­ter a ten-wheel­er truck crashed in­to two hous­es in Guaracara af­ter the brakes re­port­ed­ly failed.

Sec­ondary school teacher Mar­isha Al­vara­do is the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) new prospec­tive 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion can­di­date for Tabaquite.

For To­bag­o­ni­ans, Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s tenure leaves be­hind a mixed lega­cy on the is­land. While some praise his con­tri­bu­tions, oth­ers be­lieve he could have done more for his birth­place.

A move by the Teach­ing Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (TSC) to in­tro­duce a new pro­ce­dure for the re­cruit­ment of teach­ers for de­nom­i­na­tion­al schools has re­ceived the nod of ap­proval from a High Court Judge. 

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has de­scribed the res­ig­na­tion of four more mem­bers of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ (UNC) La Brea con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive as child­ish and ir­rel­e­vant to the par­ty’s gen­er­al elec­tion cam­paign.

The Ch­aguara­mas Mil­i­tary His­to­ry and Aero­space Mu­se­um (CMHAM) will re­main at its site un­til at least May. 

A Ch­agua­nas de­liv­ery dri­ver who was hired to trans­port some items from a house in San­ta Cruz on Sun­day, was shot dur­ing an at­tempt­ed rob­bery as he ar­rived.