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.

The Gov­ern­ment is now look­ing to in­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors to sup­port the pro­posed Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSOs) bill af­ter it was re­ject­ed by all Op­po­si­tion Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment (MPs) present for the vote in the Low­er House on Fri­day.

The Gov­ern­ment has reached an agree­ment with the Swiss com­pa­ny, Pro­man, to set­tle the Cli­co En­er­gy case, on terms favourable to the coun­try, a se­nior Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cial told Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge is deny­ing re­ports that this coun­try was com­plic­it in the ex­trac­tion of oust­ed Venezue­lan pres­i­dent Nico­las Maduro by al­low­ing a Unit­ed States air­craft to use the coun­try’s air­port in the ex­trac­tion.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) PRO, Dr Kirk Meighoo, yes­ter­day said the pur­pose of hav­ing me­dia con­fer­ences on na­tion­al mat­ters at the par­ty’s head­quar­ters was be­cause that is the venue where na­tion­al poli­cies are cre­at­ed.

At­ten­dance at the Rio Claro East Sec­ondary con­tin­ues to dwin­dle, as staff and stu­dents fear for their safe­ty af­ter a se­ries of death threats were di­rect­ed to­wards teach­ers at the school.

Two men who went miss­ing on Sat­ur­day, af­ter ven­tur­ing in­to the man­grove swamp off Clax­ton Bay to gath­er oys­ters, were lat­er found drift­ing off­shore near La Brea yes­ter­day.

A body found in San Raphael is be­lieved to be that of Sir Ja­mal Ram­per­sad, who was re­port­ed miss­ing last Wednes­day.

St Fran­cois Val­ley Stars took top ho­n­ours with 277 points, while BATCE and Sap­phon­ic Steel tied for sec­ond on 274 points.