Guyana con­tin­ues to be one of the fastest-grow­ing economies in the world, and a new re­port shows the coun­try is im­prov­ing at man­ag­ing what it owes.

Ja­maica’s Min­istry of Cli­mate Change has reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to pro­tect­ing cit­i­zens through the en­hance­ment of mul­ti-haz­ard ear­ly warn­ing sys­tems.

As res­cue ef­forts in com­mu­ni­ties buried by cat­a­stroph­ic flash floods along the bor­der be­tween Nepal and Chi­na en­tered their fourth day Sat­ur­day, au­thor­i­ties con­tin­ued find­ing sur­vivors and trans­port­ing them to safe­ty. At re­lief cen­tres, as some ar­rive, fam­i­lies wait anx­ious­ly for news of their loved ones as the death toll and the num­ber of peo­ple un­ac­count­ed for con­tin­ued to rise.

Hours af­ter se­nior na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cials, in­clud­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro, as­sured the na­tion that threat as­sess­ments ahead of Mon­day's In­de­pen­dence Day cel­e­bra­tions re­mained low, a new se­cu­ri­ty threat has emerged.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has re­voked the Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) is­sued against dance­hall artiste Joseph “Medz Boss” Oliviere.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice (TTPrS) has in­ter­cept­ed a pack­age con­tain­ing mar­i­jua­na and oth­er pro­hib­it­ed items that was thrown over the perime­ter wall of the Port-of-Spain Prison.

A sol­dier who was placed un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) af­ter be­ing charged with re­ceiv­ing and har­bour­ing a Venezue­lan woman for ex­ploita­tion has been grant­ed $350,000 bail.

Cel­e­brat­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s In­de­pen­dence can take many forms, from wav­ing the na­tion­al flag to dress­ing in the coun­try’s colours of red, white and black.

Three new joint po­lice-mil­i­tary se­cu­ri­ty posts are be­ing wel­comed by To­bag­o­ni­ans, with Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine al­ready ad­vo­cat­ing for a fourth fa­cil­i­ty on the is­land.

Hours af­ter Sea Lots res­i­dent Ed­win “Teo” Richard­son was killed by a man he had grown up with in the neigh­bour­hood yes­ter­day, his rel­a­tives were urg­ing calm and ap­peal­ing to res­i­dents to avoid re­tal­ia­to­ry vi­o­lence.

As po­lice-in­volved killings con­tin­ue to rise, re­newed con­cerns have emerged over the ab­sence of body cam­era footage in in­ves­ti­ga­tions, de­spite reg­u­la­tions re­quir­ing of­fi­cers to wear the de­vices.

For­mer prime min­is­ter and Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) po­lit­i­cal leader Dr Kei­th Row­ley has bro­ken his si­lence on the tur­moil with­in the par­ty’s San Fer­nan­do East con­stituen­cy, call­ing for “com­mon sense” and a speedy res­o­lu­tion to the dis­pute.