Water Safety for Youth: The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports and the National Sports Commission say over 3,000 youths (ages 6–18) have registered for the Teach Them Young, Learn to Swim programme, running July 20 to August 14 in Georgetown, with qualified coaches and Lifesaving Association staff on hand. Health Infrastructure Dispute: Austria’s VAMED Engineering says it will start international arbitration at the ICC over unpaid certified costs of about €45.53M tied to Guyana’s Pediatric and Maternal Hospital and the New Amsterdam Hospital Campus; the Government rejects the claim as misleading and says delays and performance issues were documented. Housing Backlog Focus: President Irfaan Ali says more than three-quarters of pending housing applications are from Region Four, and the State plans a social-housing push targeting 3,000–5,000 homes with “strict criteria” to be published. Food and Worker Compliance Push: The AFC is calling for tighter monitoring of foreign-operated supermarkets and stores, alleging missing English labelling/expiry dates, lack of receipts, and poor labour conditions. Animal Welfare Row: Competing claims continue over the importation of pregnant heifers from Brazil, with GLDA and the Opposition trading different footage about transport and animal condition. Community Health Access: Dialysis services have been expanded at Lima Regional Hospital. Regional Aid for Venezuela: CARICOM partners, with Guyana coordinating shipments, sent 88 containers of earthquake relief supplies to Venezuela, including medicines and water tanks.