Bar­ba­dos Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley con­clud­ed a high-lev­el work­ing meet­ing in Cara­cas on Mon­day with Venezuela's Act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez, with both lead­ers agree­ing to deep­en the long­stand­ing ties of friend­ship, co­op­er­a­tion and sol­i­dar­i­ty be­tween their coun­tries.

Em­bat­tled San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning came un­der heavy crit­i­cism from the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) lead­er­ship yes­ter­day, who turned on him amid a pub­lic dis­pute with his con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive with warn­ings that dis­ci­pli­nary ac­tion could be on the hori­zon.

The re­main­ing mem­bers of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) San Fer­nan­do East (SFE) con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive, in­clud­ing chair­man Pa­tri­cia Alex­is, re­signed yes­ter­day amid the im­passe be­tween MP Bri­an Man­ning and Alex­is.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) “shad­ow MP” for San Fer­nan­do East John Michael Al­i­bo­cus says he is ready to serve as the con­stituen­cy’, as tur­moil deep­ens with­in the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) strong­hold.

No ev­i­dence was pre­sent­ed to sup­port al­le­ga­tions of cor­rup­tion made by San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning, San Fer­nan­do East ex­ec­u­tive chair­man Pa­tri­cia Alex­is, or their wit­ness­es, ac­cord­ing to Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment deputy leader San­jiv Bood­hu, who led the par­ty’s in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the mat­ter.

Miss World Trinidad and To­ba­go Geor­gia-Lee Gill has se­cured a place in the Top 40 of Miss World 2026 af­ter win­ning the Amer­i­c­as and Caribbean re­gion­al leg of the Head-to-Head Chal­lenge.

The Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of the Na­tion­al Com­mis­sion for Self Help Lim­it­ed (NC­SHL), Lester Leu, has been placed on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave with pay as the state-owned agency in­ves­ti­gates a se­ries of mis­con­duct al­le­ga­tions, in­clud­ing breach­es of pro­cure­ment pro­ce­dures, fail­ure to com­ply with board di­rec­tives and ac­tions al­leged­ly aimed at un­der­min­ing the board’s au­thor­i­ty.

Econ­o­mist Dr In­dera Sage­wan says changes to state boards fol­low­ing a change in gov­ern­ment are nor­mal, but new ap­pointees must pos­sess the skills and ex­pe­ri­ence nec­es­sary to lead in­sti­tu­tions ef­fec­tive­ly.

Fire­works Use Suf­fer­ers (FUS) pres­i­dent Nali­ni Di­al is urg­ing the Em­per­or Val­ley Zoo man­age­ment to pub­licly raise con­cerns about the use of fire­works dur­ing the In­de­pen­dence Day Pa­rade, as well as the re­lo­ca­tion of the an­nu­al event clos­er to the zoo’s com­pound.

The Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union’s (OW­TU) Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) branch has called for the re­moval of UTT ex­ec­u­tive chair­man Pro­fes­sor Sel­wyn Cud­joe, ac­cus­ing him of be­ing in­sen­si­tive to work­ers af­ter he de­clared that the coun­try does not have the mon­ey to meet out­stand­ing wage set­tle­ments.

The Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NATUC) is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to re­con­sid­er her re­fusal to en­gage the Steel Work­ers’ Union of Trinidad and To­ba­go (SWUTT) over the re­open­ing of the for­mer Arcelor­Mit­tal steel plant at Point Lisas.

CAS­TRIES, St Lu­cia—The 15-mem­ber Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) has em­ployed a re­gion­al law firm to present its re­sponse to the chal­lenge by Trinidad and To­ba­go Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­gard­ing the reap­point­ment of Cari­com Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett.