Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates has of­fered her res­ig­na­tion to the Sen­ate, apol­o­gis­ing for the con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing her role on a key par­lia­men­tary over­sight com­mit­tee.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has hailed an Es­tab­lish­ment Agree­ment signed with the World Bank for the es­tab­lish­ment and op­er­a­tion of of­fices here.

Prime Min­is­ter Gas­ton Browne’s gam­ble of call­ing a gen­er­al elec­tion near­ly two years ahead of the con­sti­tu­tion­al dead­line paid off on Thurs­day, when he guid­ed his rul­ing An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Labour Par­ty (ABLP) to a com­mand­ing vic­to­ry.

The Min­istry of Health has ex­tend­ed con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly of Ma­sud Pros­per, a dri­ver em­ployed at the Min­istry, who was killed yes­ter­day af­ter­noon af­ter be­ing shot at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah (QPS).

Al­though her fam­i­ly will for­ev­er be scarred by the bru­tal mur­ders of her sis­ter Tara Ram­sa­roop and her 14-month-old niece Sher­maya Ja­da Moti­lal, Jas­so­dra Ra­jaram yes­ter­day wept tears of re­lief that their mur­der­er had been sen­tenced to death.

The im­po­si­tion of the death penal­ty on 33-year-old Rishi Moti­lal for the killing of his es­tranged girl­friend and their child has reignit­ed dis­cus­sion on the le­gal process and views on cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment.

A Bel­mont fa­ther of three was yes­ter­day killed min­utes af­ter he ar­rived at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah (QPS), Port-of-Spain, to col­lect his son from foot­ball train­ing in what his com­mon law wife be­lieves was a reprisal.

The Gov­ern­ment has strong­ly chal­lenged Op­po­si­tion leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les’ self-as­sess­ment of her first term lead­ing the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM).

Two po­lit­i­cal an­a­lysts have of­fered dif­fer­ent pre­scrip­tions for Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les as pres­sure mounts over the fu­ture of em­bat­tled Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) stal­wart Don Sylvester, 72, was re­mem­bered yes­ter­day as he was laid to rest, fit­ting­ly on the 37th an­niver­sary of the UNC, as the kind of man who could make you laugh even when you want­ed to cry, and who nev­er wa­vered in his loy­al­ty to his par­ty or his friends.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar held bi­lat­er­al talks with Saint Lu­cia’s Prime Min­is­ter Philip J Pierre yes­ter­day, in a meet­ing which comes amid on­go­ing scruti­ny over Trinidad and To­ba­go’s re­la­tion­ship with Cari­com un­der her ad­min­is­tra­tion.

Al­though in­dus­tri­al ac­tion by nurs­es has be­gun to af­fect ser­vices at sev­er­al pub­lic health in­sti­tu­tions, rel­a­tives of pa­tients at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal say care there has re­mained large­ly sta­ble.