For­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young says the Gov­ern­ment has moved to have his diplo­mat­ic pass­port re­turned, mark­ing what he de­scribes as the lat­est at­tempt to strip him of ben­e­fits af­ford­ed to for­mer prime min­is­ters.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro is clean­ing house, start­ing with the fir­ing of 17 po­lice of­fi­cers.

Op­po­si­tion MP Stu­art Young is ques­tion­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to re­tain at­tor­ney Ger­ald Ramdeen as part of the State’s le­gal team in the high-pro­file mat­ter in­volv­ing busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve, ar­gu­ing that the ap­point­ment rais­es con­cerns giv­en that Ramdeen re­mains a de­fen­dant in a civ­il law­suit brought by the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) says it has no fear of any in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the fi­nanc­ing of the re­con­struc­tion of its Bal­isi­er House head­quar­ters, as it dis­missed on­line spec­u­la­tion as po­lit­i­cal in­tim­i­da­tion by the Gov­ern­ment.

For­mer Fi­nance min­is­ter Win­ston Dook­er­an has ques­tioned the phe­nom­e­non of the "One Per cent" term - and whether the so­lu­tion would be "found in the ac­cep­tance of po­lit­i­cal vendet­ta be­com­ing a part of the na­tion­al agen­da, or the im­par­tial use of the state ap­pa­ra­tus be used to ad­ju­di­cate on the con­flict­ing con­tentions in the pub­lic space."

Ten years af­ter the death of for­mer prime min­is­ter and Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) leader Patrick Man­ning, Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Dr Amery Browne says he is con­vinced Man­ning would have been proud of the par­ty in its cur­rent form and would have been work­ing along­side its mem­bers to re­turn it to gov­ern­ment.

With on­ly their love, de­ter­mi­na­tion and a cool­er cov­er to keep them afloat, a fa­ther and son sur­vived a gru­elling, al­most eight-hour swim to shore af­ter an armed at­tack at sea left them fight­ing for their lives in the dark depths of the ocean.

The Gov­ern­ment has pledged ur­gent in­ter­ven­tion at the de­te­ri­o­rat­ing Cana­da Hous­ing de­vel­op­ment in Mar­cano Quar­ry Lands, Laven­tille, days af­ter res­i­dents pub­licly de­scribed liv­ing in de­cay­ing build­ings they said have been ne­glect­ed for years.

Mt St George Sev­enth-day Ad­ven­tist (SDA) pas­tor Dar­i­an Rouse has called for a re-eval­u­a­tion of the church’s mes­sag­ing to en­sure all mem­bers feel val­ued.

Op­po­si­tion MP for Laven­tille East/Mor­vant Chris­t­ian Birch­wood is ac­cus­ing the Gov­ern­ment of fun­da­men­tal­ly mis­un­der­stand­ing the pur­pose of the Mil­i­tary-Led Aca­d­e­m­ic Train­ing (Mi­LAT) pro­gramme, ar­gu­ing that it was nev­er in­tend­ed to be judged on fi­nan­cial vi­a­bil­i­ty.

If Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar in­tends to re­vive the is­sue of the reap­point­ment of Cari­com Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett at the up­com­ing Cari­com con­fer­ence, for­mer For­eign Af­fairs min­is­ter Dr Amery Browne says the re­gion­al group­ing should re­sist any such move and in­stead fo­cus on pro­vid­ing as­sis­tance to Venezuela.

Not every child per­forms at their best on the same day, and for ed­u­ca­tion stake­hold­ers, that re­al­i­ty is at the cen­tre of re­newed dis­cus­sion about whether the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) should con­tin­ue to re­ly on a sin­gle high-stakes ex­am­i­na­tion.