West In­dies fast bowler Alzarri Joseph has been fined 25 per cent of his match fee for breach­ing the ICC Code of Con­duct in the first One Day In­ter­na­tion­al against Bangladesh on Sun­day.

Pres­i­dent Ir­faan Ali on Tues­day an­nounced a 10 per cent retroac­tive salary in­crease for all pub­lic ser­vants and that peo­ple with aca­d­e­m­ic qual­i­fi­ca­tions will al­so ben­e­fit fi­nan­cial­ly as of Jan­u­ary next year.

As Hu­man Rights Day dawns on 10 De­cem­ber, it serves as a re­minder of the on­go­ing im­por­tance of equal­i­ty, jus­tice, and dig­ni­ty for all peo­ple world­wide.

One man is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court this week charged with sev­er­al firearm-re­lat­ed of­fences, aris­ing out of a re­port of Shoot­ing with In­tent, which oc­curred in the Care­nage dis­trict in Oc­to­ber 2024.

UN Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al An­tónio Guter­res has of­ten de­scribed hu­man rights as “the foun­da­tion for peace­ful, just, and in­clu­sive so­ci­eties”.  How­ev­er, in his mes­sage for World Hu­man Rights Day 2024, he is lament­ing the fact that, “Hu­man rights are un­der as­sault.”

Bar­ba­dos has signed a Let­ter of Un­der­stand­ing (LoU) with the Unit­ed Na­tions World Food Pro­gramme (WFP), aimed at im­prov­ing the re­gion’s food se­cu­ri­ty and nu­tri­tion by 2030.

Is­rael car­ried out a wave of heavy airstrikes across Syr­ia as its troops ad­vanced deep­er in­to the coun­try, draw­ing to with­in 25 kilo­me­ters (15 miles) of the cap­i­tal, a Syr­i­an op­po­si­tion war mon­i­tor said Tues­day. Is­rael de­nied its forces were ad­vanc­ing to­ward Dam­as­cus.

An­gry over the failed out­come of the To­ba­go au­ton­o­my bills, Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine yes­ter­day de­scribed Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley as a “house slave,” as he ac­cused him of ig­nor­ing the needs of To­ba­go’s peo­ple.

When Kubair Ram­per­sad up­root­ed his fam­i­ly and moved to San Fer­nan­do to es­cape the blar­ing mu­sic from a near­by rum shop, he nev­er imag­ined their sac­ri­fices would one day pave the way for his daugh­ter, Kesh­ma Ram­per­sad, to earn an Open Schol­ar­ship in In­for­ma­tion and Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Tech­nol­o­gy (ICT).

The re­jec­tion of the To­ba­go au­ton­o­my bills in Par­lia­ment has left the is­land’s politi­cians and stake­hold­ers point­ing fin­gers, with some say­ing the bills’ re­turn to the House was noth­ing but a show.

The pos­si­bil­i­ty of Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley not con­test­ing his Diego Mar­tin West seat again sent shock­waves through the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) yes­ter­day, but not about the pos­si­bil­i­ty of Dr Amery Browne con­test­ing the Diego Mar­tin West seat in­stead. Sources ex­pressed con­cern that the Prime Min­is­ter would have left many of them blind­sided, as they thought he was go­ing to lead them in­to an­oth­er elec­tion.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley re­mains silent on his po­lit­i­cal fu­ture, opt­ing not to re­spond to ques­tions about whether he will step down as Diego Mar­tin West MP—a po­si­tion he has held since 1991—or con­test the seat in the next gen­er­al elec­tion.