Two bus­es and two oth­er ve­hi­cles crashed ear­ly Wednes­day on a high­way in west­ern Ugan­da, killing at least 46 peo­ple, po­lice said, in one of the worst mo­tor ac­ci­dents in the East African coun­try in re­cent years.

Trop­i­cal Storm Melis­sa dumped heavy rain on parts of Haiti and the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic on Wednes­day as fore­cast­ers warned of a sig­nif­i­cant flood risk in parts of the north­ern Caribbean in the com­ing days.

The Book Grant and School Sup­plies Pro­gramme is now in doubt af­ter the Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter con­firmed it is cur­rent­ly un­der re­view. No funds have been al­lo­cat­ed to the ini­tia­tive in this fi­nan­cial year.

With just six weeks left in the life of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly, Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine of­fered no hint of an elec­tion time­line, say­ing on­ly that it “could be any time” and that no de­ci­sion has yet been tak­en on dis­solv­ing the As­sem­bly.

Cana­di­an fer­tilis­er gi­ant Nu­trien has re­ject­ed claims by the Na­tion­al En­er­gy Cor­po­ra­tion (NEC) that it owes sev­er­al mil­lion dol­lars in retroac­tive port fees, trig­ger­ing a stand­off that has forced the com­pa­ny to be­gin a con­trolled shut­down of its Trinidad Ni­tro­gen op­er­a­tions.

As hun­dreds, pos­si­bly thou­sands, of peo­ple sign up for jobs un­der the Gov­ern­ment’s Na­tion­al Re­cruit­ment Dri­ve, sev­er­al min­istries are prepar­ing to short­list ap­pli­cants and be­gin in­ter­views in the com­ing weeks.

Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie of­fi­cial­ly demits of­fice to­day, bring­ing to an end more than 17 years at the helm of the Ju­di­cia­ry.

Fund­ing for the set­tle­ment of pub­lic ser­vants’ salary pay­ments is not in­clud­ed in the UNC Gov­ern­ment’s 2026 Bud­get, nor is there any in­creased al­lo­ca­tion in the Min­istry of the Peo­ple to cov­er the Jan­u­ary 1 hike in Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Scheme (NIS) con­tri­bu­tions.

Op­po­si­tion MP Stu­art Young has ac­cused the Min­istry of the Peo­ple of fail­ing to com­ply with the Pub­lic Pro­cure­ment and Dis­pos­al of Pub­lic Prop­er­ty Act by not post­ing in­for­ma­tion on se­cu­ri­ty ser­vices ten­ders on its web­site, de­spite claims to the con­trary by Min­is­ter of the Peo­ple Van­dana Mo­hit.

One week af­ter two Trinida­di­an men were killed in a US mil­i­tary airstrike off the coast of Venezuela, res­i­dents and fish­er­folk in Ica­cos say that while there is some un­ease, dai­ly life has large­ly re­turned to nor­mal as they con­tin­ue to ven­ture out to sea.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is call­ing for a full in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the deaths of two Trinida­di­an fish­er­men re­port­ed­ly killed dur­ing a US op­er­a­tion in Venezue­lan wa­ters on Oc­to­ber 14, amid grow­ing con­cerns over the gov­ern­ment’s han­dling of a re­cent US Em­bassy se­cu­ri­ty alert.

Hun­dreds of mas­quer­aders who feared they would miss To­ba­go Car­ni­val be­cause they could not se­cure flights to the is­land may now get to take part in the fes­ti­val, as Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine an­nounced that Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) has added more than 3,000 seats to the do­mes­tic air­bridge.