As re­gion­al lead­ers con­vene in Mon­tego Bay, Ja­maica, to­day for the 49th Cari­com Heads of Gov­ern­ment meet­ing, this coun­try’s Prime Min­is­ter will be un­ex­plain­ably ab­sent. This means Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has cho­sen to skip the first Cari­com meet­ing of this mag­ni­tude to oc­cur dur­ing her sec­ond term as Prime Min­is­ter.

With near­ly all of a $19 mil­lion con­tract al­ready paid to a con­trac­tor for the re­fur­bish­ment of the Chatham Youth De­vel­op­ment Ap­pren­tice­ship Cen­tre, Sports and Youth Af­fairs Min­is­ter Phillip Watts is now ques­tion­ing where the mon­ey went, giv­en that the project is on­ly 70 per cent com­plete.

Em­ploy­ees and pa­trons at the Peake Yacht Ser­vices Ma­ri­na in Ch­aguara­mas around 8:15 yes­ter­day morn­ing re­ceived a spe­cial vis­it from the world’s biggest fish, the Whale Shark.

CEPEP Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed has ac­cused Stephen Samuel’s Con­trac­tors Ltd of abus­ing the courts to wage a po­lit­i­cal at­tack on the Gov­ern­ment, but then abrupt­ly with­drew its case with­out warn­ing af­ter trig­ger­ing a cost­ly le­gal re­sponse.

Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion Dr Michael Dowlath has rein­tro­duced the pub­lic an­nounce­ment of the top-per­form­ing stu­dents in the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA).

The Caribbean me­dia com­mu­ni­ty is mourn­ing the loss of one of its most re­spect­ed voic­es, vet­er­an re­gion­al jour­nal­ist Rick­ey Singh, who passed away on Sat­ur­day in Bar­ba­dos.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has con­grat­u­lat­ed stu­dents across Trinidad and To­ba­go on re­ceiv­ing their 2025 SEA re­sults, telling them they have al­ready achieved some­thing re­mark­able by show­ing re­silience and ded­i­ca­tion.

A Venezue­lan na­tion­al is among four peo­ple shot and wound­ed ear­ly Sat­ur­day when gun­men opened fire on their ve­hi­cle in San­gre Grande.

Vet­er­an broad­cast­er and cul­tur­al ad­vo­cate Hans Hanoomans­ingh has died. His pass­ing was con­firmed by his broth­er, Gideon Hanoomans­ingh, who said fu­ner­al arrange­ments are be­ing fi­nalised.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the mur­der of a 34-year-old woman who was found dead in a drain in En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas on Thurs­day night.

A woman is re­cov­er­ing af­ter she was found with stab wounds in the Cunu­pia dis­trict ear­ly Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar will not at­tend what would have been her first Cari­com Heads of Gov­ern­ment meet­ing since as­sum­ing of­fice for the sec­ond time.