There is still no of­fi­cial con­fir­ma­tion on whether the Prime Min­is­ter will at­tend next month’s Cari­com Heads of Gov­ern­ment meet­ing in St Kitts and Nevis.

The Of­fice of the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) is mov­ing to fi­nalise the process for the pay­ment of salary in­creas­es to mem­bers of the Teach­ing Ser­vice, af­ter com­plet­ing a re­quest for ad­di­tion­al in­for­ma­tion from Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo by the end of the month.

The Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) is promis­ing re­tirees that the union is near­ing fi­nal­i­sa­tion of their ten per cent agree­ment.

There has been no ob­jec­tion so far to a move to wind up the News­day news­pa­per af­ter 32 years of op­er­a­tion.