PNM po­lit­i­cal leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les says the par­ty will let the courts de­cide its bat­tle over a Pre­lim­i­nary Un­ex­plained Wealth Or­der linked to the fi­nanc­ing of Bal­isi­er House, as Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Fos­ter Cum­mings vowed the op­po­si­tion would fight the case “with all its might.”

An es­caped mur­der ac­cused was shot dead by po­lice dur­ing an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in Vista­bel­la on Fri­day night.

Af­ter suf­fer­ing a stroke more than a year ago, Heather Al­moralis-Dann says she is still wait­ing to re­ceive the funds from Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board Sick­ness Ben­e­fit, which she says will go to­wards much-need­ed med­ical and liv­ing ex­pens­es.

As a restart for the Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery looms ahead, for­mer Petrotrin chair­man Wil­fred Es­pinet, who led the clo­sure and re­struc­tur­ing of the com­pa­ny, re­mains scep­ti­cal.