Man­ches­ter Unit­ed great Alex Fer­gu­son was tak­en to the hos­pi­tal af­ter feel­ing un­well ahead of his for­mer team’s Pre­mier League game against Liv­er­pool on Sun­day.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les says Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and her Gov­ern­ment must al­so an­swer se­ri­ous ques­tions, as she re­spond­ed to ac­cu­sa­tions that the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment is con­trolled by out­side in­ter­ests.

A Siparia man is dead af­ter a fa­tal crash along the Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way in the ear­ly hours of Sun­day morn­ing.

A se­nior po­lice of­fi­cer says he is heart­ened by the sup­port and con­sid­er­a­tion ex­tend­ed to of­fi­cers by Cunu­pia res­i­dents as they ini­ti­at­ed a man­hunt against ban­dits.

As the Caribbean lags be­hind the rest of the world in adopt­ing re­new­able forms of en­er­gy, the In­ter­na­tion­al Re­new­able En­er­gy Agency (IRE­NA) will launch a Latin Ame­ca and Caribbean ini­tia­tive this Oc­to­ber.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar spent part of her Sat­ur­day at­tend­ing the Air Sup­ply con­cert.

A ten-page whistle­blow­er re­port out­lin­ing con­cerns with­in First Cit­i­zens, in par­tic­u­lar the con­duct and ac­tions of Deputy Chair­man Dr Ster­ling Frost, has been sub­mit­ted to its Board of Di­rec­tors for ur­gent ac­tion.

Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee says he will have a dis­cus­sion with the Fi­nance Min­is­ter to see what can be done for Re­pub­lic Bank to hold off on in­creas­ing fees.

A war of words has erupt­ed be­tween the Gov­ern­ment and the Op­po­si­tion af­ter a dra­mat­ic walk­out in Par­lia­ment over a mo­tion tar­get­ing two Op­po­si­tion sen­a­tors, fur­ther deep­en­ing ten­sions in­side the leg­is­la­ture.

For­mer prime min­is­ter and for­mer en­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has fired back at Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union pres­i­dent gen­er­al An­cel Ro­get, ac­cus­ing him of in­grat­i­tude and mis­lead­ing work­ers, as a war of words es­ca­lates over the Gov­ern­ment’s en­er­gy agen­da.

Scores of peo­ple flocked to the Guapo Recre­ation­al Ground on Fri­day night for a taste of the gayelle as the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) brought stick­fight­ing to the com­mu­ni­ty.

More than three years af­ter the then Hous­ing Min­is­ters Camille Robin­son-Reg­is and Adri­an Leonce, as well as St Au­gus­tine Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment Khadi­jah Ameen, over­saw a sod-turn­ing cer­e­mo­ny for the Orop­une Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre, the project re­mains in­com­plete.