This pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, the first since the Jan. 6, 2021, in­sur­rec­tion at the Capi­tol, will be a stress test of the new sys­tems and guardrails that Con­gress put in place to en­sure Amer­i­ca’s long tra­di­tion of the peace­ful trans­fer of pres­i­den­tial pow­er.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher has hailed the re­cent­ly held To­b­gao Car­ni­val as safe and suc­cess­ful.

A clin­i­cal so­cial work­er at­tached to the In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Re­source Net­work (IWRN), is ad­vo­cat­ing for a more strate­gic ap­proach to help those ex­pe­ri­enc­ing sui­ci­dal feel­ings. She rec­om­mends a clear plan and con­tract to pre­vent sui­cide, along with a pro­gramme of ef­fec­tive coun­selling to help peo­ple fac­ing such a cri­sis.

Min­is­ter of Fi­nance, Colm Im­bert, said to­day that the for­eign ex­change win­dow opened by the Ex­im Bank for whole­sale im­porters of ba­sic foods and phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic was a tem­po­rary ini­tia­tive.

Pres­i­dent of the Na­tion­al Par­ent Teacher As­so­ci­a­tion (NPTA), Wal­ter Stew­art,  has con­demned the fight be­tween two moth­ers out­side Ce­dros Sec­ondary School which has gone vi­ral on so­cial me­dia.

An Is­raeli strike on a five-sto­ry build­ing where dis­placed Pales­tini­ans were shel­ter­ing in the north­ern Gaza Strip killed at least 60 peo­ple ear­ly Tues­day, more than half of them women and chil­dren, Gaza’s Health Min­istry said.

A High Court judge has sen­tenced two Trinida­di­an drug smug­glers to serve time af­ter they plead­ed guilty to pos­ses­sion, traf­fick­ing and im­port­ing 167.5 pounds of mar­i­jua­na with­in Bar­ba­dos’ ter­ri­to­r­i­al wa­ters on Oc­to­ber 14, 2021.

De­moc­rats stepped up their at­tacks on Don­ald Trump on Mon­day, a day af­ter a co­me­di­an open­ing a ral­ly for the for­mer pres­i­dent called Puer­to Ri­co a “float­ing is­land of garbage,” a com­ment that drew wide con­dem­na­tion and high­light­ed the ris­ing pow­er of a key Lati­no group in the swing state of Penn­syl­va­nia.

The Glob­al Or­gan­i­sa­tion of Peo­ple of In­di­an Ori­gin (GO­PIO) is ap­peal­ing to the Na­tion­al Coun­cil for In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC) to re­scind its in­vi­ta­tion to Stu­art Young to speak at the clos­ing night of the Di­vali Na­gar on Wednes­day.

TTT Lim­it­ed has apol­o­gised to the Na­tion­al Coun­cil for In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC) for tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ties ex­pe­ri­enced dur­ing Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s speech at the Di­vali Na­gar over the week­end, but the NCIC is yet to de­cide on whether the state-owned me­dia com­pa­ny’s ex­pres­sion of re­gret is suf­fi­cient.

The Oil­field Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) is call­ing for ur­gent ac­tion to pre­vent a fi­nan­cial cri­sis for 7,000 Petrotrin re­tirees due to the Gov­ern­ment’s al­leged fail­ure to in­ject funds in­to the Petrotrin Em­ploy­ees Pen­sion Plan (PEPP).

The where­abouts of Cunu­pia busi­ness­man Su­vesh Ram­nar­ine re­main un­known, two weeks af­ter he was bun­dled in­to a black SUV by men pos­ing as po­lice of­fi­cers.