Gov­ern­ment is promis­ing a “very ro­bust” leg­isla­tive agen­da when Par­lia­ment re­sumes on Fri­day, with leg­is­la­tion aimed at re­mov­ing what the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion de­scribes as a long­stand­ing bot­tle­neck in the con­struc­tion ap­proval process set to come be­fore the House.

For­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) sen­a­tor and Pub­lic Re­la­tions Of­fi­cer (PRO) Ronald Hug­gins has been ap­point­ed man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC), with the Gov­ern­ment dis­miss­ing con­cerns about his pre­vi­ous po­lit­i­cal af­fil­i­a­tion and in­sist­ing his abil­i­ty to de­liv­er is what mat­ters.

San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning is chal­leng­ing the con­sti­tu­tion­al­i­ty of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) process for de­ter­min­ing the par­ty groups el­i­gi­ble to par­tic­i­pate in in­ter­nal elec­tions, warn­ing that the list of 30 par­ty groups de­clared for the con­stituen­cy is not a valid roll and that any ex­ec­u­tive elect­ed on it would be open to chal­lenge.

Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) lead­er­ship of­fi­cials have de­nied that San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning was “bul­lied” at last Fri­day’s vir­tu­al Gen­er­al Coun­cil meet­ing and that his mi­cro­phone alone was mut­ed.

Three peo­ple, in­clud­ing the cap­tain of the ill-fat­ed MV Bari­ma that sank on Ju­ly 18, killing more than 100 peo­ple, ap­peared in court on Mon­day, but the mat­ter was ad­journed to Sep­tem­ber 14.

An­tigua and Bar­bu­da’s Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter, Daryll Matthew, has de­scribed as “his­toric” the de­ci­sion to pro­vide “uni­ver­sal free ed­u­ca­tion from ear­ly child­hood to uni­ver­si­ty” as the new school term got un­der­way in An­tigua and Bar­bu­da on Mon­day.

Fed­er­al in­ves­ti­ga­tors ex­am­in­ing why an Ama­zon car­go jet bar­reled off a run­way at Mi­a­mi In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port and in­to ve­hi­cles, killing at least five peo­ple, are like­ly to fo­cus on a cru­cial mo­ment in the land­ing: whether the plane touched down too late to stop safe­ly.

CARI­COM is call­ing for deep­er co­op­er­a­tion be­tween the Caribbean and Africa as the Com­mu­ni­ty marks the fifth an­niver­sary of CARI­COM-Africa Day.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion said all 777 Gov­ern­ment and Gov­ern­ment-As­sist­ed schools, in­clud­ing Ear­ly Child­hood Care and Ed­u­ca­tion cen­tres, opened on Mon­day for the start of the 2026/2027 aca­d­e­m­ic year, al­though re­pair work re­mains out­stand­ing at a few schools.

A 65-year-old busi­ness­man is as­sist­ing po­lice with in­ves­ti­ga­tions af­ter he in­ad­ver­tent­ly left his li­censed firearm and am­mu­ni­tion on the rear bumper of his ve­hi­cle in El So­cor­ro on Sun­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has urged teach­ers to send dis­rup­tive stu­dents home and leave par­ents to deal with them, sig­nalling a ze­ro-tol­er­ance ap­proach to in­dis­ci­pline as schools re­open for the 2026/2027 aca­d­e­m­ic year to­day.

Po­lice will use da­ta gath­ered dur­ing the last aca­d­e­m­ic year to tar­get fight­ing, va­p­ing and mar­i­jua­na pos­ses­sion in schools this term, with 51 schools re­main­ing on the School-Ori­ent­ed Polic­ing (SOP) pro­gramme for now.