The Dou­ble Palm Inn, Arou­ca, was robbed of close to $30,000 in cash dur­ing the ear­ly hours of Mon­day, by two gun­men.

Crime has al­ways been deemed a po­lit­i­cal foot­ball and with the count­down to the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion now on, the ques­tion is which par­ty will score enough points to tack­le the is­sue for cit­i­zens.  

A pair of busi­ness­men and a com­pa­ny owned by one of them have been or­dered to re­pay $7 mil­lion to a com­pa­ny for a con­struc­tion project that did not get off the ground.

A po­lice of­fi­cer who once sued the po­lice ser­vice and won is now its main de­fend­er as he as­sumed the po­si­tion of Head Le­gal last week.

Di­rec­tor of the Autism Sup­port Net­work T&T, Dr Rad­i­ca Ma­hase, is call­ing on Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rence Deyals­ingh to re­duce the wait time for autism di­ag­no­sis at health­care fa­cil­i­ties.

Lons­dale Saatchi & Saatchi Ad­ver­tis­ing Lim­it­ed, along with its Ex­ec­u­tive Chair­man, Ken­rick At­tale, are cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly re­fut­ing what it calls the base­less and defam­a­to­ry al­le­ga­tions made by the “Kick Out the PNM” Face­book page.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has strong­ly con­demned the re­cent acts of van­dal­ism and theft tar­get­ing its in­fra­struc­ture in the Gas­par­il­lo area, which have se­vere­ly dis­rupt­ed wa­ter sup­ply to sev­er­al res­i­dents.

Four peo­ple were ar­rest­ed and one firearm and quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion were seized dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed across sev­er­al di­vi­sions yes­ter­day.

Out­go­ing Cou­va South MP Rudranath In­dars­ingh has reaf­firmed his com­mit­ment to the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress even as he has not been cho­sen to con­test the seat in the 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tion on April 28.

The New York-based Amer­i­can Foun­da­tion for the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (AFUWI) says that for­mer Ja­maica Am­bas­sador to the Unit­ed States and the Or­ga­ni­za­tion of Amer­i­can States (OAS)  Au­drey Marks, will be among hon­orees for its 28th An­nu­al Schol­ar­ship Awards Gala, The Lega­cy Con­tin­ues, this week in Man­hat­tan.

Res­cue work­ers saved a 63-year-old woman from the rub­ble of a build­ing in Myan­mar’s cap­i­tal on Tues­day, but hope was fad­ing of find­ing many more sur­vivors of the vi­o­lent earth­quake that killed more than 2,700 peo­ple, com­pound­ing a hu­man­i­tar­i­an cri­sis caused by a civ­il war.

Arch­bish­op Bar­bara Gray-Burke is pre­pared to op­pose the in­stal­la­tion of Stu­art Young as Prime Min­is­ter to the Privy Coun­cil if she has to.