The Cen­tral Bank of The Ba­hamas (CBB) says while the eco­nom­ic out­look for the coun­try re­mains pos­i­tive, it could al­so be “sig­nif­i­cant­ly” erod­ed if the Mid­dle East con­flict be­comes pro­tract­ed.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the theft of a handy­man’s gold ring from a wash­room at the St James Po­lice Train­ing Acad­e­my ear­ly on Tues­day morn­ing.

A 29-year-old man is hos­pi­talised af­ter he was se­vere­ly beat­en and chopped dur­ing an ear­ly morn­ing at­tack on Mon­day.

In­stead of prepar­ing for the first birth­day of her in­fant son, Leona Allen now has to make fu­ner­al arrange­ments for her son and com­mon-law hus­band, af­ter an ear­ly morn­ing shoot­ing in Dun­don­ald Hill, St James.

A prison of­fi­cer is among the lat­est batch of peo­ple who were served with Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) un­der the State of Emer­gency (SoE).

The Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment and Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers (NUGFW) has signed off on a ten per cent wage in­crease, a deal that will cost the State $2.6 bil­lion in back­pay and add $252 mil­lion an­nu­al­ly to the na­tion­al wage bill.

Teach­ers re­main in the dark over their back­pay, as the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) now says he is not aware of when the pay­ment would be made, de­spite the Fi­nance Min­is­ter’s as­sur­ance of a March pay­out.

More than 120 cubs and scouts from across the South Cen­tral Dis­trict took part in the first an­nu­al dis­trict camp over the week­end, as the scout move­ment con­tin­ues to in­stil in young peo­ple life skills, dis­ci­pline and team­work.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of ig­nor­ing a deep­en­ing health­care cri­sis, call­ing on her to im­me­di­ate­ly ad­dress the na­tion and out­line a plan to fix the sys­tem.

Dis­grun­tled nurs­es are call­ing for the Min­is­ter of Health and the chair­man of the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) to in­ter­vene to ad­dress their con­cerns about over­time pay­ment, staffing and gen­er­al work­ing con­di­tions.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) says sev­er­al busi­ness op­er­a­tions as­sis­tants (BOAs), some with up to 20 years of ser­vice, have been sent home from schools with­out re­ceiv­ing their re­mu­ner­a­tion.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has bro­ken weeks of si­lence over the con­tro­ver­sial Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT) ex­ec­u­tive re­treat, dis­put­ing claims that it cost the State more than $400,000.