U.S. spe­cial en­voy Steve Witkoff met with Eu­ro­pean lead­ers in Paris on Thurs­day to dis­cuss se­cu­ri­ty guar­an­tees for Ukraine, as al­lies seek to en­sure long-term mil­i­tary sup­port for the war-torn na­tion and se­cure con­tin­ued Amer­i­can back­ing af­ter the con­flict ends.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is fac­ing mount­ing crit­i­cism at home and abroad, af­ter her strong en­dorse­ment of Tues­day’s US mil­i­tary strike on an al­leged Venezue­lan drug ves­sel that killed 11 mem­bers of the Tren de Aragua car­tel. And she is now be­ing urged to watch her tone on the on­go­ing US ac­tion in the Caribbean.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has thanked the Unit­ed States mil­i­tary for car­ry­ing out a strike on a ves­sel in the south­ern Caribbean sus­pect­ed of trans­port­ing nar­cotics. He said he does not pity the 11 peo­ple who died on the ves­sel or any­one run­ning afoul of the law.

For al­most an hour, a Clax­ton Bay fam­i­ly was ter­rorised by in­trud­ers who beat them and threat­ened to set them on fire dur­ing a home in­va­sion on Tues­day morn­ing.

The man­age­ment of the Pub­lic Trans­port Ser­vice Cor­po­ra­tion (PTSC) yes­ter­day reached out and of­fered con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly of teenag­er Lysanne Julien, 19, fol­low­ing her death in an ear­ly morn­ing ac­ci­dent in Port-of-Spain.

Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) has de­nied claims that CEO Garvin Med­era has been sent on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave. The air­line made the com­ment af­ter a mes­sage, ti­tled “Caribbean Air­lines An­nounces Lead­er­ship Tran­si­tion and Sta­bil­i­ty and Growth Strat­e­gy,” be­gan cir­cu­lat­ing on­line. The mes­sage claimed that Med­era had been “placed on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave, ef­fec­tive im­me­di­ate­ly, pend­ing the out­come of an in­ter­nal re­view.” The mes­sage al­so claimed the air­line’s Chief Op­er­at­ing Of­fi­cer, Nir­mala Ra­mai, would take over as act­ing CEO un­til fur­ther no­tice.

Stand­ing un­der the warm weath­er yes­ter­day, the Venezue­lan shore­line could be seen clear­ly with the naked eye from Ica­cos Bay. Even as the waves crashed rhyth­mi­cal­ly as fish­er­men re­turned with their catch, be­neath the calm was a grow­ing un­ease.

Four al­leged gang lead­ers are among eight men de­tained at the in­struc­tion of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der, un­der the State of Emer­gency reg­u­la­tions.

New­ly ap­point­ed In­dus­tri­al Court judge Rudranath In­dars­ingh says that al­though he has long­stand­ing ties to the gov­ern­ment, his con­duct on the bench will demon­strate his im­par­tial­i­ty.

A busi­ness­man has with­drawn his law­suit over a pro­tract­ed de­lay in de­cid­ing on his Firearm User’s Li­cence (FUL) ap­pli­ca­tion af­ter Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro agreed to com­plete the process be­fore the end of next month.

Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) has de­nied claims that CEO Garvin Med­era has been sent on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave. On Wednes­day a mes­sage be­gan cir­cu­lat­ing on­line ti­tled “Caribbean Air­lines An­nounces Lead­er­ship Tran­si­tion and Sta­bil­i­ty and Growth Strat­e­gy”.

As par­ents and guardians rushed to make last-minute prepa­ra­tions ahead of schools re­open­ing next week, of­fi­cers of the In­ter-Agency Task Force (IATF) launched an ini­tia­tive in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day to ease stu­dents’ re­turn by pro­vid­ing free hair­cuts to scores of young men and women.