For­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young is en­ti­tled to a pen­sion un­der the Prime Min­is­ter’s Pen­sion Act, ef­fec­tive once he ex­its pub­lic of­fice.

Soon-to-be ex-chair­man of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty Ravin­dra Nan­ga, SC, says a de­ci­sion not to re­new the con­tracts of some 400 em­ploy­ees was not done out of mal­ice.

At­tor­neys with­in the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) say they do not feel slight­ed by the ap­point­ment of John Je­re­mie as At­tor­ney Gen­er­al. In fact, one says she is not ex­pe­ri­enced enough to hold the sec­ond-high­est po­si­tion in the coun­try’s Gov­ern­ment.

The new Cab­i­net of the Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar ad­min­is­tra­tion will be sworn in­to of­fice at 4 pm to­day at the Pres­i­dent’s House.

There were no con­grat­u­la­tions but rather con­dem­na­tion from the Pa­tri­ot­ic Front (PF) over John Je­re­mie’s ap­point­ment to At­tor­ney Gen­er­al.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day re­ceived a call from Unit­ed States Sec­re­tary of State, Mar­co Ru­bio, con­grat­u­lat­ing her on her vic­to­ry in the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, the US State De­part­ment con­firmed.

​In the wake of the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, the fu­ture of 14 un­suc­cess­ful po­lit­i­cal par­ties re­mains un­cer­tain.

Ter­rence Deyals­ingh’s elec­tion de­feat in Aranguez/ St Joseph may have been due in part to grow­ing dis­sat­is­fac­tion among farm­ers in the con­stituen­cy.

South-west­ern po­lice were yes­ter­day hunt­ing for the three sus­pects in­volved in the rob­bery and sub­se­quent mur­der of Coast Guardsman Da­cian John in Point Fortin in the ear­ly hours yes­ter­day morn­ing.

A po­lice of­fi­cer and a Cara­pichaima man have been charged with mul­ti­ple of­fences re­lat­ed to ex­tor­tion.

Six chil­dren who were dis­placed af­ter a fire de­stroyed the Mary Care Cen­tre in Wood­brook on Wednes­day are now safe at the St Jude’s Home for Girls in Diego Mar­tin.

Bur­glars made off with over $230,000 in cash and oth­er items from the home of a teacher in New Grant.