Ris­ing fu­el costs, dis­con­tent with the state of schools, de­clin­ing pub­lic ser­vices and a hous­ing cri­sis have cre­at­ed per­fect­ly stormy weath­er for an au­tumn of protests in Eu­rope.

Gangs in Haiti opened fire on an ar­moured ve­hi­cle over the week­end, leav­ing four sol­diers from El Sal­vador un­ac­count­ed for in the first ma­jor at­tack since an in­ter­na­tion­al gang sup­pres­sion force be­gan op­er­a­tions in the vi­o­lence-wracked Caribbean coun­try.

For­mer Cuban Pres­i­dent Raúl Cas­tro is fac­ing more charges in Flori­da re­lat­ed to the 1996 down­ing of civil­ian planes flown by Mi­a­mi-based ex­iles af­ter the U.S. gov­ern­ment in­dict­ed the for­mer leader ear­li­er this year.

So­cial De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Van­dana Mo­hit has chal­lenged Op­po­si­tion MP Camille Robin­son-Reg­is to an­swer ques­tions about the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty’s fi­nan­cial man­age­ment, as their dis­pute over the in­sti­tu­tion’s over­sight and treat­ment of chil­dren in State care con­tin­ues.

For­mer Hous­ing Min­is­ter Camille Robin­son-Reg­is has chal­lenged Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Alexan­der to ex­plain how the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) vet­ted con­trac­tors se­lect­ed for a $3.48 bil­lion hous­ing pro­gramme, af­ter an Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion (OPR) in­quiry found de­fi­cien­cies in the process.

Lib­er­ty Caribbean is urg­ing em­ploy­ees and cus­tomers to be alert to AI-gen­er­at­ed im­per­son­ation at­tempts, sus­pi­cious mes­sages and re­quests for sen­si­tive in­for­ma­tion as part of Cy­ber­se­cu­ri­ty Aware­ness Month.

UNC MP for La Hor­quet­ta/Tal­paro Phillip Watts has drawn crit­i­cism af­ter com­ment­ing on the ap­pear­ance and sex­u­al moral­i­ty of fe­male MPs dur­ing Sat­ur­day night's de­bate on the 2027 na­tion­al bud­get.

For­mer pub­lic util­i­ties min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les is call­ing for a crim­i­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to an al­leged wa­ter truck­ing rack­et at the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA).

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Alexan­der has de­fend­ed the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion’s (HDC) se­lec­tion of con­trac­tors for a $3.48 bil­lion hous­ing pro­gramme, ar­gu­ing that the com­pa­nies were drawn from the Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion’s reg­istry and sub­ject­ed to fur­ther fi­nan­cial checks be­fore con­tracts were signed.

Oil­field Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) pres­i­dent gen­er­al An­cel Ro­get says Pa­tri­ot­ic En­er­gies and Tech­nolo­gies Com­pa­ny Ltd will be part of what­ev­er arrange­ment emerges for the re­open­ing of the Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery, al­though he has not dis­closed who the prospec­tive op­er­a­tor will be.

The own­ers of a Chi­nese restau­rant in To­ba­go were robbed and beat­en dur­ing a home in­va­sion ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.

A Care­nage man was shot dead by po­lice af­ter al­leged­ly point­ing a firearm at of­fi­cers while at­tempt­ing to evade cap­ture fol­low­ing a high-speed chase through Mal­abar and Ari­ma ear­ly Sat­ur­day morn­ing.