Pope Leo XIV on Sun­day re­ject­ed claims that God jus­ti­fies war and prayed es­pe­cial­ly for Chris­tians in the Mid­dle East dur­ing a Palm Sun­day Mass be­fore tens of thou­sands of peo­ple in St. Pe­ter’s Square.

A 51-year-old man was robbed at gun­point while at a hard­ware store in Gas­par­il­lo on Fri­day af­ter­noon.

Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) is seek­ing a fi­nan­cial bailout from the Gov­ern­ment to counter the ris­ing cost of fu­el as a re­sult of the US/Is­rael war against Iran and its im­pact on the car­ri­er’s op­er­a­tional costs.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les trad­ed sharp ac­cu­sa­tions over the use of po­lice in schools, fol­low­ing a pri­vate mo­tion in the Low­er House on Fri­day.

Mem­bers of the Spir­i­tu­al Shouter Bap­tist faith are wel­com­ing the an­nounce­ment by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar that her Gov­ern­ment plans to con­struct a sec­ondary school for the com­mu­ni­ty, re­viv­ing a long-stand­ing de­mand from with­in the faith for equal ac­cess to de­nom­i­na­tion­al ed­u­ca­tion.

Near­ly a year af­ter it was con­demned as a “free for all” and tar­get­ed for re­form, the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route pass sys­tem has been re­set, but of­fi­cial fig­ures show dis­tri­b­u­tion con­tin­ued un­changed through the tran­si­tion, rais­ing ques­tions about whether the sys­tem was ever fun­da­men­tal­ly over­hauled.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has hint­ed at a grand open­ing of the spank­ing new ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in time for To­ba­go Car­ni­val.

Stu­dents of the Fac­ul­ty of Law at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies are push­ing back against a pro­posed re­lo­ca­tion to the Debe South Cam­pus, call­ing for an ur­gent meet­ing with key stake­hold­ers, in­clud­ing Land and Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein, Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion and Skills Train­ing Min­is­ter Pro­fes­sor Prakash Per­sad, the UWI prin­ci­pal, and of­fi­cials at the Law Fac­ul­ty.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty says four crit­i­cal wells in To­ba­go have been van­dalised, re­sult­ing in wide­spread dis­rup­tion to the wa­ter sup­ply. In a me­dia re­lease yes­ter­day, WASA said the van­dal­ism took place at the Claude Noel High­way, Ba­co­let, Arnos Vale and Bloody Bay wells, leav­ing 17 ar­eas with­out a con­sis­tent sup­ply of pipe-borne wa­ter.

The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) says it is ac­knowl­edg­ing con­cerns raised by nurs­ing staff over re­cent pay­ments linked to over­time and pool as­sign­ments, as­sur­ing that the mat­ter is be­ing ad­dressed in ac­cor­dance with the law.

Pres­i­dent of the Prison Of­fi­cers As­so­ci­a­tion Ger­ard Gor­don is again rais­ing the is­sue of space at the coun­try’s pris­ons as de­tainees un­der the State of Emer­gency in­crease al­most dai­ly.

Homi­cide in­ves­ti­ga­tors were ex­pect­ed to ques­tion a teenage sus­pect yes­ter­day in con­nec­tion with the mur­der of fa­ther of two, Ra­jku­mar Pope.