The Gov­ern­ment has pledged ur­gent in­ter­ven­tion at the de­te­ri­o­rat­ing Cana­da Hous­ing de­vel­op­ment in Mar­cano Quar­ry Lands, Laven­tille, days af­ter res­i­dents pub­licly de­scribed liv­ing in de­cay­ing build­ings they said have been ne­glect­ed for years.

Mt St George Sev­enth-day Ad­ven­tist (SDA) pas­tor Dar­i­an Rouse has called for a re-eval­u­a­tion of the church’s mes­sag­ing to en­sure all mem­bers feel val­ued.

Op­po­si­tion MP for Laven­tille East/Mor­vant Chris­t­ian Birch­wood is ac­cus­ing the Gov­ern­ment of fun­da­men­tal­ly mis­un­der­stand­ing the pur­pose of the Mil­i­tary-Led Aca­d­e­m­ic Train­ing (Mi­LAT) pro­gramme, ar­gu­ing that it was nev­er in­tend­ed to be judged on fi­nan­cial vi­a­bil­i­ty.

If Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar in­tends to re­vive the is­sue of the reap­point­ment of Cari­com Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett at the up­com­ing Cari­com con­fer­ence, for­mer For­eign Af­fairs min­is­ter Dr Amery Browne says the re­gion­al group­ing should re­sist any such move and in­stead fo­cus on pro­vid­ing as­sis­tance to Venezuela.

Not every child per­forms at their best on the same day, and for ed­u­ca­tion stake­hold­ers, that re­al­i­ty is at the cen­tre of re­newed dis­cus­sion about whether the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) should con­tin­ue to re­ly on a sin­gle high-stakes ex­am­i­na­tion.

For­mer en­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young has launched a scathing at­tack on Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Dr Roodal Mooni­lal over his han­dling of the Bar­rack­pore oil leak, say­ing he feels “sor­ry” for him and ac­cus­ing him of be­ing “hap­less, in­com­pe­tent and com­plete­ly out of his depth” in in­ter­pret­ing what he in­sists was a rou­tine en­er­gy op­er­a­tion.

Gov­ern­ment-or­gan­ised aid for earth­quake-strick­en Venezuela will be trans­port­ed by the Galleons Pas­sage to the hard­est hit area of La Guaira soon, pri­vate sec­tor sup­plies leave in few days - and en­er­gy gi­ant Shell has com­mit­ted a US $5 mil­lion dis­as­ter re­lief fund to sup­port re­spons­es and res­cue ef­forts in Venezuela.

A 20-year-old man has been charged with the mur­der of a 23-year-old man whose body was found along Man­zanil­la Road in May.

The le­gal no­tices set­ting out the grounds for the Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) is­sued against busi­ness ex­ec­u­tives Do­minic Hadeed, Genevieve Hadeed and Star Sab­ga have now been pub­lished, al­leg­ing they were in­volved in an on­go­ing con­spir­a­cy to as­sas­si­nate mem­bers of the Gov­ern­ment.

That is how the par­ents of a 13-year-old boy, who was bru­tal­ly mur­dered along­side his babysit­ter dur­ing a 2017 home in­va­sion, de­scribed the grief they con­tin­ue to en­dure af­ter one of the men re­spon­si­ble for the shock­ing crime was re­cent­ly sen­tenced to more than 11 years in prison.

A man from Mara­bel­la, ac­cused of stab­bing his moth­er's teenage ten­ant to death when he was 14 years old, has been re­leased af­ter spend­ing al­most two decades in prison.

A 64-year-old man was gunned down on Wednes­day night and two oth­ers, in­clud­ing a 15-year-old girl, were shot.