The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) says it has no fear of any in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the fi­nanc­ing of the re­con­struc­tion of its Bal­isi­er House head­quar­ters, as it dis­missed on­line spec­u­la­tion as po­lit­i­cal in­tim­i­da­tion by the Gov­ern­ment.

For­mer Fi­nance min­is­ter Win­ston Dook­er­an has ques­tioned the phe­nom­e­non of the "One Per cent" term - and whether the so­lu­tion would be "found in the ac­cep­tance of po­lit­i­cal vendet­ta be­com­ing a part of the na­tion­al agen­da, or the im­par­tial use of the state ap­pa­ra­tus be used to ad­ju­di­cate on the con­flict­ing con­tentions in the pub­lic space."

Ten years af­ter the death of for­mer prime min­is­ter and Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) leader Patrick Man­ning, Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Dr Amery Browne says he is con­vinced Man­ning would have been proud of the par­ty in its cur­rent form and would have been work­ing along­side its mem­bers to re­turn it to gov­ern­ment.

With on­ly their love, de­ter­mi­na­tion and a cool­er cov­er to keep them afloat, a fa­ther and son sur­vived a gru­elling, al­most eight-hour swim to shore af­ter an armed at­tack at sea left them fight­ing for their lives in the dark depths of the ocean.

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.