Mem­bers of the me­dia have crit­i­cised Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s ab­sence from post-Cab­i­net brief­in­gs, call­ing for more di­rect en­gage­ment.

As an­oth­er day passed with­out any con­tact from miss­ing Ch­agua­nas busi­ness­man Im­raz “Clubs” Ali, fam­i­ly and friends con­tin­ued to hold out hope that he is alive.

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Faris Al-Rawi, SC, is call­ing on At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie, SC, to con­tin­ue ef­forts to en­force a US$150 mil­lion-plus judg­ment against busi­ness­man Steve Fer­gu­son, for­mer fi­nance min­is­ter Bri­an Kuei Tung, and a US busi­ness­man, fol­low­ing al­le­ga­tions of cor­rup­tion linked to the con­struc­tion of Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the mur­der of a 31-year-old busi­ness­woman who was gunned down at her Chase Vil­lage es­tab­lish­ment yes­ter­day.

Pan Trin­ba­go pres­i­dent Bev­er­ley Ram­sey-Moore says she is “ex­treme­ly wor­ried” about the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny’s (NGC) de­ci­sion to cut spon­sor­ship of three steel­bands and its part­ner­ship with Pan Trin­ba­go, warn­ing the move sends a trou­bling sig­nal to oth­er state-owned com­pa­nies.

With just over a month to go be­fore the Oc­to­ber Car­ni­val, sev­er­al of To­ba­go’s ma­jor Car­ni­val stake­hold­ers have dis­tanced them­selves from Wednes­day night’s of­fi­cial launch.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) deputy leader Colm Im­bert has ad­mit­ted that the par­ty’s de­feat in the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion stemmed from what he blunt­ly called “too many stu­pid mis­takes.”

Venezue­lan Jus­tice Min­is­ter Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of be­ing “re­spon­si­ble” for the deaths of fish­er­men killed in a U.S. mil­i­tary strike in the Caribbean.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo has de­fend­ed the dis­missal of 400 work­ers from the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP), say­ing the Op­po­si­tion has no moral au­thor­i­ty to crit­i­cise the move.

The leader of the Ja­maica Labour Par­ty (JLP), An­drew Hol­ness, will be sworn in next week for his third term in of­fice as Prime Min­is­ter of Ja­maica.

Amer­i­cans are mark­ing 24 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, at­tacks with solemn cer­e­monies, vol­un­teer work and oth­er trib­utes ho­n­our­ing the vic­tims.

Po­lice are search­ing for three men who robbed an off-du­ty prison of­fi­cer of his car, which was lat­er re­cov­ered in Laven­tille.