A con­tin­gent of more than 200 Kenyan po­lice of­fi­cers re­turned home on Tues­day night from Haiti, where their ser­vices formed part of Kenya’s broad­er lead­er­ship role in the UN-backed multi­na­tion­al mis­sion aimed at im­prov­ing se­cu­ri­ty in the French-speak­ing Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) coun­try.

Venezuela’s act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez an­nounced a ma­jor Cab­i­net shake-up Wednes­day with the ap­point­ment of a new de­fense min­is­ter to re­place Gen. Vladimir Padri­no López, who had been a cor­ner­stone of the mil­i­tary’s long-stand­ing sup­port for for­mer Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr. Kei­th Row­ley is trig­ger­ing sharp re­spons­es from gov­ern­ment min­is­ters af­ter he re­ferred to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar as a “jamette”.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) says long-stand­ing plumb­ing fail­ures at its Debe cam­pus are set to be per­ma­nent­ly fixed, with ini­tial es­ti­mates for the work placed at about $4 mil­lion, as con­trac­tors pre­pare to be­gin ad­di­tion­al in­fra­struc­ture up­grades ahead of a planned Au­gust open­ing.

A co­or­di­nat­ed emer­gency re­sponse in­volv­ing the Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard, North Post Ra­dio Sta­tion, mar­itime stake­hold­ers and mem­bers of the lo­cal fish­ing com­mu­ni­ty, re­sult­ed in the res­cue of a dis­abled yacht that had be­gun drift­ing to­wards Venezue­lan wa­ters.

A com­pa­ny with­in the Warn­er Group of Com­pa­nies has been charged with 16 counts of mon­ey laun­der­ing fol­low­ing a fi­nan­cial in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to al­leged il­le­gal quar­ry­ing ac­tiv­i­ties.

Of­fi­cers of the Home In­va­sion Team ar­rest­ed a 17-year-old boy of Farm Road, St Joseph, dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion on Tues­day in con­nec­tion with a re­cent home in­va­sion at Val­sayn Av­enue, North Val­sayn.

U.S. com­pa­nies will be al­lowed to do busi­ness with Venezuela’s state-owned oil and gas com­pa­ny af­ter the Trea­sury De­part­ment eased sanc­tions, with some lim­i­ta­tions, on Wednes­day as the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion looks for ways to boost world oil sup­plies dur­ing the Iran war.

The Grena­da gov­ern­ment Wednes­day con­firmed that a fish­eries ban im­posed by the Unit­ed States has been lift­ed even as St. George’s ac­knowl­edged that there is still more work to be done.

For­mer prime min­is­ter and for­mer po­lit­i­cal leader of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), Dr Kei­th Row­ley, is stand­ing firm on his claim that he was not in­vit­ed to the par­ty’s 70th an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tions, de­spite the par­ty pro­duc­ing ev­i­dence to the con­trary.

Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the Pa­tri­ot­ic Front Mick­ela Pan­day is call­ing for cam­paign fi­nance re­form, say­ing the ab­sence of prop­er leg­is­la­tion con­tin­ues to fu­el re­peat­ed ac­cu­sa­tions about po­lit­i­cal fund­ing.

Homi­cide de­tec­tives are search­ing for a man in con­nec­tion with the killing of a 28-year-old woman who was found stabbed at her home in Granville, Ce­dros, last evening.