CAF – De­vel­op­ment Bank of Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean to­day ap­proved a grant of BBD 450,000 (USD 225,000) to sup­port Bar­ba­dos’ host­ing of CAR­IFES­TA XV.

Of­fi­cers of the Re­gion III Homi­cide Bu­reau con­firmed they have con­sult­ed the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) in re­la­tion to the shoot­ing death of 65-year-old Ch­agua­nas grand­moth­er Su­san Medra­no St Louis but said they have re­ceived no in­struc­tions to lay charges as of Mon­day morn­ing.

Hur­ri­cane Erin be­gan pelt­ing part of the Caribbean with rain and wind Mon­day be­fore it’s ex­pect­ed to churn up dan­ger­ous surf and rip cur­rents along the U.S. East Coast this week.

Even though the In­de­pen­dence Day pa­rade and fire­works show have been halt­ed or sub­dued, Pan on the Ave, the an­nu­al cel­e­bra­tion of Steel­pan on Ari­api­ta Ave, will go on as planned.

The leader of one of the most no­to­ri­ous gangs in Haiti, Jim­my Chérizier, says he is pre­pared to co­op­er­ate with the Fed­er­al Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tion (FBI) even af­ter Amer­i­can law of­fi­cials de­scribed him as a for­eign ter­ror­ist in May this year.

Se­nior po­lice of­fi­cers say the ar­rest of sev­er­al Trinida­di­an men and a Venezue­lan na­tion­al at sea, who were al­leged­ly on their way to col­lect a ship­ment of guns and il­le­gal drugs bound for this coun­try, is be­ing viewed as a ma­jor break­through in the fight against crime.

Op­po­si­tion Chief Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les has called on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar (Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil chair­man) to name the at­tor­ney with “close ties to the UNC Gov­ern­ment” who is de­mand­ing cer­tain ques­tion­able hir­ings—so much so that it has re­sult­ed in re­port­ed death threats against De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge.

There are calls for an in­ves­ti­ga­tion af­ter a woman, who did not know she was preg­nant, wait­ed two hours for an am­bu­lance that al­leged­ly nev­er ar­rived as she went in­to labour at the Cen­tre of Ex­cel­lence. The new­born ba­by boy died soon af­ter be­ing born.

A 33-year-old Table­land man lost his life at Ma­yaro Beach on Sat­ur­day, turn­ing what was meant to be a joy­ful week­end re­union in­to a scene of heart­break for a group of fam­i­lies.

Nigel Du­doon could swim, but that did not save him from drown­ing dur­ing a fam­i­ly lime at Colum­bus Bay on Sat­ur­day. Now his griev­ing rel­a­tives are urg­ing oth­ers to be cau­tious when vis­it­ing the beach.

Op­po­si­tion MP Stu­art Young has called on the Gov­ern­ment and the cur­rent board of the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of TT (NGC) to say whether NGC was suc­cess­ful in the lit­i­ga­tion against Su­per In­dus­tri­al Ser­vices (SIS) re­lat­ed to the Beetham Waste­water Plant.

Gen­er­al Man­ag­er and CEO of CEPEP Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed, Kei­th Ed­dy, has is­sued a pre-ac­tion pro­to­col let­ter to PNM Sen­a­tor Faris Al-Rawi over al­leged defama­tion, de­mand­ing a pub­lic apol­o­gy, with­draw­al of al­le­ga­tions, and com­pen­sa­tion.