Two of this coun­try’s main avi­a­tion unions have re­quest­ed ur­gent talks with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, af­ter she de­clared that Caribbean Air­lines Lim­it­ed (CAL) has two years to ad­dress its fi­nan­cial is­sues or face po­ten­tial job loss­es.

The Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) has not is­sued any in­struc­tions to lay charges against any­one re­gard­ing the shoot­ing of a 65-year-old Ch­agua­nas grand­moth­er Su­san Medra­no St Louis.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing, Phillip Alexan­der, says the Gov­ern­ment in­tends to in­crease the num­ber of life­guards and ex­pand the beach­es they man across the coun­try.

CSEC and CAPE 2025 re­sults are in! And while the over­all per­for­mance has im­proved, TTUTA pres­i­dent Mar­tin Lum Kin ad­mits that Math­e­mat­ics re­mains the biggest hur­dle.

Twelve Venezue­lans who are in this coun­try il­le­gal­ly are ex­pect­ed to be charged with sev­er­al of­fences.

A 42-year-old se­cu­ri­ty guard is in sta­ble con­di­tion at the hos­pi­tal af­ter a gun­man en­tered his Pe­nal home and shot him sev­er­al times.

The Wood­brook Fel­low­ship Friend­ly So­ci­ety has recog­nised the aca­d­e­m­ic achieve­ment of one of its youngest mem­bers, Zari­ah Gor­mandy, who se­cured a place at Holy Name Con­vent, Port of Spain, af­ter suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ing the 2025 Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am­i­na­tion.

Cab­i­net min­is­ters have ex­pressed con­cern over threats made against De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge, as se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies con­tin­ue to in­ves­ti­gate a re­port­ed as­sas­si­na­tion plot.

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.