Op­po­si­tion Leader and sole nom­i­nee for the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) lead­er­ship Pen­ne­lope Beck­les re­mains un­fazed by the ap­par­ent lack of sup­port from key par­ty fig­ures, in­clud­ing stal­wart Fer­die Fer­reira and MPs Stu­art Young and Camille Robin­son-Reg­is.

One month in­to the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment’s term, po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tist Dr In­di­ra Ram­per­sad and for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment min­is­ter Karen Nunez-Tesheira have praised Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar for her ‘no-non­sense’ lead­er­ship style in her sec­ond stint in of­fice.

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Faris Al-Rawi is de­fend­ing the con­tin­ued use of vir­tu­al court ap­pear­ances at po­lice sta­tions, in­sist­ing the prac­tice is legal­ly ground­ed, care­ful­ly reg­u­lat­ed, and es­sen­tial to de­liv­er­ing jus­tice ef­fi­cient­ly. He warned against what he called a carte blanche re­jec­tion of the sys­tem, call­ing such crit­i­cisms ill-in­formed and po­ten­tial­ly harm­ful to pub­lic con­fi­dence.

The call comes af­ter the high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed One Caribbean Mu­sic Fes­ti­val failed to de­liv­er head­line act Adid­ja "Vy­bz Kar­tel" Palmer, whose book­ing re­port­ed­ly cost a stag­ger­ing US$1.35 mil­lion.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has as­sured stake­hold­ers, in­clud­ing those in the firearm in­dus­try, that they will be in­clud­ed in con­sul­ta­tions on the craft­ing of Gov­ern­ment’s pro­posed stand-your-ground leg­is­la­tion.

Cul­tur­al aca­d­e­m­ic Dr Jo-anne Tull is sup­port­ing calls to reg­u­late the en­ter­tain­ment in­dus­try through leg­is­la­tion.

A woman who al­leged­ly stabbed her com­mon-law hus­band to death dur­ing an al­ter­ca­tion has been charged with manslaugh­ter.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe says he will ini­ti­ate in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to com­plaints at the Med­ical Records De­part­ment at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal af­ter staff mem­bers raised al­le­ga­tions of un­safe work­ing con­di­tions, nepo­tism, and vic­tim­i­sa­tion.

The man, whose iden­ti­ty was with­held based on the na­ture of the case and its even­tu­al out­come, was ac­quit­ted of the sex­u­al pen­e­tra­tion of a mi­nor charge at the end of his judge-alone tri­al be­fore Jus­tice Lisa Ram­sumair-Hinds on Mon­day.

Op­po­si­tion mem­bers are stand­ing unit­ed against the Gov­ern­ment’s cam­paign promise to re­move the de­mer­it point sys­tem. 

The Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion is re­call­ing all Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route (PBR) Let­ter Per­mits num­bered 0001 through 0645, ren­der­ing them in­valid from Ju­ly 1, 2025.

Ve­ra Melville is thank­ful to fire of­fi­cers for sav­ing her home and the life of her in­ca­pac­i­tat­ed daugh­ter.