The Bar­ba­dos-based Caribbean In­sti­tute for Me­te­o­rol­o­gy and Hy­drol­o­gy (CIMH) and the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies Cli­mate Stud­ies Group Mona (UWI CS­GM) are urg­ing gov­ern­ments, busi­ness­es, farm­ers and house­holds across the re­gion to brace for po­ten­tial­ly se­vere cli­mate ex­tremes as El Niño con­di­tions con­tin­ue to strength­en.

Li­braries are safe spaces for chil­dren, par­tic­u­lar­ly at a time when young peo­ple are in­creas­ing­ly tar­get­ed by preda­tors, Na­tion­al Li­brary and In­for­ma­tion Sys­tem Au­thor­i­ty (Nalis) chair­man Dr David Muhammed said on Mon­day.

Bar­ba­dos Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley con­clud­ed a high-lev­el work­ing meet­ing in Cara­cas on Mon­day with Venezuela's Act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez, with both lead­ers agree­ing to deep­en the long­stand­ing ties of friend­ship, co­op­er­a­tion and sol­i­dar­i­ty be­tween their coun­tries.

While San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning has pub­licly aired his griev­ances with his con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive and the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), his moth­er, for­mer gov­ern­ment min­is­ter Hazel Man­ning, is tak­ing a marked­ly dif­fer­ent ap­proach.

Em­bat­tled San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning came un­der heavy crit­i­cism from the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) lead­er­ship yes­ter­day, who turned on him amid a pub­lic dis­pute with his con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive with warn­ings that dis­ci­pli­nary ac­tion could be on the hori­zon.

The re­main­ing mem­bers of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) San Fer­nan­do East (SFE) con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive, in­clud­ing chair­man Pa­tri­cia Alex­is, re­signed yes­ter­day amid the im­passe be­tween MP Bri­an Man­ning and Alex­is.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) “shad­ow MP” for San Fer­nan­do East John Michael Al­i­bo­cus says he is ready to serve as the con­stituen­cy’, as tur­moil deep­ens with­in the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) strong­hold.

No ev­i­dence was pre­sent­ed to sup­port al­le­ga­tions of cor­rup­tion made by San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning, San Fer­nan­do East ex­ec­u­tive chair­man Pa­tri­cia Alex­is, or their wit­ness­es, ac­cord­ing to Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment deputy leader San­jiv Bood­hu, who led the par­ty’s in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the mat­ter.

Miss World Trinidad and To­ba­go Geor­gia-Lee Gill has se­cured a place in the Top 40 of Miss World 2026 af­ter win­ning the Amer­i­c­as and Caribbean re­gion­al leg of the Head-to-Head Chal­lenge.

The Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of the Na­tion­al Com­mis­sion for Self Help Lim­it­ed (NC­SHL), Lester Leu, has been placed on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave with pay as the state-owned agency in­ves­ti­gates a se­ries of mis­con­duct al­le­ga­tions, in­clud­ing breach­es of pro­cure­ment pro­ce­dures, fail­ure to com­ply with board di­rec­tives and ac­tions al­leged­ly aimed at un­der­min­ing the board’s au­thor­i­ty.

Econ­o­mist Dr In­dera Sage­wan says changes to state boards fol­low­ing a change in gov­ern­ment are nor­mal, but new ap­pointees must pos­sess the skills and ex­pe­ri­ence nec­es­sary to lead in­sti­tu­tions ef­fec­tive­ly.

Fire­works Use Suf­fer­ers (FUS) pres­i­dent Nali­ni Di­al is urg­ing the Em­per­or Val­ley Zoo man­age­ment to pub­licly raise con­cerns about the use of fire­works dur­ing the In­de­pen­dence Day Pa­rade, as well as the re­lo­ca­tion of the an­nu­al event clos­er to the zoo’s com­pound.