Gath­ered at the Oil­field Work­ers Trade Union build­ing at the Para­mount Build­ing in San Fer­nan­do, Con­trac­tors and Gen­er­al Work­ers Trade Union pres­i­dent ex­pressed dis­ap­point­ment over the low num­bers as she re­mind­ed work­ers that May Day is root­ed in strug­gle and sac­ri­fice, from the fight for the eight-hour work­day to his­toric clash­es be­tween work­ers and po­lice. She stressed that the day is more than a cal­en­dar event, say­ing it re­mains a sym­bol of re­sis­tance, hope and the on­go­ing fight for de­cent wages and bet­ter work­ing con­di­tions.

The Min­istry of Works and In­fra­struc­ture has ad­vised the pub­lic of a tem­po­rary road clo­sure along S.S. Erin Road at the 15.8 km mark, near Mo­ra Dam Trace and Syne Trace.

Sources said Dex­ter McMil­lan was shot and killed at his home on Man­an Road, off the Ari­ma Old Road, just af­ter 12 am.

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates has of­fered her res­ig­na­tion to the Sen­ate, apol­o­gis­ing for the con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing her role on a key par­lia­men­tary over­sight com­mit­tee.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has hailed an Es­tab­lish­ment Agree­ment signed with the World Bank for the es­tab­lish­ment and op­er­a­tion of of­fices here.

Prime Min­is­ter Gas­ton Browne’s gam­ble of call­ing a gen­er­al elec­tion near­ly two years ahead of the con­sti­tu­tion­al dead­line paid off on Thurs­day, when he guid­ed his rul­ing An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Labour Par­ty (ABLP) to a com­mand­ing vic­to­ry.

The Min­istry of Health has ex­tend­ed con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly of Ma­sud Pros­per, a dri­ver em­ployed at the Min­istry, who was killed yes­ter­day af­ter­noon af­ter be­ing shot at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah (QPS).

Al­though her fam­i­ly will for­ev­er be scarred by the bru­tal mur­ders of her sis­ter Tara Ram­sa­roop and her 14-month-old niece Sher­maya Ja­da Moti­lal, Jas­so­dra Ra­jaram yes­ter­day wept tears of re­lief that their mur­der­er had been sen­tenced to death.

The im­po­si­tion of the death penal­ty on 33-year-old Rishi Moti­lal for the killing of his es­tranged girl­friend and their child has reignit­ed dis­cus­sion on the le­gal process and views on cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment.

A Bel­mont fa­ther of three was yes­ter­day killed min­utes af­ter he ar­rived at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah (QPS), Port-of-Spain, to col­lect his son from foot­ball train­ing in what his com­mon law wife be­lieves was a reprisal.

The Gov­ern­ment has strong­ly chal­lenged Op­po­si­tion leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les’ self-as­sess­ment of her first term lead­ing the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM).

Two po­lit­i­cal an­a­lysts have of­fered dif­fer­ent pre­scrip­tions for Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les as pres­sure mounts over the fu­ture of em­bat­tled Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates.