Two tod­dlers and four teenagers re­main dis­placed af­ter the Mary Care Cen­tre in Wood­brook was de­stroyed by a fire on Wednes­day night.

Venezuela’s gov­ern­ment on Fri­day re­ject­ed a rul­ing from the Unit­ed Na­tions’ top court or­der­ing the South Amer­i­can coun­try to re­frain from hold­ing elec­tions for of­fi­cials who sup­pos­ed­ly would over­see a re­source-rich re­gion in neigh­bour­ing Guyana that both na­tions claim as their own.

The Bar­ba­dos-based Caribbean Cli­mate Out­look Fo­rum (Cari­COF) said Fri­day that the El Niño-South­ern Os­cil­la­tion (EN­SO) neu­tral con­di­tions in the Pa­cif­ic, com­bined with un­usu­al­ly warm wa­ters around the Caribbean, could cre­ate a re­gion­al heat sea­son with the pos­si­bil­i­ty of heat­waves, grad­u­al­ly ramp­ing up, but un­like­ly to match 2023 and 2024.

As a throng of sup­port­ers chant­ed her name on the perime­ter of Pres­i­dent’s House, St Ann’s, yes­ter­day, in­side, Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, fresh­ly sworn in as Prime Min­is­ter yet again, pledged to serve every­one re­gard­less of po­lit­i­cal af­fil­i­a­tion.

De­spite a po­lice pres­ence on the pe­riph­ery of Pres­i­dent’s House, St Ann’s, the of­fi­cers could not con­trol the crowd of sup­port­ers that mobbed Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar as she at­tempt­ed to leave the com­pound fol­low­ing her swear­ing-in yes­ter­day.

John Je­re­mie, SC, was sworn in yes­ter­day as Trinidad and To­ba­go’s new At­tor­ney Gen­er­al at Pres­i­dent’s House—mark­ing a his­toric re­turn to pub­lic of­fice un­der a dif­fer­ent po­lit­i­cal ban­ner.

Lead­ing voic­es in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s le­gal com­mu­ni­ty have ex­tend­ed con­grat­u­la­tions to John Je­re­mie SC on his re­turn as At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, call­ing the ap­point­ment a time­ly move to ad­dress ur­gent chal­lenges with­in the coun­try’s ju­di­cial sys­tem.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says the change in cen­tral gov­ern­ment will not af­fect To­ba­go’s on­go­ing ef­fort to bring San­dals back—this time with a fresh plan.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les-Robin­son says some sec­tors of so­ci­ety no longer feel the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is a car­ing par­ty.

As the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) stag­gers back to its feet in the af­ter­math of a crush­ing elec­toral de­feat on Mon­day, it turns to a fa­mil­iar but of­ten over­looked face—a woman whose po­lit­i­cal jour­ney has been de­fined not by noise but en­durance.

For the first time in T&T’s his­to­ry, the three high­est of­fices in the land are held by women.

Civ­il so­ci­ety groups and non-gov­ern­men­tal or­gan­i­sa­tions (NGOs) are ready for the Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar-led gov­ern­ment to start ful­fill­ing their cam­paign promis­es.