Re­ports from NOAA and the Hur­ri­cane Hunter air­craft have in­di­cat­ed the pres­ence of hur­ri­cane-force winds with­in the sys­tem, re­sult­ing in Erin be­ing des­ig­nat­ed as the first hur­ri­cane of the 2025 sea­son.

Flash floods trig­gered by tor­ren­tial rains have killed over 200 peo­ple and left scores of oth­ers miss­ing in In­dia and Pak­istan over the past 24 hours, of­fi­cials said Fri­day, as res­cuers brought to safe­ty some 1,600 peo­ple from two moun­tain­ous dis­tricts in the neigh­bor­ing coun­tries.

The St. Kitts and Nevis gov­ern­ment Fri­day said it is in the fi­nal stages of ne­go­ti­a­tions for the re­pur­pos­ing of the his­toric Fort Thomas Ho­tel prop­er­ty at Fort­lands, Bas­seterre, in­to a world-class Mu­se­um of Caribbean His­to­ry.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says her mi­grant pol­i­cy, which is not yet com­plet­ed, will not be one of mass de­por­ta­tions of mi­grants.

Six Venezue­lan na­tion­als were held while at­tempt­ing to en­ter the coun­try il­le­gal­ly on Tues­day night. In a state­ment yes­ter­day, the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) praised its of­fi­cers, along with the T&T Coast Guard (TTCG), for the in­ter­cep­tion.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is promis­ing a ma­jor re­boot of state-fund­ed youth ini­tia­tives, this time with ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence, dig­i­tal lit­er­a­cy, and in­dus­try-aligned train­ing at the fore­front.

The Court of Ap­peal has been asked to weigh in on a con­tentious lit­i­ga­tion over a move by the Gov­ern­ment to ter­mi­nate over 300 Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme Com­pa­ny (CEPEP) con­trac­tors. 

At least three Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ters are sup­port­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s de­ci­sion to is­sue fierce warn­ings to her team to stop cer­tain prac­tices and “straight­en up.”

Just over one hun­dred days in­to the Gov­ern­ment’s term in of­fice, Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe says his min­istry has al­ready made mea­sur­able progress.

Trade unions are ea­ger­ly an­tic­i­pat­ing the re­lease of the Gov­ern­ment’s pro­posed work­ers’ agen­da, which is be­ing pro­mot­ed as the an­swer to sev­er­al long-stand­ing in­dus­tri­al re­la­tions is­sues, in­clud­ing an over re­liance on con­tract labour.

De­ter­mined not to al­low his girl­friend to be vi­o­lat­ed yes­ter­day, a Cen­tral man chased a ban­dit and held on to him af­ter he snatched a hand band from his la­dy love.

Sev­er­al Cus­toms clerks are ex­press­ing frus­tra­tion over the lack of ac­ces­si­ble wash­room fa­cil­i­ties at the San Fer­nan­do Cus­toms of­fice.