Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has raised se­ri­ous con­cerns over what she de­scribes as Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s “dic­ta­to­r­i­al” be­hav­iour, fol­low­ing com­ments made by the head of gov­ern­ment in re­sponse to ques­tions about a po­ten­tial mil­i­tary fa­cil­i­ty.

CARI­COM Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett has called on the re­gion to deep­en uni­ty and col­lec­tive ac­tion as Caribbean states con­front the ef­fects of nat­ur­al dis­as­ters, geopo­lit­i­cal pres­sures and eco­nom­ic un­cer­tain­ty.

Ukrain­ian forces hit an oil ter­mi­nal, a pipeline, two parked jet fight­ers and two ships in a se­ries of strikes on Russ­ian soil, of­fi­cials said Mon­day.

PNM To­ba­go leader An­cil Den­nis has promised that To­bag­o­ni­ans will be in­formed in ad­vance of over­seas trav­el by To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly sec­re­taries and that of­fi­cials will be re­quired to ac­count to the pub­lic on their re­turn.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a re­port that a man who was re­port­ed miss­ing may have been killed, af­ter his moth­er told of­fi­cers she re­ceived mul­ti­ple calls claim­ing he was shot dur­ing an al­ter­ca­tion in the Beetham area and his body dumped in near­by lo­ca­tions.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the pho­to of what ap­pears to be a US mil­i­tary base in To­ba­go, in fact, shows what she de­scribed as “sup­port of­fices” for the mil­i­tary radar sys­tem on the is­land.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has de­scribed Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s crit­i­cism of Cari­com as “reck­less,” as she stressed the im­por­tance of strong re­gion­al ties with oth­er Caribbean coun­tries.

While some crit­ics have ques­tioned the Gov­ern­ment’s sup­port for the Unit­ed States' ac­tions against Venezuela, Jus­tice Frank Seep­er­sad has urged cit­i­zens not to ig­nore the scale of mi­gra­tion from the South Amer­i­can coun­try or the ter­ri­to­r­i­al threats it has made against neigh­bour­ing Guyana.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has again re­butted re­cent crit­i­cisms from An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Prime Min­is­ter Gas­ton Browne, dis­tanc­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go from Cari­com’s “Zone of Peace” pos­ture and ac­cus­ing the re­gion­al bloc of align­ing with Venezuela’s gov­ern­ment.

Fac­ing strong back­lash for crit­i­cis­ing West­moor­ings res­i­dents who called for road re­pairs be­cause the con­stituen­cy vot­ed for the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) in the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tions, Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Ed­ward Alexan­der has sought to soft­en his po­si­tion, say­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar will take care of the com­mu­ni­ty.

The Es­tate Po­lice As­so­ci­a­tion (EPA) is prepar­ing to ap­proach the Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health (OSH) Au­thor­i­ty in the com­ing weeks over what it de­scribes as se­ri­ous health and safe­ty breach­es at di­lap­i­dat­ed se­cu­ri­ty booths at schools across Trinidad, which it says place Na­tion­al Main­te­nance Train­ing and Se­cu­ri­ty Com­pa­ny (NMTS) of­fi­cers at risk.

WEST PALM BEACH, Flori­da (AP)—The US Coast Guard yes­ter­day pur­sued an­oth­er sanc­tioned oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea, as the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion ap­peared to be in­ten­si­fy­ing its tar­get­ing of such ves­sels con­nect­ed to the Venezue­lan gov­ern­ment.