Tai­wan is pro­vid­ing sev­en mil­lion dol­lars (One EC dol­lar=US$0.37 cents) to St. Lu­cia to ad­dress var­i­ous so­cial and de­vel­op­men­tal needs in com­mu­ni­ties through­out the is­land.

Min­is­ter of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices, Van­dana Mo­hit, says she worked in­for­mal­ly over the long-week­end with a team from the Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NIBTT) to re­duce the back­log of queries pend­ing in­for­ma­tion for the pro­cess­ing of so­cial wel­fare grants, in­clud­ing the se­nior cit­i­zens’ pen­sion.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les wants more in­for­ma­tion about what the pro­posed Stand Your Ground leg­is­la­tion will look like, stress­ing the crit­i­cal need for pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion be­fore the gov­ern­ment pro­ceeds.

Op­po­si­tion PNM mem­bers are stand­ing unit­ed against the UNC gov­ern­ment’s cam­paign promise to re­move the de­mer­it point sys­tem. Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les said any amend­ments to the law must be done with con­sul­ta­tion.

The Ed­u­ca­tion Com­mit­tee of the Na­tion­al Mus­lim Women’s Or­gan­i­sa­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NM­WOTT) host­ed a the­atri­cal pro­duc­tion ti­tled “A Good Son” on May 8 at the South­ern Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (SAPA).

The New York Knicks fired coach Tom Thi­bodeau on Tues­day just days af­ter their first trip to the East­ern Con­fer­ence fi­nals in 25 years, a per­son with knowl­edge of the de­ci­sion told The As­so­ci­at­ed Press.

The Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO) is urg­ing coun­tries to re­view con­tin­gency plans and ac­ti­vate pre­ven­tive mea­sures to pre­pare health sys­tems for po­ten­tial hur­ri­canes, storms, floods, and oth­er ex­treme weath­er events dur­ing the 2025 At­lantic Hur­ri­cane sea­son that ends on No­vem­ber 30.

The charred re­mains of a hu­man body were dis­cov­ered ear­ly Tues­day morn­ing off Buen In­ten­to Road in Princes Town.

Fol­low­ing Mon­day’s an­nounce­ment that Pen­ne­lope Beck­les will run un­op­posed for po­lit­i­cal leader of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), for­mer PNM mem­ber Karen Nunez-Tesheira has warned she faces sig­nif­i­cant in­ter­nal fric­tion and in­flat­ed egos with­in the par­ty.

A card game end­ed in mur­der in Ch­agua­nas last night, bring­ing the mur­der toll to 163 for the year, thus far.

One month in­to the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) gov­ern­ment’s term, po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tist Dr In­di­ra Ram­per­sad and for­mer PNM fi­nance min­is­ter Karen Nunez-Tesheira have praised Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar for her ‘no-non­sense’ lead­er­ship style in her sec­ond stint in of­fice.

A Russ­ian rock­et at­tack tar­get­ed the north­east­ern Ukrain­ian city of Sumy on Tues­day, killing at least three peo­ple and wound­ing 25, of­fi­cials said.