Leader of Gov­ern­ment Busi­ness Camille Robin­son-Reg­is is deny­ing there is any fric­tion or an­i­mos­i­ty with­in the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), de­spite the fact that al­most half of its Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment did not sup­port Stu­art Young to suc­ceed Dr Kei­th Row­ley as Prime Min­is­ter.

The peo­ple of Ari­ma are dis­ap­point­ed that MP Pen­ne­lope Beck­les was over­looked for the prime min­is­ter­ship of the coun­try in favour of Stu­art Young.

In­com­ing prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young has rub­bished UNC leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s ac­cu­sa­tions about him, say­ing he will not be dis­tract­ed.

In the Port-of-Spain North/St Ann’s West con­stituen­cy yes­ter­day, there was a wave of re­ac­tions to the news that the area’s Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment, Stu­art Young, is the prime min­is­ter in wait­ing.

Min­is­ter of Trade and In­dus­try, Paula Gopee-Scoon, has con­firmed that the State did not bear the ex­pense of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) two-day par­lia­men­tary re­treat in To­ba­go. 

While the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Women’s League and oth­er PN­Mites are sup­port­ing the de­ci­sion of Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley for En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young to suc­ceed him, for­mer Min­is­ter Robert Le Hunte and se­nior PN­Mite Ray Braith­waite be­lieve the par­ty and Gen­er­al Coun­cil should have a say in the is­sue.

Fol­low­ing a sec­ond meet­ing with the Chief Jus­tice and mem­bers of the Ju­di­cia­ry over safe­ty con­cerns ex­pressed by state pros­e­cu­tors, Min­is­ter Kei­th Scot­land con­firmed that dis­cus­sions with DPP Roger Gas­pard will next take place. 

Mu­si­cian and so­cial jus­tice ac­tivist Lou Lyons has de­mand­ed a pub­lic apol­o­gy from the South Caribbean Con­fer­ence of Sev­enth-Day Ad­ven­tist af­ter an im­age of him was shared in con­nec­tion with the mur­der of spe­cial pros­e­cu­tor Ran­dall Hec­tor.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is claim­ing that the gun amnesty of­fered dur­ing the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) is not valid, as a gun amnesty can­not be im­ple­ment­ed by reg­u­la­tion on­ly, and the Gov­ern­ment must come to Par­lia­ment to get a spe­cial ma­jor­i­ty vote on this.

While he is pleased with a no­tice­able slow­down in the mur­der rate for 2025, Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (DCP) in charge of Op­er­a­tions Ju­nior Ben­jamin says more work is un­der­way in achiev­ing crime-fight­ing goals, par­tic­u­lar­ly as the State of Emer­gency (SoE) re­mains in ef­fect. 

Days af­ter she was beat­en by a rel­a­tive, an el­der­ly woman has suc­cumbed to her in­juries at hos­pi­tal.

A 39-year-old man held in con­nec­tion with the be­head­ing of a dog re­mained in po­lice cus­tody up to last evening.