A three-day Caribbean High-Lev­el Fo­rum on man­ag­ing the en­er­gy tran­si­tion gets un­der­way in Bar­ba­dos on Tues­day.

Pres­i­dent Joe Biden par­doned his son, Hunter, on Sun­day night, spar­ing the younger Biden a pos­si­ble prison sen­tence for fed­er­al felony gun and tax con­vic­tions and re­vers­ing his past promis­es not to use the ex­tra­or­di­nary pow­ers of the pres­i­den­cy for the ben­e­fit of his fam­i­ly.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says “good rid­dance” to Laven­tille West MP Fitzger­ald Hinds fol­low­ing the an­nounce­ment that he will be ex­it­ing elec­toral pol­i­tics last week.

The North­west Doc­tors As­so­ci­a­tion (NW­DA) along with pub­lic sec­tor doc­tors from oth­er re­gions are pe­ti­tion­ing for bet­ter salaries and work­ing con­di­tions.

While the ma­jor­i­ty of Op­po­si­tion MPs re­main tight-lipped about their plans for the ex­tra mon­ey they are set to re­ceive in their month­ly salaries, three of them have pledged to fun­nel those funds in­to their con­stituen­cies.

Oil­field Work­ers Trade Union pres­i­dent gen­er­al An­cel Ro­get has tak­en sup­port­ers of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment to task for what he called their hypocrisy.

The 34th an­nu­al meet­ing of the Copy­right Mu­sic Or­gan­i­sa­tion of T&T (COTT) had to be post­poned on Thurs­day due to an al­leged dis­tur­bance from mem­bers of a ri­val or­gan­i­sa­tion.

The PNM’s Laven­tille West con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive is not sup­port­ing the two nom­i­nees who will go be­fore the par­ty’s screen­ing com­mit­tee to­day, af­ter the ex­it of in­cum­bent Fitzger­ald Hinds.

For­mer Na­pari­ma Col­lege prin­ci­pal Dr Michael Dowlath, who was cho­sen by the UNC to con­test the San Fer­nan­do West seat, is thank­ing the par­ty’s po­lit­i­cal leader for see­ing the val­ue in his can­di­da­cy.

The Unit­ed King­dom-based Privy Coun­cil will to­day be­gin to hear sub­mis­sions in the fi­nal ap­peal over a law­suit brought by for­mer chief mag­is­trate Mar­cia Ay­ers-Cae­sar over her short-lived ju­di­cial ap­point­ment.

The State has been or­dered to pay al­most $125,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a land­scap­er, who was in­jured af­ter a boat op­er­at­ed by of­fi­cials of the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture, Land and Fish­eries crashed in­to his fish­ing ves­sel in the Ca­roni Swamp. 

Crim­i­nals can choose to leave the path of law­less­ness, said Fa­ther Trevor Nathas­ingh. He was at the time speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia on Sun­day when the St Pe­ter’s RC Church at Or­ange Val­ley, Cou­va cel­e­brat­ed its 67th an­niver­sary.