Five Caribbean lead­ers in sci­ence, civic work, en­tre­pre­neur­ship and the arts have been named as the 2026 re­cip­i­ents of the An­tho­ny N Sab­ga Caribbean Ex­cel­lence Awards.

A day be­fore the fu­ner­al of mur­dered CNC3 free­lance cam­er­a­woman Kellyann Lemessy, a man post­ing un­der the name of Kevin Ran­di­al is­sued a mes­sage say­ing: “Kel­ly Ann Lemessey, I want to hear you open your mouth about me now.”

The Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) has con­firmed it was not asked to take part in the gov­ern­ment-led re­view of mu­nic­i­pal cor­po­ra­tion bound­aries.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion says it is aware of re­ports of a rat in­fes­ta­tion at the El So­cor­ro South Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School and is en­gag­ing with staff and the Na­tion­al Main­te­nance Train­ing and Se­cu­ri­ty Com­pa­ny Ltd (MTS) per­son­nel to as­sess the sit­u­a­tion.

First came route cuts; now come fleet cuts. As Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) con­tin­ues to look for ways to re­duce costs, the air­line will sell two of the five ATR air­craft it owns by the end of this year.

A prison of­fi­cer has suf­fered a de­feat in his fi­nal ap­peal over be­ing al­leged­ly by­passed for pro­mo­tion by the Pub­lic Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PSC).

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion says it is aware of re­ports of a rat in­fes­ta­tion at El So­cor­ro South Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School and is en­gag­ing staff and the Na­tion­al Main­te­nance Train­ing and Se­cu­ri­ty Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed to as­sess the sit­u­a­tion.

Stand­ing in a cor­ner on the tar­mac of Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, obliv­i­ous to the se­cu­ri­ty and me­dia gath­ered there, an emo­tion­al Karen and Ryan Pin­heiro watched as WM809 touched down just af­ter mid­day on Sun­day.

The pres­sure is on for medi­um and large steel­bands as they gear up for the Panora­ma Fi­nals for Car­ni­val 2026.

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Car­la Kan­ga­loo ad­min­is­tered the oaths. Chief Jus­tice Mr Jus­tice Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh at­tend­ed.

A 71-year-old San Fer­nan­do man was at­tacked in his home by Span­ish-speak­ing ban­dits who robbed him of his car.

PANA­MA CITY -Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo has pushed back against crit­i­cism of Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny chair­man Ger­ald Ramdeen, re­ject­ing claims he is act­ing uni­lat­er­al­ly as the Gov­ern­ment moves to raise nat­ur­al gas prices and dis­man­tle sub­si­dies.