Ne­go­ti­a­tions aimed at end­ing Rus­sia’s in­va­sion of Ukraine are yield­ing ap­par­ent signs of progress, but ma­jor chal­lenges re­main on the path to a fi­nal set­tle­ment, a se­nior Krem­lin of­fi­cial said Mon­day.

Judges at the In­ter­na­tion­al Crim­i­nal Court ruled on Mon­day that for­mer Philip­pine Pres­i­dent Ro­dri­go Duterte is fit to stand tri­al, af­ter post­pon­ing an ear­li­er hear­ing over con­cerns about the oc­to­ge­nar­i­an’s health.

While the gov­ern­ment has yet to an­nounce who will lead Trinidad and To­ba­go’s del­e­ga­tion to next month’s 50th Reg­u­lar Meet­ing of Cari­com heads in St Kitts and Nevis, for­mer for­eign af­fairs min­is­ter Dr. Amery Browne be­lieves Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is like­ly to at­tend.

As he be­gins his tenure as Cari­com chair through to June 30, St Kitts and Nevis Prime Min­is­ter Dr Ter­rance Drew has ac­knowl­edged that he as­sumes the role at a mo­ment of acute pres­sure, shaped by geopo­lit­i­cal un­cer­tain­ty and grow­ing ques­tions about the bloc’s uni­ty and rel­e­vance.

The Mor­vant Com­mu­ni­ty Swim­ming Pool was over­sub­scribed af­ter its launch in 2021 and pro­duced swim­mers who sur­passed each stage of the Learn To Swim pro­gramme.

Gov­ern­ment may con­sid­er amend­ments from sen­a­tors to the con­tro­ver­sial Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSOS) Bill when Sen­ate de­bate re­sumes to­mor­row, but no con­sid­er­a­tion will be giv­en to ex­tend­ing the State of Emer­gency.

Near­ly four years af­ter the Paria div­ing tragedy that claimed the life of Rishi Na­gas­sar, his wid­ow says the Gov­ern­ment’s $1 mil­lion ex gra­tia pay­ment has brought some fi­nan­cial re­lief but has nei­ther eased her grief nor end­ed her pur­suit of jus­tice.

Par­ty-go­ers at­tend­ing yes­ter­day’s Soa­ka Till Sun­rise at O2 Park in Ch­aguara­mas were left shocked—not by the event it­self, but by the sud­den death of one pa­tron.

Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen is stand­ing firm on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s as­ser­tion that the $2.1 bil­lion al­lo­ca­tion to re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions is more than suf­fi­cient, re­veal­ing that mul­ti­ple po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to mis­man­age­ment are on­go­ing.

The man­u­fac­tur­ing sec­tor must ab­sorb high­er pro­duc­tion costs re­sult­ing from the planned in­crease in nat­ur­al gas prices for Light In­dus­tri­al Con­sumers (LIC), rather than pass­ing them on to con­sumers, Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo said.

Res­i­dents of the Las Al­turas Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment in Mor­vant are claim­ing that their com­mu­ni­ty is be­ing ne­glect­ed.

An el­der­ly woman was found dead in her bed­room in what po­lice sus­pect may have been a home in­va­sion in Up­per Bar­rack­pore yes­ter­day morn­ing. In­ves­ti­ga­tors are await­ing an au­top­sy to de­ter­mine how 62-year-old Mer­ril Sabessar died, but her Nis­san Ti­i­da was re­port­ed miss­ing.