A po­lice of­fi­cer was among two peo­ple stabbed by an in­tox­i­cat­ed pen­sion­er on Sat­ur­day night.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has de­scribed the van­dal­ism of crit­i­cal wells in To­ba­go as bor­der­ing on do­mes­tic ter­ror­ism.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has dis­missed claims by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar that the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment ad­min­is­tra­tion failed to sup­port the Spir­i­tu­al/Shouter Bap­tist com­mu­ni­ty, de­clar­ing that “talk is cheap”.

Jerusalem’s ma­jor holy sites are shut­tered, and fam­i­lies are de­ject­ed and ex­haust­ed ahead of Passover and East­er as the Iran war en­ters its fifth week. The mood stands in stark con­trast to a usu­al spring, when longer days her­ald a pe­ri­od of fam­i­ly gath­er­ings and an in­flux of tourists for the ma­jor Jew­ish and Chris­t­ian hol­i­days.

Pope Leo XIV on Sun­day re­ject­ed claims that God jus­ti­fies war and prayed es­pe­cial­ly for Chris­tians in the Mid­dle East dur­ing a Palm Sun­day Mass be­fore tens of thou­sands of peo­ple in St. Pe­ter’s Square.

A 51-year-old man was robbed at gun­point while at a hard­ware store in Gas­par­il­lo on Fri­day af­ter­noon.

Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) is seek­ing a fi­nan­cial bailout from the Gov­ern­ment to counter the ris­ing cost of fu­el as a re­sult of the US/Is­rael war against Iran and its im­pact on the car­ri­er’s op­er­a­tional costs.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les trad­ed sharp ac­cu­sa­tions over the use of po­lice in schools, fol­low­ing a pri­vate mo­tion in the Low­er House on Fri­day.

Mem­bers of the Spir­i­tu­al Shouter Bap­tist faith are wel­com­ing the an­nounce­ment by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar that her Gov­ern­ment plans to con­struct a sec­ondary school for the com­mu­ni­ty, re­viv­ing a long-stand­ing de­mand from with­in the faith for equal ac­cess to de­nom­i­na­tion­al ed­u­ca­tion.

Near­ly a year af­ter it was con­demned as a “free for all” and tar­get­ed for re­form, the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route pass sys­tem has been re­set, but of­fi­cial fig­ures show dis­tri­b­u­tion con­tin­ued un­changed through the tran­si­tion, rais­ing ques­tions about whether the sys­tem was ever fun­da­men­tal­ly over­hauled.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has hint­ed at a grand open­ing of the spank­ing new ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in time for To­ba­go Car­ni­val.

Stu­dents of the Fac­ul­ty of Law at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies are push­ing back against a pro­posed re­lo­ca­tion to the Debe South Cam­pus, call­ing for an ur­gent meet­ing with key stake­hold­ers, in­clud­ing Land and Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein, Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion and Skills Train­ing Min­is­ter Pro­fes­sor Prakash Per­sad, the UWI prin­ci­pal, and of­fi­cials at the Law Fac­ul­ty.