The pres­i­dent of the Route 2 Maxi Taxi As­so­ci­a­tion, Bren­ton Knights, has called for height­ened se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures fol­low­ing re­ports of a rob­bery on a red band maxi taxi along the Beetham Gar­dens on Tues­day morn­ing. Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, all pas­sen­gers and the dri­ver were robbed, rais­ing con­cerns about safe­ty.

The PNM Women’s League has con­demned com­ments made by Op­po­si­tion Leader, Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

A 14-year-old boy and two 16-year-olds are among four peo­ple ar­rest­ed in re­la­tion to sus­pect­ed gang af­fil­i­a­tion in San Juan.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has clar­i­fied that the re­cent funds sent to the All To­ba­go Fish­er Folk As­so­ci­a­tion rep­re­sent an­oth­er in­stall­ment of monies owed for work done dur­ing the Feb­ru­ary 7th oil spill cleanup. 

For the sec­ond time in as many weeks, ban­dits have used an ad­ver­tise­ment on Face­book to lure their vic­tims in­to a rob­bery.

An el­e­vat­ed stage may be used for the first time in years for Ch­agua­nas Car­ni­val 2025. This was an­nounced by Rene Bai­ley, the chair­man of the Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Car­ni­val Com­mit­tee.

The Bar­ba­dos gov­ern­ment says it will not al­low any com­mu­ni­ty on the is­land to be held un­der siege un­der any cir­cum­stances.

They came from Haiti, Venezuela and around the world, pulling small rolling suit­cas­es crammed with cloth­ing and stuffed an­i­mals to oc­cu­py their chil­dren. They clutched cell­phones show­ing that af­ter months of wait­ing they had ap­point­ments — fi­nal­ly — to legal­ly en­ter the Unit­ed States.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump signed an ex­ec­u­tive or­der Mon­day say­ing the Unit­ed States would des­ig­nate drug car­tels as for­eign ter­ror­ist or­ga­ni­za­tions in a move that could push a mil­i­ta­rized agen­da for the bor­der and Latin Amer­i­ca.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump on Mon­day par­doned, com­mut­ed the prison sen­tences or vowed to dis­miss the cas­es of all of the 1,500-plus peo­ple charged with crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capi­tol ri­ot, in­clud­ing peo­ple con­vict­ed of as­sault­ing po­lice of­fi­cers, us­ing his clemen­cy pow­ers on his first day back in of­fice to un­do the mas­sive pros­e­cu­tion of the un­prece­dent­ed as­sault on the seat of Amer­i­can democ­ra­cy.

Hours af­ter Unit­ed States Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s in­au­gu­ra­tion at the Capi­tol in Wash­ing­ton yes­ter­day, Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar wast­ed no time in con­demn­ing the pre­vi­ous De­mo­c­ra­t­ic ad­min­is­tra­tion un­der Joe Biden, call­ing it a “dis­as­ter” for the Amer­i­can peo­ple and the world.