A Ch­agua­nas man has suf­fered a sec­ond le­gal set­back in his chal­lenge against a mag­is­trate’s de­ci­sion to ad­journ his drunk dri­ving tri­al de­spite de­lays in pros­e­cu­tion.

The last time there was a se­ri­ous mar­itime ac­ci­dent in­volv­ing mi­nors at Pi­geon Point Her­itage Park, the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) was re­quired to pay sig­nif­i­cant com­pen­sa­tion for fail­ing to warn vis­i­tors of the dan­gers posed by boats and wa­ter­craft.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has in­ten­si­fied her call for trans­paren­cy from the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com), rais­ing fresh ques­tions about the process that led to the reap­point­ment of Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett.

Po­lit­i­cal con­sul­tant and Di­rec­tor of the Caribbean De­vel­op­ment Re­search Ser­vices (CADRES), Pe­ter Wick­ham, is warn­ing that the es­ca­lat­ing dis­pute be­tween the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) and Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is dam­ag­ing re­gion­al uni­ty and di­vert­ing at­ten­tion from more sub­stan­tive is­sues.

At a time of deep un­cer­tain­ty, it can be dif­fi­cult to keep mov­ing for­ward. For per­sons with dis­abil­i­ties, the chal­lenges posed by so­cial in­equal­i­ty can make that task even hard­er.

Chair­man of the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA), Dr Tim Gopeesingh, has sub­mit­ted a de­tailed re­port out­lin­ing the Au­thor­i­ty’s per­for­mance over the first eight months of the cur­rent Board’s tenure, high­light­ing sweep­ing fi­nan­cial re­forms, strength­ened gov­er­nance, and ex­pand­ed health­care de­liv­ery.

An­i­mal rights ac­tivists are in­ten­si­fy­ing calls for stronger en­force­ment of an­i­mal cru­el­ty laws fol­low­ing a dis­turb­ing in­ci­dent in Freeport that has sparked wide­spread pub­lic out­rage.

Re­lief and emo­tion over­came Kr­ishen­deo Bas­deo on Sat­ur­day night af­ter his wife, Sabi­ta Bas­deo, was freed fol­low­ing months of al­leged cap­tiv­i­ty, abuse and forced labour at the hands of a Pe­nal woman and her teenage son.

Ruthven Ian Atkin­son, the 57-year-old Princes Town man who went miss­ing dur­ing an out­ing to the Bun­see Mud Vol­cano, was found alive near Mon Di­a­blo Beach around 6 pm yes­ter­day, bring­ing an end to an in­tense search ef­fort.

Ea­ger to be re­unit­ed with her two daugh­ters, a 45-year-old Vista­bel­la woman ex­pressed re­lief and grat­i­tude af­ter be­ing re­leased from po­lice cus­tody four days af­ter she con­fessed to fa­tal­ly shoot­ing busi­ness­man Steve Ghany Jr in what she claims was self-de­fence.

Un­der the soft glow of can­dle­light, scores of mourn­ers moved in solemn si­lence through a vil­lage now bound by grief, each flick­er­ing flame ho­n­our­ing the life of sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Saydee Jo­gie—a child de­scribed as a “lit­tle princess” whose light was ex­tin­guished far too soon.

Hun­gar­i­an vot­ers on Sun­day oust­ed long-serv­ing Prime Min­is­ter Vik­tor Or­bán af­ter 16 years in pow­er, re­ject­ing the au­thor­i­tar­i­an poli­cies and glob­al far-right move­ment that he em­bod­ied in favour of a pro-Eu­ro­pean chal­lenger in a bomb­shell elec­tion re­sult with glob­al reper­cus­sions.