It’s been a lit­tle over a month since St Kitts and Nevis na­tion­al Kei­throy Hal­l­i­day took over as head of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) and he’s al­ready mak­ing big plans for the coun­try’s wa­ter sup­pli­er.

Near­ly two years af­ter be­com­ing op­er­a­tional, the Of­fice of the Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tor (OPR) is still not ful­ly equipped to fa­cil­i­tate the ease of do­ing busi­ness.

Al­though his mas­tery lay in crick­et, world record hold­er Bri­an Lara had a broad­er mes­sage for the stu­dents of Na­pari­ma Col­lege—one of ded­i­ca­tion, sac­ri­fice, and am­bi­tion.

Dis­ap­point­ment and frus­tra­tion filled the air at King’s Wharf, San Fer­nan­do, on Thurs­day, as fish­er­men and boat own­ers ar­rived at the long-await­ed fish­ing fa­cil­i­ty—on­ly to find it still un­der con­struc­tion.

Is­raeli Prime Min­is­ter Ben­jamin Ne­tanyahu’s of­fice says the meet­ing of the full Cab­i­net has be­gun on Fri­day evening. The Cab­i­net is ex­pect­ed to ap­prove the agree­ment on the cease­fire, which could start as soon as Sun­day.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing two un­re­lat­ed in­ci­dents of scam­mers us­ing so­cial me­dia to find vic­tims. In the most re­cent in­ci­dent, a 32-year-old Ch­agua­nas man drove to Barataria, on Thurs­day to meet some­one he met on Face­book to buy pow­er wash­ers.

A 36-year-old San Juan man who is sus­pect­ed of “stor­ing” weapons for crim­i­nals was ar­rest­ed af­ter he was found with an AK-47 and am­mu­ni­tion at his home on Thurs­day af­ter­noon.

The Supreme Court on Fri­day unan­i­mous­ly up­held the fed­er­al law ban­ning Tik­Tok be­gin­ning Sun­day un­less it’s sold by its Chi­na-based par­ent com­pa­ny, hold­ing that the risk to na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty posed by its ties to Chi­na over­comes con­cerns about lim­it­ing speech by the app or its 170 mil­lion users in the Unit­ed States.

There is no mil­li­pede in­fes­ta­tion in Trinidad and To­ba­go, ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture, Land and Fish­eries (MALF).

The Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO) says Caribbean coun­tries will have ac­cess to the 20-va­lent pneu­mo­coc­cal con­ju­gate vac­cine (PCV20), which will help re­duce the bur­den of pneu­mo­coc­cal dis­eases, of­fer­ing greater pro­tec­tion for vul­ner­a­ble pop­u­la­tions, in­clud­ing chil­dren and the el­der­ly.

Bar­ba­dos Prime Min­is­ter, Mia Mot­t­ley, has re­ceived one of Suri­name’s high­est na­tion­al awards for her ex­cep­tion­al con­tri­bu­tion to the re­la­tion­ship be­tween the two coun­tries, her lead­er­ship with­in the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) and her com­mit­ment to the re­gion.

Hun­dreds of peo­ple were or­dered to evac­u­ate and part of High­way 1 in North­ern Cal­i­for­nia was closed ear­ly Fri­day af­ter a ma­jor fire erupt­ed at one of the world’s largest bat­tery stor­age plants.