The Caribbean has strength­ened its in­flu­ence in leg­isla­tive draft­ing across the Com­mon­wealth af­ter two re­gion­al le­gal pro­fes­sion­als were elect­ed to se­nior lead­er­ship po­si­tions in the Com­mon­wealth As­so­ci­a­tion of Leg­isla­tive Coun­sel (CALC).

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos, Jul 21, CMC – The Bar­ba­dos gov­ern­ment Tues­day said that the state fu­ner­al of Na­tion­al Hero and for­mer West In­dies crick­et cap­tain, Sir Garfield Sobers, will take place on Ju­ly 29, at the Kens­ing­ton Oval.

The Privy Coun­cil has list­ed an ap­peal by the State in the le­gal pro­ceed­ings in­volv­ing busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve Hadeed.

The Min­istry of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence (MPAAI) is clar­i­fy­ing re­ports sur­round­ing a da­ta cen­tre project.

Stu­dents at Mt D’Or Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School will have greater ac­cess to steel­pan ed­u­ca­tion fol­low­ing the do­na­tion of a set of steel­pans from the Sco­tia­bank Foun­da­tion and Unit­ed Way Trinidad and To­ba­go (UWTT).

Twen­ty six young peo­ple brought the cur­tain down on this year’s Pres­i­dent’s Pan Camp with a per­for­mance at Pres­i­dent’s House on Sat­ur­day, cap­ping six days of mu­sic, men­tor­ship and per­son­al de­vel­op­ment aimed at build­ing con­fi­dence, lead­er­ship and re­silience.

Lester Al­leyne has been named as the Pres­i­dent of the Ro­tary Club of Diego Mar­tin Board for 2026/2027.

New U.K. Prime Min­is­ter Andy Burn­ham gath­ered his Cab­i­net for its first meet­ing on Tues­day and vowed to take a “one-team ap­proach” de­spite purg­ing al­lies of pre­de­ces­sor Keir Starmer from the gov­ern­ment.

Diplo­mats sought Tues­day to sal­vage the col­lapsed in­ter­im deal be­tween Iran and the Unit­ed States even as both coun­tries con­tin­ued to launch at­tacks in a 10th day of re­newed fight­ing.

The Guyana gov­ern­ment says the po­lice are con­duct­ing “ a com­pre­hen­sive in­ves­ti­ga­tion” in­to the cir­cum­stances that led to the MV Bari­ma cap­siz­ing last Sat­ur­day night, re­sult­ing so far in the deaths of 27 peo­ple and the res­cue of 69 oth­ers.

For­mer com­mis­sion­er of po­lice Gary Grif­fith is warn­ing that Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) leg­is­la­tion gives too much unchecked pow­er to the Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty and could be abused by fu­ture gov­ern­ments.

A 27-year-old Sea Lots man is be­ing treat­ed for gun­shot wounds af­ter he al­leged­ly point­ed a pis­tol at po­lice on pa­trol on Mon­day morn­ing.