A 42-year-old man was robbed of two gold chains val­ued at an es­ti­mat­ed $70,000 by ban­dits at the front door of his Mor­vant home ear­ly on Mon­day morn­ing.

Li­onel Mes­si broke the World Cup scor­ing record with his 17th goal and then added an 18th in stop­page time in de­fend­ing cham­pi­on Ar­genti­na’s 2-0 win over Aus­tria on Mon­day.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) is seek­ing a bud­get al­lo­ca­tion of $4.12 bil­lion for fis­cal 2027, with Sec­re­tary of Fi­nance, Trade and the Econ­o­my Petal-Ann Roberts say­ing the fund­ing will sup­port a shift to­wards re­sults-based gov­er­nance and long-term eco­nom­ic re­silience.

Con­firmed cas­es in the Ebo­la out­break in east­ern Con­go have reached 1,003, in­clud­ing 254 deaths, of­fi­cials said, as trac­ing those who had been in con­tact with pa­tients re­mains a ma­jor chal­lenge.

A 40-year-old man who was re­cent­ly re­leased from prison was killed in a dri­ve-by shoot­ing in St Joseph on Sun­day af­ter­noon.

The Mi­a­mi-based Unit­ed States South­ern Com­mand (SOUTH­COM) said that two al­leged male “nar­co-ter­ror­ists” were killed in a “lethal ki­net­ic strike” on a ves­sel op­er­at­ed by “Des­ig­nat­ed Ter­ror­ist Or­ga­ni­za­tions” in the Caribbean Sea.

U.S. Vice Pres­i­dent JD Vance on Mon­day said his lengthy talks with se­nior Iran­ian of­fi­cials in Switzer­land cre­at­ed a “good foun­da­tion for a suc­cess­ful fi­nal deal” as they ne­go­ti­ate bring­ing a per­ma­nent end to the war that the U.S. and Is­rael be­gan in late Feb­ru­ary.

British Prime Min­is­ter Keir Starmer an­nounced Mon­day that he will re­sign, forced out by his own par­ty af­ter mis­steps and mis­takes soured vot­ers’ good­will for a prime min­is­ter who won a land­slide elec­tion vic­to­ry two years ago on a promise of steady lead­er­ship and eco­nom­ic growth.

June 19 was nev­er in­tend­ed to be just an­oth­er an­nu­al march, ac­cord­ing to Alyssa Phillip, who said it “should and must al­ways be re­gard­ed as a call to ac­tion.”

We con­tin­ue our in­ter­view with Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro, who cel­e­brat­ed his first year in of­fice last week. Dur­ing a sit-down in­ter­view at the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing, he told Guardian Me­dia that he is not po­lit­i­cal­ly aligned and that, in ad­di­tion to crime-fight­ing, his main fo­cus is in­creas­ing man­pow­er with­in the Po­lice Ser­vice.

While two se­cu­ri­ty an­a­lysts have en­dorsed the con­tin­ued tenure of Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro as he em­barks on his sec­ond year in of­fice, they in­sist that sus­tain­abil­i­ty will be key to main­tain­ing the gains achieved dur­ing his first year.

The Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) lead­er­ship is ex­pect­ed to ex­am­ine in­ter­nal­ly a let­ter from San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning call­ing for ac­tion on con­cerns raised by mem­bers of the con­stituen­cy, in­clud­ing an al­leged con­flict of in­ter­est in­volv­ing a PNM ex­ec­u­tive mem­ber who al­so heads the con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive.