There is a po­lit­i­cal toss-up in the Tabaquite con­stituen­cy, with the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ex­ec­u­tive re­ject­ing its prospec­tive can­di­date, Anil Ramjit, at the last minute, and the can­di­da­cy of in­cum­bent MP Ani­ta Haynes-Al­leyne, a so-called UNC dis­si­dent, up in the air as screen­ing is set for to­day.

A for­mer coun­cil­lor with the PNM, an ex-UNC Youth Arm mem­ber, and a for­mer co­or­di­na­tor with the THA are all among the sev­en can­di­dates cho­sen by the Pa­tri­ot­ic Front to con­test seats in the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion.

One of the five so-called “dis­si­dents” with­in the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) has not ruled out the pos­si­bil­i­ty of join­ing an­oth­er po­lit­i­cal par­ty if he is not se­lect­ed to rep­re­sent his con­stituen­cy.

As Cari­com Heads of Gov­ern­ment meet to­day, Pro­fes­sor of In­ter­na­tion­al Re­la­tions Andy Knight urges lead­ers to con­sid­er strength­en­ing part­ner­ships with Cana­da and Chi­na to di­ver­si­fy trade away from the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca (US).

Cari­com’s 48th Heads of Gov­ern­ment con­fer­ence which Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Dr Amery Browne are at­tend­ing in Bar­ba­dos from to­day, will see Unit­ed Na­tions Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al An­tónio Guter­res and Eu­ro­pean Com­mis­sion pres­i­dent Ur­su­la von der Leyen al­so in at­ten­dance.

The Min­istry of Health (MOH) says it has in­ten­si­fied its sur­veil­lance and test­ing ef­forts in re­sponse to grow­ing glob­al con­cerns over Avian in­fluen­za (bird flu) fol­low­ing rec­om­men­da­tions from the World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (WHO).

A con­tract­ing com­pa­ny has lost its le­gal bat­tle with the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) over out­stand­ing com­pen­sa­tion for two con­tracts for wa­ter treat­ment plants that were ter­mi­nat­ed al­most two decades ago.

A 42-year-old woman has re­ject­ed an of­fer of $75,000 in com­pen­sa­tion for a botched den­tal pro­ce­dure that left her in emo­tion­al and phys­i­cal pain and with a ten-inch scar on her ab­domen.

Po­lice of­fi­cers from the Ch­agua­nas Po­lice Sta­tion ar­rest­ed Joshua Gar­raway, the sec­ond pa­tient who es­caped from the Foren­sic Ward at the St Ann’s Psy­chi­atric Hos­pi­tal on Feb­ru­ary 12.

Rel­a­tives of mur­dered labour­er Mar­vin Phillip want a po­lice post to be set up in Gon­za­les, Bel­mont as they be­lieve this could help to re­duce the num­ber of gang-re­lat­ed killings by war­ring fac­tions.

A 13-year-old Form One stu­dent of Tran­quil­li­ty Gov­ern­ment Sec­ondary School was robbed of an iPhone 12 on the com­pound on Mon­day by three masked in­di­vid­u­als wear­ing the school’s uni­form.

A Princes Town fam­i­ly is in grief af­ter their 29-year-old loved one was stabbed to death by an­oth­er rel­a­tive dur­ing a row yes­ter­day.