Jen­nifer Bap­tiste-Primus, Robert Le Hunte and Mar­i­ano Browne, far from rep­re­sent­ing any sig­nif­i­cant fac­tion of the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), do not re­flect the broad­er uni­ty with­in the par­ty and their crit­i­cisms are iso­lat­ed and lack the col­lec­tive weight nec­es­sary to sug­gest any frac­ture with­in the par­ty, says the PNM Women's League.

A rel­a­tive of 23-year-old co­conut ven­dor Ja­son Mo­hammed, who was gunned down in Bar­rack­pore on Sun­day night, is ap­peal­ing to young peo­ple to stay away from bad com­pa­ny.

A large white and red flo­ral trib­ute and a sin­gle white rose were placed on the desk where D’Abadie/O’Meara MP Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian sat in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives yes­ter­day.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) MPs have ex­pressed un­wa­ver­ing sup­port for Stu­art Young to suc­ceed Dr Kei­th Row­ley as prime min­is­ter once he steps down.

De­spite the ap­proved ex­ten­sion for the State of Emer­gency by an­oth­er three months, Op­po­si­tion MPs are voic­ing con­cerns about its ef­fec­tive­ness, what they con­sid­er to be a lack of ac­count­abil­i­ty, and the Gov­ern­ment’s over­all han­dling of the sit­u­a­tion.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) Diego Mar­tin West con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive has not yet re­ceived any of­fi­cial nom­i­na­tions from the par­ty mem­ber­ship for the seat. How­ev­er, con­stituents are anx­ious to know who are the top con­tenders hop­ing to rep­re­sent their in­ter­ests.

Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds has as­sured that both the Car­rera Is­land Con­vict Prison and the Re­mand Prison in Gold­en Grove are suit­able for oc­cu­pa­tion. How­ev­er, he said some as­pects of the pris­ons, which have been iden­ti­fied for re­pair and re­fur­bish­ment are be­ing ad­dressed prompt­ly.

Open­ing the NTA’s San Fer­nan­do West Of­fice at Leroy Cal­liste Street, San Fer­nan­do, yes­ter­day, along with can­di­date for the area Dr Kevin Sar­ran, the par­ty’s po­lit­i­cal leader Gary Grif­fith as­sured he will not en­gage in gut­ter pol­i­tics as he wished prime min­is­ter-des­ig­nate Stu­art Young well.

For­mer PNM mem­ber and MP Karen Nunez-Tesheira is not con­vinced that all is well with­in the walls of the par­ty.

At least six maxi-taxis and mi­ni-bus­es were seized by po­lice as part of en­quiries in­to a car theft ring in Ari­ma yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

A re­tired fire of­fi­cer has been grant­ed $750,000 bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court charged with mar­i­jua­na traf­fick­ing.

A se­nior mag­is­trate has ques­tioned why the po­lice chose to charge a man from Bel­mont, ac­cused of pos­ses­sion of high-pow­er am­mu­ni­tion, un­der reg­u­la­tions for the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency as op­posed to tra­di­tion­al leg­is­la­tion that car­ries a high­er penal­ty.