For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers is adamant that this coun­try played no role in the Unit­ed States mil­i­tary op­er­a­tion to cap­ture for­mer Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nico­las Maduro.

In­ter­na­tion­al law ex­perts are ques­tion­ing the le­gal ad­vice and its in­ter­pre­ta­tion that led At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie to con­clude that the re­cent US strikes on al­leged drug boats in the Caribbean did not vi­o­late in­ter­na­tion­al law.

There is still no of­fi­cial con­fir­ma­tion on whether the Prime Min­is­ter will at­tend next month’s Cari­com Heads of Gov­ern­ment meet­ing in St Kitts and Nevis.

The Of­fice of the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) is mov­ing to fi­nalise the process for the pay­ment of salary in­creas­es to mem­bers of the Teach­ing Ser­vice, af­ter com­plet­ing a re­quest for ad­di­tion­al in­for­ma­tion from Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo by the end of the month.

The Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) is promis­ing re­tirees that the union is near­ing fi­nal­i­sa­tion of their ten per cent agree­ment.

There has been no ob­jec­tion so far to a move to wind up the News­day news­pa­per af­ter 32 years of op­er­a­tion. 

Colour, flair and pas­sion were thrown in­to the mu­si­cal pot yes­ter­day, as hun­dreds of young steel­pan play­ers trans­formed Skin­ner Park, San Fer­nan­do, in­to a steel­pan the­atre, with St Mar­garet’s Boys’ An­gli­can Pri­ma­ry School cap­tur­ing yet an­oth­er Na­tion­al Schools Panora­ma ti­tle.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has moved to clar­i­fy its po­si­tion on stu­dent hair­styles af­ter an im­age, al­leged­ly from a sec­ondary school, cir­cu­lat­ed wide­ly on so­cial me­dia out­lin­ing strict groom­ing rules and show­ing ex­am­ples of hair­styles de­scribed as “not ac­cept­ed”.

Mount­ing con­cerns over garbage pil­ing up in car parks serv­ing 21 apart­ment build­ings in Mal­oney have trig­gered ur­gent calls for ac­tion from res­i­dents.

Class­es con­tin­ued as nor­mal on Mon­day at Rio Claro East Sec­ondary School amid as­sur­ances from the Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty that ad­di­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures are in place.

Re­gion­al Span­ish of­fi­cials said Mon­day that at least 40 peo­ple are con­firmed dead in a high-speed rail col­li­sion the pre­vi­ous night in the coun­try’s south when the tail end of a train jumped the track, caus­ing an­oth­er train speed­ing past in the op­po­site di­rec­tion to de­rail.

The Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) is promis­ing re­tirees that the union is near­ing fi­nal­i­sa­tion of their “10 per­cent” agree­ment.