For the sec­ond time in as many weeks, ban­dits have used an ad­ver­tise­ment on Face­book to lure their vic­tims in­to a rob­bery.

An el­e­vat­ed stage may be used for the first time in years for Ch­agua­nas Car­ni­val 2025. This was an­nounced by Rene Bai­ley, the chair­man of the Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Car­ni­val Com­mit­tee.

The Bar­ba­dos gov­ern­ment says it will not al­low any com­mu­ni­ty on the is­land to be held un­der siege un­der any cir­cum­stances.

They came from Haiti, Venezuela and around the world, pulling small rolling suit­cas­es crammed with cloth­ing and stuffed an­i­mals to oc­cu­py their chil­dren. They clutched cell­phones show­ing that af­ter months of wait­ing they had ap­point­ments — fi­nal­ly — to legal­ly en­ter the Unit­ed States.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump signed an ex­ec­u­tive or­der Mon­day say­ing the Unit­ed States would des­ig­nate drug car­tels as for­eign ter­ror­ist or­ga­ni­za­tions in a move that could push a mil­i­ta­rized agen­da for the bor­der and Latin Amer­i­ca.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump on Mon­day par­doned, com­mut­ed the prison sen­tences or vowed to dis­miss the cas­es of all of the 1,500-plus peo­ple charged with crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capi­tol ri­ot, in­clud­ing peo­ple con­vict­ed of as­sault­ing po­lice of­fi­cers, us­ing his clemen­cy pow­ers on his first day back in of­fice to un­do the mas­sive pros­e­cu­tion of the un­prece­dent­ed as­sault on the seat of Amer­i­can democ­ra­cy.

Hours af­ter Unit­ed States Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s in­au­gu­ra­tion at the Capi­tol in Wash­ing­ton yes­ter­day, Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar wast­ed no time in con­demn­ing the pre­vi­ous De­mo­c­ra­t­ic ad­min­is­tra­tion un­der Joe Biden, call­ing it a “dis­as­ter” for the Amer­i­can peo­ple and the world.

WASH­ING­TON (AP)—Don­ald Trump was sworn in as the 47th pres­i­dent yes­ter­day, re­turn­ing to pow­er with a promise to end the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca’s de­cline and to “com­plete­ly and to­tal­ly re­verse” the ac­tions of the man who drove him from of­fice four years ago.

When pro­fes­sion­al steel­pan play­er Leslie Jor­dano and his band re­ceived an in­vi­ta­tion to per­form at a high-pro­file event in Oc­to­ber 1996, he had no idea it would lead to a mem­o­rable con­nec­tion with bil­lion­aire busi­ness­man Don­ald Trump.

A man de­scribed by po­lice as a “pri­or­i­ty of­fend­er” and un­der­world fig­ure has been de­tained at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al and Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre (ECRC) in San­ta Rosa, as po­lice from var­i­ous units be­gin a se­ries of in­quiries in­to his pur­port­ed ac­tiv­i­ties dur­ing the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE).

The Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) has ac­cept­ed the in­vi­ta­tion by the Gov­ern­ment to send elec­tion ob­servers to this coun­try for the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion.