En­er­gy Cham­ber chair­man Jerome Dook­ie is call­ing for “all bar­ri­ers” to be re­moved to en­sure the Cari­com Sin­gle Mar­ket and Econ­o­my (CSME) is tru­ly achieved.

It’s been two months since I ar­rived in Chi­na, and I still haven’t found my wal­let—a feel­ing I’ve grown to en­joy.

Av­o­cat Vedic Pri­ma­ry School is set to mark a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone on No­vem­ber 1, cel­e­brat­ing its 70th an­niver­sary.

Ten armed men tied up a Chase Vil­lage, Ch­agua­nas woman and her chil­dren on Sat­ur­day night and robbed them of $80,000 in cash and oth­er items.

San­gre Grande po­lice in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the San­gre Grande Sta­tion Coun­cil held their first Di­vali Cel­e­bra­tion on Sat­ur­day night, which was at­tend­ed by hun­dreds.

The break­down of fam­i­ly life has led to moral de­cay and un­prece­dent­ed lev­els of crime and vi­o­lence, this point was un­der­scored by Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar when she de­liv­ered the fea­ture ad­dress at Di­vali Na­gar cel­e­bra­tions on Sat­ur­day night.

The Di­rec­tor of the West­ern Hemi­sphere De­part­ment (WHD) of the In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF), Ro­dri­go Valdes, says coun­tries in the Caribbean lose 2.5 per cent of gross do­mes­tic prod­uct (GDP) in cap­i­tal an­nu­al­ly on av­er­age.

At a cam­paign ral­ly in April, Pres­i­dent Joe Biden told a Wis­con­sin crowd about his lat­est “life-chang­ing” plan for stu­dent loan can­cel­la­tion, promis­ing fi­nan­cial re­lief for more than 30 mil­lion Amer­i­cans.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les said by the next gen­er­al elec­tion, 85 per cent of the pop­u­la­tion will be get­ting a 24/7 wa­ter sup­ply. 

Fer­die Fer­reira, a found­ing mem­ber of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), says there is a lev­el of “dis­sat­is­fac­tion, dis­com­fort and dis­qui­et” among par­ty mem­bers and of­fi­cers over Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s re­cent hint that En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young is his pos­si­ble re­place­ment.

This month, in the space of a week, two po­lice of­fi­cers were mur­dered in sep­a­rate, un­re­lat­ed in­ci­dents while work­ing part-time as se­cu­ri­ty guards.

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Wade Mark has shot down Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s claim that the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) is un­pa­tri­ot­ic.