Prime Min­is­ter of An­tigua and Bar­bu­da, Gas­ton Browne, is­sued a state­ment to­day re­spond­ing to re­marks by Trinidad and To­ba­go Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar con­cern­ing CARI­COM and in­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions. Prime Min­is­ter Browne said An­tigua and Bar­bu­da re­spects the sov­er­eign right of CARI­COM mem­bers to con­duct bi­lat­er­al re­la­tions but ex­pects the same re­spect for its own en­gage­ments with the Unit­ed States.

For­mer Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter and for­mer po­lit­i­cal leader of the Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) Gary Grif­fith says re­ports that a sus­pect­ed US mil­i­tary base in To­ba­go would on­ly serve to fur­ther se­cure this coun­try from mil­i­tary ag­gres­sion, but felt that trans­paren­cy and clear mes­sag­ing was need­ed on the part of the gov­ern­ment.

An ac­ci­dent in St Joseph ear­ly on Sun­day morn­ing end­ed with the death of an uniden­ti­fied man and an­oth­er in crit­i­cal con­di­tion at hos­pi­tal, po­lice said.

For­mer Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has is­sued a state­ment crit­i­cis­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, her gov­ern­ment, and re­cent po­si­tions on for­eign re­la­tions, re­gion­al en­gage­ment and na­tion­al sov­er­eign­ty.

In 2022, the air­line in­dus­try ac­count­ed for 2 per cent of the world’s car­bon emis­sions. But, for an in­dus­try with a stat­ed goal to achieve net ze­ro CO2 emis­sions by 2050, 2 per cent is two too much.

Dionne Ovid’s house­hold is all about tra­di­tion, es­pe­cial­ly when it comes to Christ­mas good­ies. So much so that the fam­i­ly’s Ponche de Crème recipe has ex­tend­ed its tra­di­tion­al reach to Ovid’s med­ical team at the San­gre Grande hos­pi­tal, where she works as a crit­i­cal care nurse.

A 29-year-old man was shot and killed dur­ing a rob­bery in the ear­ly hours of yes­ter­day dur­ing an in­ci­dent in Chi­nese Vil­lage, La Brea.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is be­ing ac­cused of dis­re­spect­ing To­bag­o­ni­ans af­ter she dis­missed com­ments made by Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine, who said that had the de­ci­sion rest­ed with him, he would have re­ject­ed the in­stal­la­tion of the mil­i­tary radar and de­nied Unit­ed States mil­i­tary air­craft ac­cess to To­ba­go’s air­ports.

Po­lit­i­cal par­ties in To­ba­go have ex­pressed shock and con­cern over what they be­lieve may be a Unit­ed States “mil­i­tary base” op­er­at­ing along­side the con­tro­ver­sial US-in­stalled radar at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

Two months af­ter say­ing Cari­com is not a re­li­able part­ner to Trinidad and To­ba­go (T&T), Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ripped in­to the re­gion­al or­gan­i­sa­tion again, la­belling it dys­func­tion­al.

An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Prime Min­is­ter Gas­ton Browne has launched what ap­pears to be a sting­ing re­buke of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar over com­ments wide­ly in­ter­pret­ed as en­dors­ing si­lence and def­er­ence to­ward the Unit­ed States in ex­change for pro­tec­tion and visa ac­cess.

Head of the Crim­i­nal Bar As­so­ci­a­tion Is­rael Khan, SC, be­lieves the re­port in­to the deaths of PNM MP Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian and her two chil­dren should not be laid in Par­lia­ment but in­stead for­ward­ed to the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) to de­ter­mine whether a crim­i­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion by the po­lice is war­rant­ed and if any in­di­vid­u­als were in­volved in a cov­er-up re­lat­ing to their deaths.