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.

Pub­lic de­bate con­tin­ues over the re­design of the Coat of Arms (CoA), with graph­ic de­sign­ers urg­ing Gov­ern­ment to de­lay its roll­out on na­tion­al brands, cur­ren­cy and doc­u­ments so a pro­fes­sion­al re­view can be done, af­ter im­ages of the new de­sign were re­vealed over the week­end.

Mem­bers of the le­gal fra­ter­ni­ty have come to the de­fence of Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress To­co/San­gre Grande can­di­date Wayne Sturge, af­ter he came un­der fire for speak­ing out against crime hav­ing rep­re­sent­ed sus­pect­ed gang lead­ers and oth­er no­to­ri­ous peo­ple charged with heinous of­fences.

Po­lice in­tend to in­crease se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures in Bel­mont, even as in­ves­ti­ga­tors con­tin­ue in­quiries in­to the mur­ders of two men in the com­mu­ni­ty on Sat­ur­day night.

A week af­ter mem­bers of the Prison Ser­vice were threat­ened by mem­bers of the crim­i­nal el­e­ment, the homes of two prison of­fi­cers were shot at yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Stu­dents at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies’ St Au­gus­tine cam­pus might not have any ex­ams to look for­ward to at the end of this se­mes­ter, as the West In­dies Group of Uni­ver­si­ty Teach­ers (WIGUT) is threat­en­ing to with­hold ex­am­i­na­tion pa­pers if Gov­ern­ment does give them their promised salary in­creas­es.

The Sen­ate will to­day be pre­sent­ed with the fi­nal re­port of the probe in­to the dis­ap­pear­ance of a file re­lat­ed to the ma­li­cious pros­e­cu­tion case filed by men who were award­ed $20 mil­lion af­ter the State failed to de­fend the mat­ter.

A rel­a­tive of two Matelot broth­ers killed over the week­end has blamed their mur­ders on in­creas­ing­ly hos­tile crim­i­nals in the neigh­bour­hood who have tar­get­ed res­i­dents.