Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo has point­ed to huge job loss­es un­der the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) watch, re­buk­ing for­mer PNM min­is­ter in the Fi­nance Min­istry, Bri­an Man­ning, for blam­ing his (Tan­coo’s) poli­cies for caus­ing T&T’s un­em­ploy­ment cri­sis.

The State has been or­dered to pay over $500,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a po­lice of­fi­cer, whose tran­si­tion from a mu­nic­i­pal po­lice of­fi­cer to the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) was se­vere­ly pro­longed.

The Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) is call­ing for stronger poli­cies to pro­tect the rights of In­dige­nous Peo­ples and ex­pand op­por­tu­ni­ties for their so­cial and eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment across the re­gion.

Is­raeli Prime Min­is­ter Ben­jamin Ne­tanyahu has re­ject­ed the deal on Gaza an­nounced by U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump last month, say­ing Is­rael’s mil­i­tary “will not car­ry out any with­draw­al un­til Hamas is gen­uine­ly dis­armed.”