King's Coun­sel Vin­cent Nel­son has lost a sec­ond ap­peal over his con­vic­tion for par­tic­i­pat­ing in an al­leged le­gal fee kick­back scheme.

Pres­i­dent of the Me­dia In­sti­tute of the Caribbean, Ki­ran Ma­haraj, has been elect­ed to the steer­ing com­mit­tee of the Glob­al Fo­rum for Me­dia De­vel­op­ment. The an­nounce­ment was made on Ju­ly 16 dur­ing an Ex­tra­or­di­nary Gen­er­al As­sem­bly of the GFMD, fol­low­ing an on­line vote by mem­ber or­gan­i­sa­tions.

Prime Min­is­ter Keir Starmer said Tues­day the U.K. will recog­nise a Pales­tin­ian state in Sep­tem­ber – un­less Is­rael agrees to a cease­fire in Gaza and takes steps to­ward long-term peace.

The Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) will im­ple­ment the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil’s T20 In­ter­na­tion­al play­ing con­di­tions be­gin­ning with the up­com­ing sea­son.

Bar­ba­dos is en­hanc­ing ac­cess to fi­nance for mi­cro, small, and medi­um-sized en­ter­pris­es (MSMEs) through a US$50 mil­lion loan from the In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank (IDB).

For­mer na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter Stu­art Young has de­nied claims by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar that the for­mer PNM ad­min­is­tra­tion en­abled the for­ma­tion of a crim­i­nal syn­di­cate in­side the prison sys­tem by group­ing gang lead­ers to­geth­er in Build­ing 13 at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison.

Po­lice said Mikhail Camp­bell was at his house at Ma­tu­ri­ta Ex­ten­sion, By-Pass Road, lim­ing with friends and rel­a­tives, when at about 11:40 pm, a man ap­proached and called out his name.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the mur­der of a 38-year-old man who was shot dead in the carpark of Hang­over Restau­rant and Bar on Pe­nal Rock Road ear­ly Tues­day morn­ing.

An Ari­ma man has been charged with the 2024 mur­der of 19-year-old Maria Paul, whose body was found in the Va­len­cia dis­trict last Oc­to­ber.

A 23-year-old me­chan­ic has been charged with the mur­der of Scott Ram­baran, whose body was found in D’Abadie on Ju­ly 10th.

A 22-year-old farmer has been charged with the 2024 mur­der of Ky­lon Joseph, who was shot and killed in Mt Hope on May 6th last year.

A 29-year-old Siparia woman died on Mon­day night af­ter her car crashed off a bridge and plunged in­to the South Oropouche Riv­er in Debe.