Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has warned that her gov­ern­ment’s sus­pen­sion of the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) and re­view of the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP) has trig­gered push­back from what she de­scribed as the “deep state” and “the bel­ly of the un­der­world.”

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has is­sued an ul­ti­ma­tum to the man­age­ment of lo­cal car­ri­er Caribbean Air­lines (CAL): ‘sort out the mess’ in two years or find a new job. Speak­ing at the UNC's Mon­day Night Re­port in Cou­va, Per­sad-Bisses­sar ac­cused man­age­ment of fail­ing to do its job, pay­ing $60 mil­lion to EY and Price­wa­ter­house­C­oop­ers (PwC) for au­dits de­spite a large in­ter­nal fi­nan­cial team, fail­ing to sub­mit au­dit­ed fi­nan­cial state­ments, and op­er­at­ing un­prof­itable routes.

Wall Street took the post­pone­ment of the U.S.-Chi­na tar­iff dead­line in stride and re­fo­cused on in­fla­tion num­bers ar­riv­ing Tues­day that may play an out­sized roll in the de­ci­sion by the Fed­er­al Re­serve about weath­er to cut rates, as Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump is de­mand­ing, or stand pat.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has de­liv­ered a blunt and un­com­pro­mis­ing warn­ing to mem­bers of her own par­lia­men­tary team.

Nicholas Pooran is a force to be reck­oned with on the field, es­pe­cial­ly when it comes to T-20 crick­et. How­ev­er, his im­pact spans be­yond the game, as his ded­i­ca­tion to in­spir­ing young peo­ple off the field is scor­ing him a lot of runs as well.

A High Court rep­re­sen­ta­tive has con­firmed that the files re­lat­ing to the con­tentious re­newals of Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) con­tracts were sent to the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) last Fri­day. Ac­cord­ing to the of­fi­cial, the DPP’s sec­re­tari­at has con­firmed re­ceipt and the doc­u­ments were trans­mit­ted elec­tron­i­cal­ly.

Fol­low­ing the re­sults of a sec­ond au­top­sy on six-year-old Jash­er Fran­cois, which sug­gest­ed that an ad­verse re­ac­tion to in­tra­venous­ly ad­min­is­tered med­ica­tion caused his death, the Min­istry of Health has ap­point­ed a com­mit­tee to in­ves­ti­gate the mat­ter.

One hun­dred days af­ter sweep­ing in­to pow­er in the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) is mark­ing a pe­ri­od of leg­isla­tive ac­tion, ear­ly re­forms, and a cau­tious but de­ter­mined start on its am­bi­tious cam­paign agen­da.

A Mor­vant man, who was charged two months ago with throw­ing pro­hib­it­ed items in­to the Port-of-Spain Prison, was grant­ed $250,000 bail af­ter he was fi­nal­ly held by po­lice on Sun­day.

The fa­ther of al­leged gang leader Ra­jaee Ali has pub­licly re­ject­ed po­lice claims that his son was in­volved in a plot to kill ju­di­cial of­fi­cers, while one of Ali’s at­tor­neys, Keron Ramkhal­whan, has de­nied that Ali made any threats against him.

Three more men have been trans­ferred from the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP) in Arou­ca to the De­fence Force’s head­quar­ters at Ch­aguara­mas.

To­ba­go East MP David Thomas says con­sul­ta­tions on the pro­posed stand-your-ground leg­is­la­tion are “on the hori­zon” and like­ly to hap­pen on the is­land be­fore the end of Au­gust.