Op­po­si­tion Chief Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les has called on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar (Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil chair­man) to name the at­tor­ney with “close ties to the UNC Gov­ern­ment” who is de­mand­ing cer­tain ques­tion­able hir­ings—so much so that it has re­sult­ed in re­port­ed death threats against De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge.

There are calls for an in­ves­ti­ga­tion af­ter a woman, who did not know she was preg­nant, wait­ed two hours for an am­bu­lance that al­leged­ly nev­er ar­rived as she went in­to labour at the Cen­tre of Ex­cel­lence. The new­born ba­by boy died soon af­ter be­ing born.

A 33-year-old Table­land man lost his life at Ma­yaro Beach on Sat­ur­day, turn­ing what was meant to be a joy­ful week­end re­union in­to a scene of heart­break for a group of fam­i­lies.

Nigel Du­doon could swim, but that did not save him from drown­ing dur­ing a fam­i­ly lime at Colum­bus Bay on Sat­ur­day. Now his griev­ing rel­a­tives are urg­ing oth­ers to be cau­tious when vis­it­ing the beach.