A 37-year-old woman and her fam­i­ly were left trau­ma­tised af­ter gun­shots were fired in their yard at Richard Lane, Long­denville, on Tues­day night.

Suri­name has de­clared two days of na­tion­al mourn­ing ahead of Sat­ur­day’s state fu­ner­al for for­mer pres­i­dent Jules Wi­j­den­bosch.

The Po­lice Ser­vice has is­sued an­oth­er stern warn­ing to the pub­lic to re­main vig­i­lant against fi­nan­cial scams and to ver­i­fy all re­quests for mon­ey trans­fers, es­pe­cial­ly those in­volv­ing cur­ren­cy ex­change or pur­port­ing to be for ur­gent med­ical sit­u­a­tions.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump on Fri­day float­ed cut­ting tar­iffs on Chi­na from 145% to 80% ahead of a week­end meet­ing among top U.S. and Chi­nese trade of­fi­cials as he looks to deesca­late the trade war be­tween the world’s two largest economies.

The PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil has opened nom­i­na­tions for can­di­dates to con­test the up­com­ing To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tions, which are con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly due in De­cem­ber 2025.

In­dia’s biggest do­mes­tic crick­et tour­na­ment was sus­pend­ed for one week on Fri­day fol­low­ing the es­ca­lat­ing mil­i­tary ten­sions with Pak­istan.

In­di­an and Pak­istani sol­diers ex­changed heavy vol­leys of shells and gun­fire across their fron­tier in Kash­mir overnight, killing at least five civil­ians in a grow­ing mil­i­tary stand­off that erupt­ed fol­low­ing an at­tack on tourists in the In­dia-con­trolled por­tion of the dis­put­ed re­gion.

The ex­ec­u­tive board of the In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF) says the mem­ber coun­tries of the East­ern Caribbean Cur­ren­cy Union (EC­CU) have achieved a strong re­bound from suc­ces­sive ad­verse shocks.

Fol­low­ing the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment's (PNM) de­feat in the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, the par­ty's gen­er­al sec­re­tary has pub­licly stat­ed that he was not con­sult­ed on, nor did he ap­prove of, the strat­e­gy that led to the loss.

The coun­try has a $4.42 bil­lion deficit “hole” for May and a pro­ject­ed $11 bil­lion deficit for this fis­cal year—but Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says her Gov­ern­ment will fix it in or­der to ho­n­our the par­ty promis­es to in­crease pub­lic ser­vants’ salaries.

Speak­ing at yes­ter­day’s post-Cab­i­net news brief­ing at the Red House, Port-of-Spain, Per­sad-Bisses­sar de­clared, “Nev­er fear, Kam­la is here.”

That was the mes­sage Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar had for her Cab­i­net mem­bers as she an­nounced that she would put an end to state-fund­ed hous­ing for State of­fi­cials.