Pop­u­lar High Court judge Frank Seep­er­sad is among five judges ap­point­ed to the Court of Ap­peal, bring­ing the court's com­ple­ment to full strength.

The Bar­ba­dos-based Caribbean Cli­mate Out­look Fo­rum (Cari­COF) Mon­day said as the Caribbean tran­si­tions out of the At­lantic Hur­ri­cane Sea­son, it will have to deal with a very strong El Niño event that could among oth­er things re­sult in a po­ten­tial ex­pan­sion and or in­ten­si­fi­ca­tion of drought.

Suc­cess con­tin­ues to fol­low Berna­do Thomp­son, aka Tam Tam, who com­plet­ed a clean sweep of To­ba­go Car­ni­val 2026, adding the in­au­gur­al Road March ti­tle to his maid­en So­ca Ti­tans crown.

The U.S. Food and Drug Ad­min­is­tra­tion has ap­proved a gener­ic ver­sion of the world’s on­ly twice-a-year shot to pre­vent HIV — a big step to­ward mak­ing the drug avail­able in­ex­pen­sive­ly and more quick­ly in 120 low- and mid­dle-in­come coun­tries.

Lead­ers rep­re­sent­ing near­ly a third of the world’s pop­u­la­tion are meet­ing on the tiny Caribbean is­land of An­tigua this week to strength­en ties dur­ing a time of glob­al po­lit­i­cal up­heaval.

The State has reached a set­tle­ment with for­mer Cen­tral Bank Gov­er­nor Dr Alvin Hi­laire, avert­ing a tri­al in his con­sti­tu­tion­al claim against the Cab­i­net and the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands, through at­tor­neys in­volved in the case.

Months af­ter Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Health and Safe­ty (OSH) in­spec­tors iden­ti­fied over 20 health and safe­ty vi­o­la­tions at the Rio Claro Fire Sta­tion and warned the Fire Ser­vice about its di­lap­i­dat­ed state, fire­fight­ers yes­ter­day closed and aban­doned the sta­tion in­def­i­nite­ly.

Trade unions have called out Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar for urg­ing them to work with the Gov­ern­ment to set­tle out­stand­ing ne­go­ti­a­tions, say­ing they have con­sis­tent­ly called for a col­lec­tive meet­ing with her to ad­dress un­re­solved labour mat­ters.

Mi­nor­i­ty share­hold­er ad­vo­cate Pe­ter Per­me­ll has for­mal­ly re­ject­ed Agos­ti­ni Lim­it­ed’s $12.15-per-share ac­qui­si­tion of­fer for his shares in Pres­tige Hold­ings Ltd (PHL), elect­ing in­stead to have their fair val­ue de­ter­mined by the High Court.

Mud and oil made way for beads and feath­ers, but the eu­pho­ria on the streets of Scar­bor­ough en­dured as To­ba­go Car­ni­val 2026 end­ed in splen­dour yes­ter­day.

A man was shot and killed by po­lice dur­ing an op­er­a­tion at a house in Hin­dus­tan yes­ter­day, af­ter he al­leged­ly threat­ened of­fi­cers with a cut­lass.

A 35-year-old man was stabbed to death fol­low­ing an al­ter­ca­tion with a group of men at a Va­len­cia gas sta­tion yes­ter­day morn­ing.