Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has reached out to Ja­maican Prime Min­is­ter An­drew Hol­ness as Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa, a Cat­e­go­ry 5 storm that is fore­cast to be the most pow­er­ful storm in Ja­maica’s his­to­ry, is ex­pect­ed to make land­fall to­day, bring­ing cat­a­stroph­ic winds and flood­ing.

The Gov­ern­ment will be re­open­ing the T&T Ho­tel School, which has been closed for al­most eight years, says Plan­ning Min­is­ter Kennedy Swarats­ingh.

In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor Ali­cia Pauline Lalite-Et­ti­enne has crit­i­cised the 2026 Bud­get, de­scrib­ing it as one that claims to be peo­ple-cen­tred but which will, in re­al­i­ty, in­crease the cost of liv­ing for the most fi­nan­cial­ly vul­ner­a­ble.

Less than two months af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar promised to de­port 200 il­le­gal Venezue­lan mi­grants, the Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty has is­sued an or­der to place all il­le­gal mi­grants at the Im­mi­gra­tion De­ten­tion Cen­tre for de­por­ta­tion.

A 42-year-old Pe­nal house­wife is re­call­ing the trau­ma she en­dured when three ban­dits stormed her home yes­ter­day morn­ing, forc­ing her to beg them to spare her life and the lives of her two daugh­ters, aged 18 and five.

The Ap­peal Court is seek­ing to bring clar­i­ty and set an es­tab­lished prece­dent in the in­ter­pre­ta­tion of the Bail Amend­ment Act that al­lows mur­der ac­cused to ap­ply for bail.

Three weeks af­ter a fam­i­ly was at­tacked in their home at Friend­ship Vil­lage in Ste Madeleine by gun­men, leav­ing a moth­er and son dead and two oth­ers in­jured, their neigh­bour suf­fered a sim­i­lar fate, which left him in crit­i­cal con­di­tion.

Four men, in­clud­ing a 13-year-old boy, were held by sev­er­al fire of­fi­cers they had ear­li­er robbed at the San­gre Grande Fire Sta­tion in the ear­ly hours yes­ter­day.

Four mem­bers of a Curepe fam­i­ly were tied up, robbed, and ter­rorised by armed men dur­ing a home in­va­sion in the ear­ly hours of Sun­day morn­ing.

A psy­chi­atric eval­u­a­tion has been re­quest­ed for the teenag­er who was re­spon­si­ble for start­ing a fire on Sun­day which gut­ted the fam­i­ly’s home in San­ta Cruz. Rel­a­tives of the 16-year-old re­port­ed that the girl be­gan “act­ing strange­ly and speak­ing of hear­ing strange voic­es” some time ago.

Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro has con­firmed the sus­pen­sion of gas agree­ments with Trinidad and To­ba­go, say­ing the de­ci­sion stems from what he de­scribed as “hos­tile ac­tions” by the Gov­ern­ment of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

For­mer mur­der ac­cused and al­leged ex­tor­tion­ist Michael “Rat” Ma­haraj was grant­ed bail on five charges of de­mand­ing mon­ey by men­ace last Fri­day.