Two trop­i­cal storms gath­ered strength off Mex­i­co’s Pa­cif­ic Coast Mon­day, with one fore­cast to be­come a hur­ri­cane lat­er in the day, fore­cast­ers warned.

St Vin­cent and the Grenadines Prime Min­is­ter Dr Ralph Gon­salves has urged both Trinidad and To­ba­go and Venezuela to ex­er­cise re­straint and re­solve their dif­fer­ences peace­ful­ly and in line with in­ter­na­tion­al law.

Po­lit­i­cal leader of the Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice (MSJ), David Ab­du­lah, has crit­i­cised Gov­ern­ment’s han­dling of re­cent al­le­ga­tions in­volv­ing Venezuela, urg­ing a mea­sured re­sponse ground­ed in diplo­ma­cy rather than spec­u­la­tion.

The vic­tims were iden­ti­fied as David Matthew Har­roo, 42 and his wife Jen­nifer Ra­moutars­ingh, 34. One of the cou­ple’s six chil­dren, who was in the ve­hi­cle at the time, was crit­i­cal­ly in­jured.

Po­lice were yes­ter­day search­ing for a Diego Mar­tin man who was record­ed as­sault­ing a young woman and or­der­ing her to get dressed as her, “Sev­en days were done.”

A con­tro­ver­sy over the cost of cre­ma­tions at the Ca­roni Cre­ma­tion Site (CCS) is now brew­ing be­tween Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (TPRC) chair­man Josi­ah Austin and the spir­i­tu­al head of the Satya Anand Ashram, Pun­dit Satyanand Ma­haraj.

A 41-year-old man is in sta­ble con­di­tion af­ter be­ing shot four times by po­lice in Ca­roni on Fri­day night.

Four peo­ple were recog­nised for their out­stand­ing achieve­ments in their re­spec­tive fields dur­ing the An­tho­ny N Sab­ga Caribbean Awards for Ex­cel­lence at the Hy­att Ho­tel on Sat­ur­day night.

Two years af­ter los­ing her son in a fa­tal ex­plo­sion at Ni­Quan En­er­gy’s Pointe-a-Pierre plant, Al­lan­lane Ramkissoon’s moth­er is re­lieved that she may fi­nal­ly get an­swers sur­round­ing his death. 

For­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young has de­fend­ed the de­ci­sion of the Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries to refuse to dis­close its in­ves­tiga­tive re­port in­to an in­dus­tri­al ac­ci­dent at Ni­Quan En­er­gy’s Pointe-a-Pierre plant, which claimed the life of an em­ploy­ee of a third-par­ty con­trac­tor.

Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie met with the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, Min­is­ter of Jus­tice and oth­ers to dis­cuss is­sues raised about vir­tu­al court op­er­a­tions.

New­ly ap­point­ed chair­man of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA), Roshan Bab­wah, says a com­pre­hen­sive plan for the au­thor­i­ty’s op­er­a­tions will be re­vealed with­in the next month.