Two men from Mal­oney and Pi­ar­co were robbed on Thurs­day af­ter­noon by ban­dits who promised a Nis­san Ti­i­da for sale in Barataria.

The Prime Min­is­ters of Saint Vin­cent and the Grenadines, Bar­ba­dos, Ja­maica, and Be­lize will ad­dress the morn­ing ses­sion of the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly de­bate, which re­sumes to­day, 26 Sep­tem­ber, from 9 am (East­ern Caribbean Time).

A po­lice of­fi­cer has been placed on sev­en days’ in­jury leave af­ter he was struck by a stone thrown by a men­tal­ly ill man in Cou­va on Wednes­day night.

The Bank­ing, In­sur­ance and Gen­er­al Work­ers’ Union (BIG­WU) has ac­cused the CEPEP Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed and the Gov­ern­ment of dis­guis­ing an em­ploy­ment re­la­tion­ship to de­ny 11,500 work­ers their law­ful rights.

Is­raeli Prime Min­is­ter Ben­jamin Ne­tanyahu told the U.N. Gen­er­al As­sem­bly on Fri­day that Is­rael “must fin­ish the job” against Hamas in Gaza, giv­ing a de­fi­ant U.N. speech de­spite grow­ing in­ter­na­tion­al iso­la­tion over his re­fusal to end the dev­as­tat­ing war in Gaza.

Do­mini­ca’s Prime Min­is­ter, Roo­sevelt Sker­rit, has called for a “struc­tur­al change” at the Bar­ba­dos-based Caribbean Ex­am­i­na­tion Coun­cil (CXC) as part of the re­form of the ed­u­ca­tion sys­tem that is ur­gent­ly re­quired in the Or­gan­i­sa­tion of East­ern Caribbean States (OECS).

Top-ranked and sev­en-time cham­pi­on Aus­tralia will be try­ing to pre­vent In­dia from win­ning a Women’s Crick­et World Cup at home — yet again — when play be­gins in the tour­na­ment next week.

Rus­sia is sell­ing mil­i­tary equip­ment and tech­nol­o­gy to Chi­na that could help Bei­jing pre­pare an air­borne in­va­sion of Tai­wan, ac­cord­ing to an analy­sis of leaked Russ­ian doc­u­ments by a U.K.-based de­fense and se­cu­ri­ty fo­rum.

Hur­ri­cane Hum­ber­to formed in the At­lantic Ocean but is not cur­rent­ly threat­en­ing land as the for­mer Hur­ri­cane Gabrielle passed Fri­day across the Azores, fore­cast­ers said.

An Ari­ma man was killed in a shootout with po­lice near SWA­HA Hin­du Col­lege on Cu­napo South­ern Main Road, San­gre Grande, around 7.05 pm yes­ter­day.

In a warn­ing to the Gov­ern­ment to get its fi­nan­cial house in or­der, the glob­al rat­ing agency Stan­dard & Poor’s (S&P) yes­ter­day re­vised the coun­try’s out­look from sta­ble to neg­a­tive, while af­firm­ing its rat­ings on T&T at ‘BBB-/A-3’ long- and short-term for­eign and lo­cal cur­ren­cy sov­er­eign cred­it rat­ings.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has hailed this coun­try’s re­cent meet­ing with Sau­di Ara­bi­an en­er­gy gi­ant Sau­di Aram­co as a ma­jor step to­ward eas­ing the for­eign ex­change cri­sis and cre­at­ing jobs.