The PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil has launched a se­ries of com­mu­ni­ty meet­ings across the is­land as part of its ef­fort to re­build the par­ty fol­low­ing its loss in the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

A Diego Mar­tin woman was killed, while her 10-year-old son and the dri­ver of the ve­hi­cle were left in­jured, in a car ac­ci­dent along the Diego Mar­tin High­way ear­ly on Mon­day morn­ing.

Is­rael ap­proved plans Mon­day to cap­ture the en­tire Gaza Strip and re­main in the Pales­tin­ian ter­ri­to­ry for an un­spec­i­fied amount of time, two Is­raeli of­fi­cials said, a move that, if im­ple­ment­ed, would vast­ly ex­pand Is­rael’s op­er­a­tions in Gaza and like­ly bring fierce in­ter­na­tion­al op­po­si­tion.

The Unit­ed States Am­bas­sador to Guyana, Nicole The­ri­ot, ap­pealed to­day for peace and the rule of law, as the Caribbean coun­try gets ready to say a fi­nal good­bye to 11-year-old Adri­ana Younge, whose body was found in a swim­ming pool as a ho­tel late last month.

The Na­tion­al Women’s League of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) has is­sued a state­ment high­light­ing con­cerns about the lev­el of fe­male rep­re­sen­ta­tion in the Cab­i­net re­cent­ly ap­point­ed by the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC)-led ad­min­is­tra­tion.

Patrick Man­ning and Dr Kei­th Row­ley, two Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment prime min­is­ters, were not cut from the same cloth. Their fun­da­men­tal be­liefs, lead­er­ship styles, ideas, poli­cies, gov­er­nance and in­ter­ac­tions with peo­ple were very dif­fer­ent.

Res­i­dents of Ca­roni Cen­tral can ex­pect im­prove­ments in their wa­ter sup­ply in the near fu­ture, new­ly elect­ed MP David Lee promised yes­ter­day.

While the Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) and To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) are pleased with the struc­ture of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s Cab­i­net, one Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) MP is plead­ing for youth de­vel­op­ment to be giv­en more pri­or­i­ty.

The two unions that deal with teach­ers at the pri­ma­ry, sec­ondary and ter­tiary lev­els are pleased with the re­turn of the Min­istry of Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion and Skills Train­ing as they be­lieve the task of man­ag­ing all sec­tors ef­fec­tive­ly is too big for one min­istry.

As con­fet­ti blew past the over­grown and un­fin­ished struc­ture of the pro­posed Shi­va Boys’ Hin­du Col­lege, cheers erupt­ed among scores of Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) sup­port­ers turned out to wel­come Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s mo­tor­cade in her Siparia con­stituen­cy.

As he pre­pares to en­ter pub­lic of­fice for the first time, Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der says he is not daunt­ed by the task ahead and looks for­ward to mak­ing a sig­nif­i­cant im­pact on crime and se­cu­ri­ty in T&T.

Air Cana­da is of­fi­cial­ly back in the T&T mar­ket, two years af­ter sus­pend­ing the Toron­to-Port of Spain route in­def­i­nite­ly. AC984 touched down at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al just af­ter one am on Sat­ur­day with 156 pas­sen­gers on­board.