ANSA McAL has thrown its sup­port be­hind the 2025 Women in Lead­er­ship (WIL) Con­fer­ence, host­ed by the UWI Arthur Lok Jack Glob­al School of Busi­ness, as part of its push to cre­ate more space for women in lead­er­ship.

Of­fi­cers of the An­ti-Kid­nap­ping Unit (AKU) have un­til 4 pm to­day to ei­ther charge or re­lease a den­tist who was ar­rest­ed last week on sus­pi­cion of re­ceiv­ing a ran­som pay­ment in con­nec­tion with the kid­nap­ping of Jankie Satie Karim.

The U.S. Navy hos­pi­tal ship USNS Com­fort will vis­it Trinidad and To­ba­go from Au­gust 5 to 11 as part of the Con­tin­u­ing Promise 2025 mis­sion. The ves­sel will be moored in Port-of-Spain.

Turks and Caicos po­lice say Hait­ian gangs are be­hind the first known mass shoot­ing in the British Over­seas Ter­ri­to­ry (BOT), which re­sult­ed in “a mass ca­su­al­ty” event on Sun­day.

The Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC) has con­demned what it de­scribes as an “au­thor­i­tar­i­an-like” in­ci­dent at Teteron Bar­racks, where an at­tor­ney was al­leged­ly blind­fold­ed be­fore be­ing al­lowed to con­sult with a client.

The U.N. Gen­er­al As­sem­bly is bring­ing high-lev­el of­fi­cials to­geth­er this week to pro­mote a two-state so­lu­tion to the decades-old Is­rael-Pales­tin­ian con­flict that would place their peo­ples side by side, liv­ing in peace in in­de­pen­dent na­tions.

Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has cre­at­ed po­lit­i­cal his­to­ry once again, win­ning her fourth con­sec­u­tive in­ter­nal lead­er­ship elec­tion since 2010 and do­ing so un­op­posed. The nom­i­na­tion-on­ly vic­to­ry comes just 90 days af­ter she led the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) to a land­slide win in the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, re­turn­ing the par­ty to gov­ern­ment with a com­mand­ing ma­jor­i­ty.

Cou­va South MP and Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath says the new ad­min­is­tra­tion has made strong progress in its first 90 days since the Gen­er­al Elec­tion, de­liv­er­ing on key cam­paign promis­es and of­fer­ing more com­pas­sion­ate, peo­ple-cen­tered gov­er­nance.

Al­though Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Po­lit­i­cal Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has named her three deputy lead­ers to help steer the par­ty back in­to gov­ern­ment, po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr Shane Mo­hammed be­lieves on­ly a cat­a­stroph­ic fail­ure by the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion could al­low that.

Min­is­ter of De­fence Wayne Sturge says the Civil­ian Con­ser­va­tion Corps (CCC) pro­gramme has not been shut down.

Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Michelle Ben­jamin has ac­knowl­edged the con­cerns raised by the Eman­ci­pa­tion Sup­port Com­mit­tee of Trinidad and To­ba­go (ES­CTT) over gov­ern­ment fund­ing but says re­form of the fes­ti­val is ur­gent­ly need­ed.

Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) Di­rec­tor David West is stand­ing firm on his de­ci­sion to com­ment on the num­ber of fa­tal po­lice shoot­ings since the State of Emer­gency was de­clared.