As the coun­try awaits a new Cab­i­net, set to be sworn in on Sat­ur­day, PEP leader Phillip Alexan­der says new­ly elect­ed Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar will lead a peo­ple-first gov­ern­ment and set a new tone for lead­er­ship. 

The Unit­ed States Coast Guard says the crew of its Cut­ter Ven­tur­ous on Fri­day of­floaded at Coast Guard Base Mi­a­mi Beach about 5,300 pounds of co­caine and mar­i­jua­na, worth an es­ti­mat­ed US $14.1 mil­lion, in­ter­dict­ed in the Caribbean Sea.

An­tho­ny Al­banese claimed vic­to­ry as the first Aus­tralian prime min­is­ter to clinch a sec­ond con­sec­u­tive term in 21 years on Sat­ur­day and sug­gest­ed his gov­ern­ment had in­creased its ma­jor­i­ty by not mod­el­ling it­self on U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s ad­min­is­tra­tion.

Po­lice ex­pect to ques­tion and charge a 58-year-old Ch­agua­nas man who at­tempt­ed to rob two su­per­mar­ket em­ploy­ees at knife­point in Kel­ly Vil­lage on Fri­day night.

Po­lice seized three guns and ar­rest­ed one man dur­ing the fu­ner­al of mur­dered Mar­aval man Arkim Quashie.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young is en­ti­tled to a pen­sion un­der the Prime Min­is­ter’s Pen­sion Act, ef­fec­tive once he ex­its pub­lic of­fice.

Soon-to-be ex-chair­man of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty Ravin­dra Nan­ga, SC, says a de­ci­sion not to re­new the con­tracts of some 400 em­ploy­ees was not done out of mal­ice.

At­tor­neys with­in the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) say they do not feel slight­ed by the ap­point­ment of John Je­re­mie as At­tor­ney Gen­er­al. In fact, one says she is not ex­pe­ri­enced enough to hold the sec­ond-high­est po­si­tion in the coun­try’s Gov­ern­ment.

The new Cab­i­net of the Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar ad­min­is­tra­tion will be sworn in­to of­fice at 4 pm to­day at the Pres­i­dent’s House.

There were no con­grat­u­la­tions but rather con­dem­na­tion from the Pa­tri­ot­ic Front (PF) over John Je­re­mie’s ap­point­ment to At­tor­ney Gen­er­al.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day re­ceived a call from Unit­ed States Sec­re­tary of State, Mar­co Ru­bio, con­grat­u­lat­ing her on her vic­to­ry in the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, the US State De­part­ment con­firmed.

​In the wake of the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, the fu­ture of 14 un­suc­cess­ful po­lit­i­cal par­ties re­mains un­cer­tain.