Cal­i­for­nia fire­fight­ers bat­tled wind-whipped wild­fires that tore across the Los An­ge­les area, de­stroy­ing homes, clog­ging road­ways as tens of thou­sands fled and strain­ing re­sources as the fires burned un­con­tained ear­ly Wednes­day.

When An­tho­ny La Fleur, bet­ter known as Squeezy Rankin, was 17 years old, he com­posed a song for a man named Le­ston, from La Hor­quet­ta, who died.

Leader of Gov­ern­ment Busi­ness Camille Robin­son-Reg­is is deny­ing there is any fric­tion or an­i­mos­i­ty with­in the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), de­spite the fact that al­most half of its Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment did not sup­port Stu­art Young to suc­ceed Dr Kei­th Row­ley as Prime Min­is­ter.

The peo­ple of Ari­ma are dis­ap­point­ed that MP Pen­ne­lope Beck­les was over­looked for the prime min­is­ter­ship of the coun­try in favour of Stu­art Young.