A Cunu­pia busi­ness­man has been grant­ed bail in the sum of $75,000 af­ter be­ing charged with ob­tain­ing goods by use of a dis­hon­oured cheque.

Health lead­ers, tech­ni­cal ex­perts, and coun­try rep­re­sen­ta­tives from 19 Caribbean coun­tries have gath­ered in Trelawny, Ja­maica, for the Caribbean Work­shop on the Strength­en­ing of Elim­i­na­tion of Moth­er-to-Child Trans­mis­sion of spe­cif­ic dis­eases with­in Ma­ter­nal and Child Health (MCH).

The Eu­ro­pean Union is pro­vid­ing Haiti with a fi­nanc­ing grant of nine mil­lion Eu­ros (One Eu­ro=US$1.29 cents) for im­prov­ing the per­for­mance of the coun­try’s Gen­er­al Cus­toms Ad­min­is­tra­tion (AGD).

With just days to go be­fore the of­fi­cial start, Di­rec­tor of the To­ba­go Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency (TEMA), Al­lan Stew­art, says prepa­ra­tions are un­der­way — but far from per­fect.

Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) leader Wat­son Duke says he won’t be en­gag­ing in “the­atrics” ahead of the up­com­ing To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tions. But while he’s not con­firm­ing his par­tic­i­pa­tion just yet, he’s warn­ing all con­tenders that if he steps in, he’s ready.

The PNM's up­com­ing Spe­cial Con­ven­tion has ig­nit­ed a sharp pub­lic ex­change be­tween for­mer Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Ash­ton Ford and cur­rent Par­ty Chair­man Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly, over the role par­ty groups in the in­ter­nal elec­tion process.

Hos­pi­tals in Gaza say Is­raeli strikes overnight and in­to Wednes­day killed at least 45 peo­ple, in­clud­ing sev­er­al women and a week-old in­fant.

Three sex of­fend­ers, one con­vict­ed mur­der­er, a con­vict­ed hu­man traf­fick­er and four peo­ple who com­mit­ted im­mi­gra­tion vi­o­la­tions are among the 21 Trinida­di­an na­tion­als who are be­ing de­port­ed from the Unit­ed States on Fri­day. The oth­ers were guilty of a host of mis­cel­la­neous of­fences.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge is dou­bling down on not al­low­ing Ja­maican dance­hall artiste Vy­bz Kar­tel (Adid­ja Palmer) di­rect ac­cess to the na­tion’s im­pres­sion­able youths. How­ev­er, he has agreed to grant him two me­dia in­ter­views.

Fear and frus­tra­tion are mount­ing in East­ern Quar­ry, Laven­tille, where res­i­dents are voic­ing deep con­cern over po­ten­tial land­slides and un­sta­ble slopes threat­en­ing their homes.

Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Mooni­lal wants a full in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the main­te­nance and use of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) South Cam­pus in Debe, which he says cost tax­pay­ers over $600 mil­lion and re­mains large­ly un­oc­cu­pied and in a state of dis­re­pair.

The Prime Min­is­ter is re­ceiv­ing praise for amal­ga­mat­ing the func­tions and re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of the Min­istries of Plan­ning and Fi­nance by plac­ing each sub­stan­tive min­is­ter to as­sist the oth­er by way of ad­di­tion­al port­fo­lios.