A Dutch cruise ship with near­ly 150 peo­ple aboard, in­clud­ing 17 Amer­i­cans, was wait­ing for help off the coast of Cape Verde in the At­lantic Ocean on Mon­day af­ter a sus­pect­ed out­break of the rare han­tavirus killed three pas­sen­gers and left at least three oth­ers se­ri­ous­ly ill, the World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion and the ship’s op­er­a­tor said.

For­mer New York City May­or Rudolph Giu­liani is hos­pi­tal­ized in crit­i­cal but sta­ble con­di­tion, his spokesper­son said Sun­day, days af­ter the Re­pub­li­can hoarse­ly told his talk show au­di­ence that his voice was “a lit­tle un­der the weath­er.”

As Trinidad and To­ba­go heads in­to what some of­fi­cials ex­pect to be an ac­tive rainy and hur­ri­cane sea­son, Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen has launched a month-long na­tion­al pre­pared­ness cam­paign.

As the Gov­ern­ment in­ten­si­fies its fight against crime through State of Emer­gency mea­sures, polic­ing strate­gies and leg­isla­tive re­form, one of the coun­try’s most crit­i­cal crime-gen­er­at­ing en­vi­ron­ments—the prison sys­tem—con­tin­ues to op­er­ate un­der se­vere strain. Ex­perts warn that with­out ur­gent in­ter­ven­tion, it risks fu­elling the very crim­i­nal­i­ty au­thor­i­ties are try­ing to con­tain.

Four months af­ter walk­ing out of the Gold­en Grove Prison a free man, Rod­ney Davis is ask­ing not for sym­pa­thy, but for a sec­ond chance to be­come a pro­duc­tive mem­ber of so­ci­ety.

Beach­front Jazz trans­formed in­to a live­ly par­ty on Sat­ur­day night, with pa­trons singing along and danc­ing in­to the ear­ly hours at the Mag­dale­na Grand Beach and Golf Re­sort in Low­lands.

As po­lice con­tin­ued their search yes­ter­day for two re­main­ing sus­pects linked to home in­va­sions in parts of Cunu­pia, res­i­dents said they felt more at ease amid fre­quent pa­trols and height­ened se­cu­ri­ty ac­tiv­i­ty in the com­mu­ni­ty.

Res­i­dents of Mara­cas, St Joseph, showed their ap­pre­ci­a­tion for key fig­ures in their com­mu­ni­ty dur­ing a spe­cial Mass at St Michael’s RC Church, Llu­en­go, yes­ter­day morn­ing.

A Siparia fam­i­ly is griev­ing the sud­den death of a re­tiree who was killed in a crash just hours af­ter telling rel­a­tives he was head­ing to a steel­pan event in Point Fortin for Bor­ough Day cel­e­bra­tions.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) Moth­er’s Day Pop-Up Shop drew large crowds at the Cen­tre of Ex­cel­lence in Ma­coya over the week­end, with or­gan­is­ers say­ing the event has al­ready out­grown the venue due to over­whelm­ing de­mand.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has pushed back against Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, say­ing she has no moral au­thor­i­ty to ad­vise her on in­ter­nal par­ty mat­ters, as she de­fend­ed her de­ci­sion to stage a walk­out from Par­lia­ment on Fri­day.

The clo­sure of sev­er­al Caribbean me­dia hous­es has high­light­ed the ur­gent need to strength­en sus­tain­able busi­ness mod­els as jour­nal­ism across the re­gion faces mount­ing pres­sure on mul­ti­ple fronts.