An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Prime Min­is­ter Gas­ton Browne says he has no is­sue with the new Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Sean Sobers.

Trinci­ty/Mal­oney MP Camille Robin­son-Reg­is has slammed what she says are “mis­lead­ing claims” that the 120th Re­port of the Salaries Re­view Com­mis­sion (SRC) was “nev­er brought be­fore Par­lia­ment.”

Al­though Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) gen­er­al sec­re­tary Fos­ter Cum­mings is un­moved by calls for his res­ig­na­tion fol­low­ing the par­ty’s April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion de­feat, there are mixed views on whether he should be in the par­ty’s ex­ec­u­tive.

For­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) of­fi­cial Robert Le Hunte says Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ny Beck­les will have his full sup­port if she puts her­self up for par­ty leader, as he ex­pects she will, and he’s open, af­ter dis­cus­sion with her and oth­er lead­er­ship of­fi­cials, to help re­build the par­ty.

The di­rec­tor of the Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO), Dr. Jar­bas Bar­bosa, has called on Min­istries of Health in the re­gion to in­crease sur­veil­lance and lead the charge to­wards the elim­i­na­tion of mos­qui­to breed­ing grounds in a bid to re­duce mos­qui­to-trans­mit­ted virus­es such as Dengue, Zi­ka and Chikun­gun­ya.

The Massy Group host­ed the Japan­ese am­bas­sador to T&T, Dr. Aki­ma Umeza­wa, at Massy Group’s Port of Spain head of­fice re­cent­ly.

Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Sean Sobers says he has asked his per­ma­nent sec­re­tary to pro­vide a re­port on why Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als now need a visa to vis­it Ire­land.

Amer­i­can R&B singer Keyshia Cole re­vealed that she was on­ly asked to per­form three songs at last evening's R&B Brunch Fes­ti­val at Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah in Port of Spain.

A 25-year-old Ari­ma man was killed on Sat­ur­day. The vic­tim has been iden­ti­fied as Is­rael Ass­ing.

Po­lice re­port­ed that the woman was on her way to her Clax­ton Bay apart­ment around 12 am when she was ap­proached by two men—one of whom was armed with a gun—who forced her in­to her home.

A 15-year-old Mal­oney res­i­dent is list­ed in a crit­i­cal con­di­tion af­ter he was shot in the head on Sat­ur­day night.

The East­ern Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (ER­HA) ho­n­oured all moth­ers and ex­pec­tant moth­ers at the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal Cam­pus on Moth­er’s Day.