With just over a month to go be­fore the Oc­to­ber Car­ni­val, sev­er­al of To­ba­go’s ma­jor Car­ni­val stake­hold­ers have dis­tanced them­selves from Wednes­day night’s of­fi­cial launch.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) deputy leader Colm Im­bert has ad­mit­ted that the par­ty’s de­feat in the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion stemmed from what he blunt­ly called “too many stu­pid mis­takes.”

Venezue­lan Jus­tice Min­is­ter Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of be­ing “re­spon­si­ble” for the deaths of fish­er­men killed in a U.S. mil­i­tary strike in the Caribbean.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo has de­fend­ed the dis­missal of 400 work­ers from the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP), say­ing the Op­po­si­tion has no moral au­thor­i­ty to crit­i­cise the move.

The leader of the Ja­maica Labour Par­ty (JLP), An­drew Hol­ness, will be sworn in next week for his third term in of­fice as Prime Min­is­ter of Ja­maica.

Amer­i­cans are mark­ing 24 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, at­tacks with solemn cer­e­monies, vol­un­teer work and oth­er trib­utes ho­n­our­ing the vic­tims.

Po­lice are search­ing for three men who robbed an off-du­ty prison of­fi­cer of his car, which was lat­er re­cov­ered in Laven­tille.

Af­ter near­ly two decades of lit­i­ga­tion, a Flori­da ap­peals court has up­held a ju­ry ver­dict against Steve Fer­gu­son, find­ing him li­able for fraud, con­spir­a­cy, and vi­o­la­tions of Flori­da’s Civ­il RI­CO law over in­flat­ed con­tracts tied to the con­struc­tion of the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

Miss Uni­verse Trinidad and To­ba­go Dr Sih­lè Le­tren has an­nounced her res­ig­na­tion as ti­tle hold­er, step­ping down ahead of the Miss Uni­verse 2025 com­pe­ti­tion.

Three teens have been hos­pi­talised in crit­i­cal con­di­tion af­ter a shoot­ing at a sub­ur­ban Den­ver high school, au­thor­i­ties said Wednes­day.

This was con­firmed by Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen yes­ter­day.

With more than a decade of ser­vice at the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP), a 55-year-old sin­gle moth­er was among hun­dreds of work­ers left in tears yes­ter­day, af­ter they were giv­en ter­mi­na­tion let­ters.