White smoke is pour­ing out of the Sis­tine Chapel chim­ney, sig­nalling that a pope has been elect­ed to lead the Catholic Church.

The Min­istry of Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism has wel­comed Satyaka­ma Ma­haraj, a day af­ter he was sworn in as the new Min­is­ter.

The An­ju­man Sun­nat-ul-Ja­maat As­so­ci­a­tion (AS­JA) says it is hope­ful that un­der the UNC ad­min­is­tra­tion, the de­vel­op­men­tal and re­li­gious needs of the Sun­ni Is­lam­ic com­mu­ni­ty will be giv­en thought­ful con­sid­er­a­tion.

PNM chair­man and for­mer Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion, Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly, says all cit­i­zens should be con­cerned "with no sight of the Ho­n­ourable PM since her swear­ing in."

Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) says it is close­ly mon­i­tor­ing the es­ca­lat­ing sit­u­a­tion be­tween In­dia and Pak­istan fol­low­ing re­cent mil­i­tary ac­tions in the re­gion.

To­ba­go pulled in over 50,000 cruise ship pas­sen­gers this sea­son—one of the is­land’s busiest in re­cent years.

The Min­istry of Home Af­fairs has an­nounced the ap­point­ment of a Cana­di­an in­ves­ti­ga­tor to as­sist with the on­go­ing probe in­to the death of 11-year-old Adri­ana Younge.

The To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion (TH­TA) says it is ea­ger to meet with new­ly ap­point­ed Min­is­ter of Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism, Satyaka­ma “Ka­ma” Ma­haraj, to dis­cuss ways to grow the sec­tor.

In­dia fired at­tack drones in­to Pak­istan on Thurs­day, wound­ing four sol­diers, the Pak­istani mil­i­tary said. In­dia, mean­while, ac­cused its neigh­bor of at­tempt­ing its own at­tack, as ten­sions soared be­tween the nu­clear-armed ri­vals.

Po­lice have re­cov­ered three swords that were stolen from the Ch­aguara­mas Mil­i­tary His­to­ry and Aero­space Mu­se­um (CMHAM) last month.

Those were the two words used by At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie to de­scribe his first days in of­fice yes­ter­day, as he claimed the bud­getary al­lo­ca­tion for le­gal fees for this fis­cal year has al­ready been spent out by the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe and At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie have raised an ear­ly alarm over a com­bined $570 mil­lion in un­paid debts for the two min­istries left by the pre­vi­ous ad­min­is­tra­tion—funds owed to drug sup­pli­ers, main­te­nance con­trac­tors, and at­tor­neys, which they are now bur­dened to clear.