A to­tal of 95 Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic na­tion­als, 89 men and six women, were repa­tri­at­ed from the Unit­ed States af­ter com­plet­ing prison sen­tences or le­gal pro­ceed­ings for var­i­ous of­fences.

Po­lice be­lieve the same man was be­hind two rob­beries re­port­ed just hours apart on Tues­day morn­ing in Cunu­pia.

A 41-year-old man is in po­lice cus­tody af­ter a fight on Tu­na­puna Road left an­oth­er man nurs­ing a stab wound to the chest on Tues­day af­ter­noon.

A 43-year-old woman is re­cov­er­ing in hos­pi­tal af­ter gun­men pre­tend­ing to be po­lice of­fi­cers shot her in her sleep ear­ly Wednes­day morn­ing.

A se­cu­ri­ty guard who claimed he was tied up dur­ing a rob­bery at his work­place in Cou­va has been ar­rest­ed af­ter po­lice un­cov­ered he al­leged­ly helped plan the heist.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says clean-up ef­forts are al­ready un­der­way af­ter thick sar­gas­sum sea­weed washed ashore on some of the is­land’s most pop­u­lar beach­es yes­ter­day.

Ukraine’s prime min­is­ter an­nounced his res­ig­na­tion Tues­day in the first for­mal step of what is ex­pect­ed to be a sig­nif­i­cant reshuf­fle of Pres­i­dent Volodymyr Ze­len­skyy’s gov­ern­ment, which could al­so see the coun­try’s am­bas­sador to Wash­ing­ton re­placed.

The Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme Com­pa­ny (CEPEP) has claimed that its for­mer board was de­ceived in­to con­tro­ver­sial­ly re­new­ing the con­tracts of over 300 con­trac­tors days be­fore the gen­er­al elec­tion on April 28. The com­pa­ny said the re­newals were based on a fraud­u­lent mis­rep­re­sen­ta­tion that the ac­tion was ap­proved by the then-Cab­i­net. 

As thou­sands of Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) work­ers re­main in lim­bo over the fu­ture of their jobs, cur­rent and for­mer Pub­lic Util­i­ties min­is­ters Bar­ry Padarath and Mar­vin Gon­za­les con­tin­ue to trade blame over the award­ing of CEPEP con­tracts.

Two for­mer min­is­ters of en­er­gy be­lieve that while it’s not detri­men­tal to have a non-ex­pert lead­ing the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny, Ger­ald Ramdeen must quick­ly learn the in­dus­try and un­der­stand the weight of the task ahead, as NGC is the coun­try’s pri­ma­ry en­er­gy earn­er.

At­tor­ney Prakash Ra­mad­har says the new board at Paria Fu­el Trad­ing has raised hopes that a set­tle­ment will be of­fered to the griev­ing rel­a­tives and sur­vivors of the 2022 in­ci­dent.

The Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment has ap­point­ed Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress na­tion­al cam­paign man­ag­er Feeroze Khan as the new pro­gramme man­ag­er of the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP).