The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) will on­ly be af­ford­ed six Op­po­si­tion mem­bers in the Sen­ate.

Se­cu­ri­ty ex­perts say the cost to the tax­pay­er is sig­nif­i­cant­ly low­er when the Prime Min­is­ter works from a pri­vate res­i­dence rather than an of­fi­cial res­i­dence.

For­mer jour­nal­ist and In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor, who is al­so Di­rec­tor of the Lloyd Best In­sti­tute, Suni­ty Ma­haraj, is ar­gu­ing that it is left to be seen what im­pact for­mer trade union lead­ers who now have min­is­te­r­i­al po­si­tions in the new Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment will have.

The Car­ni­val fra­ter­ni­ty is mourn­ing the death of promi­nent South mas mak­er and Car­ni­val Queen Wendy Kalicha­ran. 

The 12-day mil­i­tary train­ing pro­gramme known as Tradewinds mil­i­tary ex­er­cis­es end­ed yes­ter­day with US Ad­mi­ral Alvin Hosley, Com­man­der of the US South­ern Com­mand, in­still­ing the im­por­tance of such ex­er­cis­es. 

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

De­spite Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s un­prece­dent­ed de­ci­sion to ap­point three min­is­ters to the Min­istry of Hous­ing, po­lit­i­cal ex­perts say it is with­in her man­date to or­gan­ise her Gov­ern­ment as she sees fit.

The Ro­man Catholic Church has emerged vic­to­ri­ous in a lengthy le­gal bat­tle with a fam­i­ly over con­trol of a prop­er­ty on Monos Is­land used for its sea scout­ing ac­tiv­i­ties.

Ban­dits tied up a 90-year-old man and his rel­a­tives, forc­ing them to lie on the floor, dur­ing a vi­o­lent home in­va­sion in Ca­roni on Wednes­day.  

The In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF) has praised Ja­maica for its strong eco­nom­ic man­age­ment and re­silience fol­low­ing its 2025 Ar­ti­cle IV Con­sul­ta­tion, but is warn­ing of glob­al and cli­mate risks.

Wendy Kalicha­ran, a lead­ing fig­ure in San Fer­nan­do’s car­ni­val, has died af­ter a pro­longed ill­ness.

In a state­ment on Face­book on Thurs­day, the NTA said, “This de­ci­sion, though deeply sig­nif­i­cant, was made with thought­ful re­flec­tion and in the spir­it of ac­count­abil­i­ty and in­tegri­ty that has al­ways guid­ed the NTA’s lead­er­ship.”