The Gov­ern­ment is giv­ing the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) a fi­nal two-week ex­ten­sion to re­spond to its of­fer to set­tle out­stand­ing wage ne­go­ti­a­tions for 2014–2016 and 2017–2019, while main­tain­ing that the pro­pos­al it­self will not change.

Mor­vant res­i­dents say while they are not par­tic­u­lar­ly shak­en or fear­ful, they are an­tic­i­pat­ing more vi­o­lence af­ter three men were killed in sep­a­rate in­stances in dif­fer­ent parts of the com­mu­ni­ty on Tues­day.

With schools now re­opened, the TTPS Cy­ber Crime and So­cial Me­dia Unit is urg­ing stu­dents to be cau­tious about what they post on­line to re­duce the risk of be­ing tar­get­ed by pae­dophiles.

Op­po­si­tion Leader and PNM Po­lit­i­cal Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has dis­missed sug­ges­tions that her par­lia­men­tary bench is frac­tured ahead of to­mor­row’s re­sump­tion of Par­lia­ment, de­spite the on­go­ing in­ter­nal dis­pute in­volv­ing San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning.

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr Shane Mo­hammed be­lieves re­cent moves by San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning could sig­nal an at­tempt to force changes with­in the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), while leav­ing open the pos­si­bil­i­ty of a fu­ture lead­er­ship bid.

Frus­tra­tion spilled in­to the streets yes­ter­day as res­i­dents of Kan­hai Road North, Bar­rack­pore, de­mand­ed ur­gent re­pairs to a road they said had been ne­glect­ed for decades.

An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Prime Min­is­ter Gas­ton Browne has thrown his sup­port be­hind Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s tough stance on vi­o­lent and dis­rup­tive stu­dents, sug­gest­ing at­ten­tion should in­stead be placed on par­ents who are “rais­ing crim­i­nals” in their homes.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe says the Gov­ern­ment is in dis­cus­sions with the In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank (IDB) on an in­te­grat­ed health ser­vices pro­gramme that could see the wide­spread digi­ti­sa­tion of pa­tient health records.

U.S. Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio gave new clar­i­ty Wednes­day on the U.S. ap­proach to­ward com­bat­ing drug traf­fick­ing in Latin Amer­i­can wa­ters, say­ing the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion is now fo­cused on work­ing with al­lied coun­tries and align­ing with their laws but in­sist­ing that the mil­i­tary will “still blow up ships if need be.”

Eigh­teen for­eign na­tion­als were in­ter­cept­ed by po­lice dur­ing a coastal se­cu­ri­ty op­er­a­tion in Ch­aguara­mas ear­ly Wednes­day morn­ing.

The Do­mini­ca gov­ern­ment con­firmed on Wednes­day that five Colom­bian na­tion­als de­port­ed by the Unit­ed States un­der the third coun­try na­tion­als pro­gramme have since re­turned to their coun­try.

Three of­fi­cers were pro­mot­ed to As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice and five to Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent of Po­lice at a cer­e­mo­ny at the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing on Wednes­day.