Workers at Multi-Purpose Security Service are threatening to commence prolonged strike action “soon”.

The public will have to wait another week to find out who will lead the Carnival Development Committee (CDC) after Minister of Culture Eleston “Namba” Adams failed to deliver on a commitment to name the members of the board yesterday.

A John Hughes resident is lucky to be alive after problems with the brakes on his truck reportedly caused the vehicle to spin out of control and flip over several times, taking out a fence and barely missing a wooden home in the process.

Chairman of the Leeward Islands Airline Pilots Association (LIALPA) Captain Michael Blackburn is calling on LIAT’s management to fully implement by September 15 an arbitration ruling handed down almost two months ago.