Today is May 28, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Illawarra Mercury. In today’s update, the NRL has declared St George Illawarra Dragons player Jack de Belin will be eligible to play for the remainder of the 2021 season when charges against him are formally withdrawn, and member for Whitlam Stephen Jones says there are now 500 fewer apprentices in his electorate than when Labor was last in government.