Plan­ning Min­is­ter Dr Kennedy Swarats­ingh met with Is­rael’s Am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go, Mat­tanya Co­hen, and MASHAV Di­rec­tor Gen­er­al Am­bas­sador Ey­nat Shlein on Wednes­day to dis­cuss ex­pand­ing bi­lat­er­al co­op­er­a­tion on mod­ern agri­cul­ture, ed­u­ca­tion, cy­ber­se­cu­ri­ty, smart cities, cli­mate re­silience and in­sti­tu­tion­al ca­pac­i­ty build­ing.

A de­ci­sion by the Salaries Re­view Com­mis­sion (SRC) to rec­om­mend a re­duc­tion in the salaries of the next Di­rec­tor and Deputy Di­rec­tor of the Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) has been up­held.

Ban­dits stole more than $6,000 worth of food items from a de­liv­ery truck parked out­side One Wood­brook Place, Wood­brook, on Tues­day af­ter­noon.

CON­CA­CAF has ex­pressed con­cern over FI­FA's pro­posed FI­FA For­ward En­ter­prise, say­ing it learned about the ini­tia­tive through me­dia re­ports rather than through of­fi­cial gov­er­nance chan­nels.

Flow Trinidad has re­turned for a fifth con­sec­u­tive year as the Plat­inum Spon­sor of The Shel­ter for Bat­tered Women and Chil­dren's An­nu­al Char­i­ty Golf Tour­na­ment, con­tin­u­ing its sup­port for pro­grammes that as­sist women and chil­dren af­fect­ed by do­mes­tic vi­o­lence.

For­mer West In­dies cap­tain Bri­an Lara has called on crick­et au­thor­i­ties to es­tab­lish a Sir Garfield Sobers Ini­tia­tive to in­spire a re­vival of re­gion­al crick­et, de­scrib­ing it as the most fit­ting trib­ute to the man wide­ly re­gard­ed as the great­est all-rounder the game has ever pro­duced.

A po­lice of­fi­cer was shot dead and his li­censed firearm stolen dur­ing a sus­pect­ed rob­bery in Kel­ly Vil­lage, Ca­roni, late on Tues­day, while one of the al­leged at­tack­ers was al­so killed af­ter be­ing shot dur­ing the con­fronta­tion.

The Min­istry of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices has marked a mile­stone with its 40th Dis­as­ter Re­lief and Home Re­pair Grant Dis­tri­b­u­tion, pro­vid­ing fi­nan­cial as­sis­tance to 70 house­holds in the Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co and Ari­ma re­gions.

En­er­gy co­op­er­a­tion, in­vest­ment op­por­tu­ni­ties and eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment were among the key is­sues dis­cussed when se­nior gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials met with rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Unit­ed States Em­bassy in Port-of-Spain ear­li­er this week.

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed, his wife Genevieve, and her 69-year-old aunt Star Sab­ga have stat­ed that they are not wag­ing a war against the Gov­ern­ment and are on­ly seek­ing to re­store their rep­u­ta­tions. 

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of hypocrisy, claim­ing that while she now con­demns racial at­tacks and big­otry, she pre­vi­ous­ly di­rect­ed sim­i­lar re­marks at him when she was Op­po­si­tion Leader.

Calami­ty was avert­ed at the Scar­bor­ough Port on Mon­day night af­ter a run­away truck, loaded with con­crete blocks, al­most crashed in­to a car with a woman seat­ed in­side. The dra­ma un­fold­ed around 10.30 pm as ramp is­sues aboard the MV Gold­en Car­ri­er car­go ves­sel caused dam­age to at least three ve­hi­cles as they at­tempt­ed to dis­em­bark.