The U.S. gov­ern­ment on Thurs­day an­nounced sanc­tions against Cu­ba’s state-owned oil and gas com­pa­ny in a move some ex­perts say will on­ly deep­en the is­land’s crises and hit vul­ner­a­ble Cubans the hard­est.

Two fe­male pen­sion­ers were robbed by bal­a­cla­va-clad ban­dits dur­ing a home in­va­sion in Princes Town on Wednes­day night.

The largest World Cup in tour­na­ment his­to­ry kicked off Thurs­day with co-host Mex­i­co tak­ing on South Africa in the open­ing match.

The Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA) has trained 18 peo­ple from 15 Mem­ber States to safe­ly trans­port in­fec­tious sub­stances and di­ag­nos­tic spec­i­mens across the re­gion.

A 25-year-old man from Las Lo­mas, who stabbed his preg­nant moth­er to death in 2019 be­cause he was an­gry over be­ing ne­glect­ed as a child, will have to serve al­most a decade longer in prison be­fore he is re­leased.

Gov­ern­ment's $2.93 bil­lion in sup­ple­men­tal funds for 27 di­vi­sions for the rest of the fis­cal year in­cludes $5 mil­lion for the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice to meet costs in­curred for rental of ad­di­tion­al ve­hi­cles for "as­sign­ment to spe­cial­ist sec­tions to be used in covert op­er­a­tions dur­ing the present" State of Emer­gency.

El Ni­no, Na­ture’s chaot­ic cli­mate agent, has formed in a warmed-up Pa­cif­ic Ocean and is ex­pect­ed to grow to his­toric strength, me­te­o­rol­o­gists an­nounced Thurs­day.

Ra­heem Stephens has been com­mit­ted to stand tri­al for al­leged­ly stab­bing a man dur­ing Bor­ough Day cel­e­bra­tions in Point Fortin last year.

The State of Emer­gency (SoE) has been ex­tend­ed un­til Sep­tem­ber af­ter the Gov­ern­ment se­cured a ma­jor­i­ty vote in Par­lia­ment short­ly af­ter mid­night on Thurs­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has de­fend­ed the Gov­ern­ment’s use of emer­gency pow­ers, in­sist­ing that re­stric­tions im­posed un­der the State of Emer­gency (SoE), in­clud­ing the con­tro­ver­sial 500-me­tre no-protest zones, are law­ful, con­sti­tu­tion­al and nec­es­sary to pro­tect na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty.

To­ba­go East MP David Thomas has de­clared that To­ba­go’s par­lia­men­tary rep­re­sen­ta­tives are ful­ly be­hind the Gov­ern­ment’s ex­ten­sion of the State of Emer­gency (SoE), de­scrib­ing them­selves as part of the ad­min­is­tra­tion and ar­gu­ing that emer­gency pow­ers re­main nec­es­sary to bring crime un­der con­trol.

Op­po­si­tion Chief Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to im­me­di­ate­ly end the State of Emer­gency (SoE), present a cred­i­ble crime-fight­ing strat­e­gy or step aside, de­scrib­ing the mea­sure as a “na­tion­al sham” and a “po­lit­i­cal hoax” on the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go.