A man has been sen­tenced to a lit­tle over three years in prison af­ter ad­mit­ting to sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ing a woman dur­ing a home in­va­sion in 2017.

A for­mer em­ploy­ee of ANSA Bank at the cen­tre of a $30 mil­lion fraud­u­lent loan con­spir­a­cy, which in­volves a group of for­eign used car deal­ers, has been or­dered to re­pay more than half the mon­ey the bank was de­fraud­ed of.

A wide cross sec­tion of cit­i­zens, in­clud­ing Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) per­son­al­i­ties and top mem­bers of oth­er po­lit­i­cal par­ties, are ex­pect­ed to at­tend this af­ter­noon’s fu­ner­al of PNM and ONR foun­da­tion mem­ber Fer­di­nand “Fer­die” Fer­reira.

Search op­er­a­tions are con­tin­u­ing for 49-year-old Paul Cam­po, who went miss­ing dur­ing a hunt­ing ex­pe­di­tion in the Guayagua­yare for­est on Sat­ur­day.

The Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO) said Mon­day it has launched the new HEARTS Qual­i­ty Frame­work, which it says coun­tries can use im­me­di­ate­ly to en­hance hy­per­ten­sion and car­dio­vas­cu­lar risk man­age­ment, pre­vent heart at­tacks and strokes, and de­liv­er bet­ter care through pri­ma­ry health care clos­er to peo­ple’s homes.

The Venezue­lan Gov­ern­ment has is­sued a state­ment de­nounc­ing the di­rect par­tic­i­pa­tion of the Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go in col­lu­sion with the US ad­min­is­tra­tion, call­ing it an act of "pira­cy" that re­sult­ed in the theft of Venezue­lan oil.

Do­mini­ca’s Prime Min­is­ter Roo­sevelt Sker­rit said Mon­day that his coun­try is pre­pared to act as a me­di­a­tor in the cur­rent con­flict be­tween the Unit­ed States and Venezuela, re­it­er­at­ing that the Caribbean re­gion should al­ways be a zone of peace.

Rus­sia has in­di­cat­ed it is open to Ukraine join­ing the Eu­ro­pean Union as part of a po­ten­tial peace deal aimed at end­ing Rus­sia’s war on Ukraine, and there’s now con­sen­sus on about 90% of the U.S.-au­thored peace plan, U.S. of­fi­cials said Mon­day.

A dri­ve-by shoot­ing along Ari­api­ta Av­enue in Wood­brook on Sun­day night has claimed the life of one man.

The Gov­ern­ment has grant­ed ap­proval for Unit­ed States mil­i­tary air­craft to tran­sit through the coun­try’s air­ports in the com­ing weeks.

Aus­tralian fed­er­al and state gov­ern­ment lead­ers on Mon­day agreed to im­me­di­ate­ly over­haul al­ready-tough na­tion­al gun con­trol laws af­ter a mass shoot­ing tar­get­ed a Hanukkah cel­e­bra­tion on Syd­ney’s Bon­di Beach, leav­ing at least 15 peo­ple dead.

A shoot­ing Sat­ur­day at Brown Uni­ver­si­ty in Prov­i­dence, Rhode Is­land, left two peo­ple dead and at least eight oth­er crit­i­cal­ly in­jured. Au­thor­i­ties were still search­ing for a sus­pect in the hours af­ter­ward.