The Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty Cli­mate Change Cen­tre (CC­C­CC) has ap­point­ed Mans­field Black­wood as its new As­sis­tant Ex­ec­u­tive Di­rec­tor.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Mort­gage Bank Lim­it­ed (TTMB) and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPSS­WA) have signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing (MOU) to ex­pand ac­cess to hous­ing, fi­nan­cial lit­er­a­cy, and in­vest­ment op­por­tu­ni­ties for mem­bers of the Po­lice Ser­vice.

The ANSA McAL Group has in­tro­duced Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence across its Hu­man Re­sources ecosys­tem, be­com­ing the first large-scale en­ter­prise based in the Eng­lish-speak­ing Caribbean to do so.

The way has been cleared for the Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion to host its ex­ec­u­tive elec­tions.

Venezue­lans are fa­mil­iar with hard­ship — they have lived un­der a com­plex so­cial, eco­nom­ic and po­lit­i­cal cri­sis for more than a decade. Now, across the South Amer­i­can coun­try, they are find­ing them­selves hun­gry and un­able to buy food.

The St. Vin­cent and the Grenadines gov­ern­ment says it hopes ‘per­sua­sion’ will be ef­fec­tive as it seeks to vac­ci­nate 90 per cent of the girls aged 15 and un­der against the hu­man pa­pil­lo­mavirus (HPV) by 2030.

Short­ly af­ter all mo­torists were grant­ed ac­cess to the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route on Wednes­day morn­ing, that ac­cess has been re­voked to al­low for nor­mal op­er­a­tions on the PBR.

Steep U.S. tar­iffs on a range of In­di­an prod­ucts took ef­fect Wednes­day, threat­en­ing a se­ri­ous blow to In­dia’s over­seas trade in its largest ex­port mar­ket.

In­de­pen­dence Day in T&T can of­ten throw up some sur­pris­es, like the oc­ca­sions of the coun­try’s 40th an­niver­sary and 50th an­niver­sary.

A prison of­fi­cer with al­leged links to mur­der ac­cused Ra­jaee Ali, is one of the lat­est peo­ple to have a de­ten­tion or­der is­sued against him un­der the State of Emer­gency.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has fi­nal­ly bro­ken his si­lence on the al­leged threat against his life.

Sources in the De­fence Force say the pres­ence of US Naval ships in the Caribbean Sea was not dis­cussed dur­ing a meet­ing on Mon­day in­volv­ing se­nior mil­i­tary of­fi­cials. Sources, who asked not to be named, said the meet­ing was lim­it­ed to “do­mes­tic af­fairs” on­ly.