The U.S. gov­ern­ment has banned Amer­i­can gov­ern­ment per­son­nel in Chi­na, as well as fam­i­ly mem­bers and con­trac­tors with se­cu­ri­ty clear­ances, from any ro­man­tic or sex­u­al re­la­tion­ships with Chi­nese cit­i­zens, The As­so­ci­at­ed Press has learned.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr. Ter­rance Drew says the Third Fo­rum on Hu­man Rights De­fend­ers in En­vi­ron­men­tal Mat­ters in Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean which is be­ing held in an Eng­lish-speak­ing Caribbean coun­try rep­re­sents more than a meet­ing of minds, but rather, a meet­ing of pur­pose.

Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the To­ba­go Coun­cil of the PNM, An­cil Den­nis, be­lieves a leaked record­ing—al­leged­ly fea­tur­ing Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine and UNC Po­lit­i­cal Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar—con­firms his long-held sus­pi­cion that there was a de­lib­er­ate plot to de­stroy To­ba­go’s con­struc­tion sec­tor.

A 39-year-old Bel­mont man has been grant­ed $650,000 bail af­ter be­ing charged with two counts of pos­ses­sion of stolen ve­hi­cles.

Fac­ing a glob­al mar­ket melt­down, Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump on Wednes­day abrupt­ly backed down on his tar­iffs on most na­tions for 90 days but raised his tax rate on Chi­nese im­ports to 125%.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Deputy Chief Sec­re­tary Dr Faith Breb­nor has won her le­gal chal­lenge against the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice over a search war­rant is­sued dur­ing an al­leged fraud in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to her and oth­er THA mem­bers.

Lee de­scribed both Mon­day and Tues­day as great days for him, re­fer­ring to his court case vic­to­ry. He said, “Row­ley… sent a boy to do a man’s job. He put his Gar­ry Sobers called Stu­art Young, and since he be­came PM there’s noth­ing—the walls are crum­bling on the PNM ad­min­is­tra­tion. There’s noth­ing Young has done over the last few days as PM that’s work­ing. He should just give up and go home!”

The Op­po­si­tion Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) claimed vin­di­ca­tion af­ter years of warn­ing the PNM Gov­ern­ment against “get­ting in bed” with the Maduro ad­min­is­tra­tion on en­er­gy deals. The re­vo­ca­tion of li­cences by the US for the Drag­on Gas and Cocuina Man­akin fields has, ac­cord­ing to the UNC, left for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Kei­th Row­ley and cur­rent Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young’s “cuck­oo cooked.”

A 29-year-old labour­er was fa­tal­ly shot in St. Mar­garet’s Vil­lage, Clax­ton Bay, on Tues­day night just a short dis­tance from the po­lice sta­tion.

PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil po­lit­i­cal leader An­cil Den­nis has con­demned crit­ics of the now-col­lapsed Drag­on gas deal, call­ing them “id­iots” and warn­ing that the con­se­quences will af­fect every cit­i­zen—not just the gov­ern­ment.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says the col­lapse of the Drag­on gas deal is the re­sult of years of “mis­man­age­ment and poor plan­ning” by the PNM Gov­ern­ment, and a warn­ing sign that Trinidad and To­ba­go ur­gent­ly needs to di­ver­si­fy its econ­o­my.

World shares are slump­ing again on Wednes­day af­ter U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s lat­est tar­iff hikes took ef­fect and he threat­ened to add still more. Chi­na an­nounced coun­ter­mea­sures, say­ing it will raise its re­tal­ia­to­ry tar­iff on the U.S. to 84%, up from 34%, ef­fec­tive April 10.