Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a re­port that four masked men in cam­ou­flage robbed two Mal­oney men and es­caped in what ap­peared to be a marked Reg­i­ment ve­hi­cle.

Venezue­lan op­po­si­tion leader María Co­ri­na Macha­do will miss the cer­e­mo­ny to award her the No­bel Peace Prize in Oslo on Wednes­day, the head of the Nor­we­gian No­bel In­sti­tute said.

In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor Dr De­sirée Mur­ray ab­stained and was the lone per­son on the in­de­pen­dent bench not to sup­port the Bill.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the US$2.5 mil­lion ran­som re­quest by the kid­nap­pers of cou­ple Der­rick and Clari­bel Tardieu is “fishy”.

Up­roar broke out in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives yes­ter­day af­ter the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ac­cused Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der of fail­ing to an­swer ques­tions on se­cu­ri­ty fol­low­ing the re­cent kid­nap­ping of Monos Is­land res­i­dents Der­rick and Clari­bel Tardieu.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the ves­sel at the cen­tre of the Unit­ed States’ “dou­ble tap” con­tro­ver­sy may not have been fly­ing a flag and was there­fore treat­ed as a pi­rate ves­sel.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she will “con­sid­er” giv­ing the Chief Sec­re­tary of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) a per­ma­nent seat on the Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil (NSC).

In­ter­na­tion­al Air Trans­port As­so­ci­a­tion (IA­TA) di­rec­tor gen­er­al Willie Walsh says the use of air­space as an eco­nom­ic and po­lit­i­cal weapon is “in­ap­pro­pri­ate” and “un­ac­cept­able.”

Chief Sec­re­tary and To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) po­lit­i­cal leader Far­ley Au­gus­tine says he was sur­prised by Wat­son Duke’s de­ci­sion to pub­licly en­dorse the TPP ahead of the Jan­u­ary 12 THA elec­tion, but he wel­comes the sup­port.

PDP leader Wat­son Duke’s an­nounce­ment that he will sup­port the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) for the up­com­ing THA elec­tions has drawn mixed re­ac­tions in the Rox­bor­ough/Ar­gyle dis­trict he rep­re­sents. Most of the res­i­dents there wel­comed the de­ci­sion, while oth­ers be­lieve Duke tar­nished his own cred­i­bil­i­ty long be­fore re­turn­ing to Far­ley Au­gus­tine’s cor­ner.

The Sum­ma­ry Of­fences (Amend­ment) Bill, which has been called the Fire­works Bill, was passed unan­i­mous­ly in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives yes­ter­day with amend­ments pro­posed by the Op­po­si­tion, in a re­newed spir­it of ca­ma­raderie rarely seen across the aisles.

Scores of bar own­ers gath­ered at Wood­ford Square yes­ter­day, just be­fore Par­lia­ment con­vened, ac­cus­ing the Fi­nance Min­is­ter of vic­tim­i­sa­tion over a pro­posed Amuse­ment Gam­ing Tax Bill that they say could crip­ple small and medi­um-sized bars and force wide­spread clo­sures.