Even as Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar firm­ly stat­ed that Trinidad and To­ba­go will not be used as a launch­pad for at­tacks against Venezuela, one in­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions ex­pert has ques­tioned the tim­ing of joint mil­i­tary train­ing ex­er­cis­es.

The on­go­ing mil­i­tary train­ing ex­er­cise be­tween the US Marines and the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force (TTDF) does not com­pro­mise T&T’s sov­er­eign­ty, says pres­i­dent of the Greater San Fer­nan­do Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce, Ki­ran Singh.

San Fer­nan­do can­not prop­er­ly cel­e­brate City Week un­less the grow­ing home­less pop­u­la­tion is ad­dressed and ur­gent sup­port is pro­vid­ed to shel­ters that serve the city, Al­der­man Vil­liana Ra­moutars­ingh said yes­ter­day.

T&T na­tion­als strand­ed in camps in Syr­ia are grow­ing in­creas­ing­ly frus­trat­ed as months pass with­out clear ac­tion from a gov­ern­ment-ap­point­ed in­ter-min­is­te­r­i­al com­mit­tee tasked with fa­cil­i­tat­ing their re­turn.

With his life up­end­ed by the death of his wife in a fa­tal road ac­ci­dent, a griev­ing hus­band is plead­ing for in­creased po­lice pa­trols to curb the grow­ing num­ber of deaths along the Solomon Ho­choy High­way.

A man from Cou­va, who shot and killed a man af­ter he (the vic­tim) threat­ened his part­ner and her fa­ther, has been sen­tenced to 14 years in prison.

A 32-year-old man from Ari­ma has been ac­quit­ted of mur­der­ing an Arou­ca busi­ness­man in 2021.

A pris­on­er who es­caped from the Car­rera Con­vict Prison last Fri­day was re­cap­tured along the West­ern Main Road on Mon­day.

A 16-year-old stu­dent of the Va­len­cia Sec­ondary School is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear in court to­day, charged with mar­i­jua­na pos­ses­sion and pos­ses­sion of a weapon.

More than sim­ply pro­vid­ing a pres­ence in com­mu­ni­ties with height­ened num­bers and vis­i­bil­i­ty, Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der is call­ing on new­ly mint­ed po­lice of­fi­cers to up­hold the prin­ci­ples of the TTPS by serv­ing their com­mu­ni­ties with re­spect and dig­ni­ty.

Ja­maica’s Wa­ter, En­vi­ron­ment and Cli­mate Change Min­is­ter Matthew Samu­da took a swing at the new­ly es­tab­lished Loss and Dam­age Fund dur­ing COP30 this week, crit­i­cis­ing what he con­sid­ered its in­ad­e­qua­cy.

Min­is­ter of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs, and De­vel­op­ment, Kennedy Swarats­ingh, says am­bi­tion alone is not enough in the cli­mate fight, and the world must now look to­wards im­ple­men­ta­tion. Swarats­ingh made the com­ment as he de­liv­ered his na­tion­al state­ment at the Unit­ed Na­tions Cli­mate Change Con­fer­ence in Belem, Brazil, yes­ter­day.