Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has praised Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar for her han­dling of is­sues at last week’s Cari­com Heads of Gov­ern­ment meet­ing in St Kitts and Nevis, call­ing her ap­proach “prin­ci­pled” and sug­gest­ing she “has more balls” than her male coun­ter­parts in the re­gion.

Ac­tivist Nafeesa Mo­hammed is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to meet with lead­ers of the Mus­lim com­mu­ni­ty ahead of her up­com­ing meet­ing with Don­ald Trump, fol­low­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s with­draw­al of sup­port for Is­rael in its con­flict with Iran.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) will not pro­pose pro­vi­sions for se­ces­sion in its push for greater au­ton­o­my. How­ev­er, he made it clear that if pub­lic con­sul­ta­tions re­veal sup­port for in­clud­ing such an op­tion, To­bag­o­ni­ans “will get what they want.”

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has praised Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar for hav­ing “more balls” than her male Cari­com coun­ter­parts, cit­ing her han­dling of re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty and geopo­lit­i­cal de­vel­op­ments dis­cussed at last week’s Cari­com Heads of Gov­ern­ment meet­ing in St Kitts and Nevis.

San­ju Sam­son pro­duced one of In­dia’s great­est ever bat­ting per­for­mances at a T20 World Cup to pow­er his side to a clin­i­cal five-wick­et vic­to­ry over West In­dies and keep their hopes of de­fend­ing their ti­tle alive.

Cari­com gov­ern­ments have urged re­straint and diplo­ma­cy fol­low­ing the es­ca­la­tion of hos­til­i­ties in the Mid­dle East, as Trinidad and To­ba­go sig­nalled sup­port for the Unit­ed States’ mil­i­tary ac­tion against Iran.

Crews from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) work along­side tech­ni­cal staff at the South West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) to­day to re­store elec­tric­i­ty to sec­tions of the new wing of the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal near the Ac­ci­dent and Emer­gency De­part­ment af­ter an elec­tri­cal break­er fails, plung­ing parts of the fa­cil­i­ty in­to dark­ness.

The Gov­ern­ment has come out in full sup­port of the Unit­ed States at­tack on Iran yes­ter­day, which, ac­cord­ing to Is­rael and US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, left Iran’s Supreme Leader dead.

An­gos­tu­ra Hold­ings Ltd’s deputy chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer, Rahim Mo­hammed, has been sent on paid ad­min­is­tra­tive leave pend­ing the out­come of a probe.

The State’s file on firearms deal­er Brent Thomas, lodged at the for­mer Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty (now Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty), has gone miss­ing.

Last week, Guardian Me­dia In­ves­ti­ga­tions Desk ex­am­ined the Gov­ern­ment’s re­cruit­ment dri­ve through Em­ployTT.

Khan said she and her now de­ceased hus­band cut bush by hand, plant­ed crops and sold what they grew.