Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has laud­ed the ac­tions of po­lice of­fi­cers in res­cu­ing kid­napped CAL pi­lot Daniel Kawall, as he warned crim­i­nals that of­fi­cers would de­fend them­selves with lethal force if nec­es­sary.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo is dis­miss­ing calls to de­val­ue the Trinidad and To­ba­go dol­lar, warn­ing that such a move would do more harm than good to the na­tion­al econ­o­my.

Sev­er­al econ­o­mists are say­ing it would be a dan­ger­ous move for this coun­try’s econ­o­my to raise the ex­change rate of the US dol­lar from TT$6.79 to TT$9. They say such an ad­just­ment, with­out solv­ing struc­tur­al eco­nom­ic is­sues in Trinidad and To­ba­go, will not au­gur well.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says face-to-face talks are ex­pect­ed to take place with the Unit­ed States lat­er this month, af­ter the US ac­knowl­edged her “pub­lic sup­port” of its mil­i­tary op­er­a­tions.

Miss Grand T&T 2025 win­ner Tama­ra Per­sad is claim­ing she has been un­cer­e­mo­ni­ous­ly stripped of her ti­tle and re­placed by the sec­ond run­ner-up.

Par­lia­ment's mid-year re­cess ends on Fri­day, when the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives (HOR) re­sumes with de­bate on the Con­sti­tu­tion­al Amend­ment bill, which will al­low cit­i­zen­ship for ath­letes whose grand­par­ents were born in T&T.

De­spite the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) get­ting set to host con­sul­ta­tions on the pro­posed stand-your-ground leg­is­la­tion next week, the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al says the Bill will be brought be­fore Par­lia­ment be­fore the year’s end.

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Dr Amery Browne is dis­miss­ing as “woe­ful­ly in­ad­e­quate and pa­thet­ic” For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers’ ex­pla­na­tion about “ap­pro­pri­ate” T&T rep­re­sen­ta­tion at the Africa-Cari­com Sum­mit in Ethiopia last week­end.

The Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter is call­ing for a full re­port from the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA), af­ter hun­dreds of com­muters and mo­torists from South, Cen­tral, and East Trinidad were stuck in traf­fic for hours yes­ter­day morn­ing, as the au­thor­i­ty re­paired a rup­tured pipeline along the west­bound lane of the Beetham High­way.

With Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar de­clar­ing that nar­co-traf­fick­ers should be “killed vi­o­lent­ly” by the US mil­i­tary, THA Mi­nor­i­ty Leader and fish­er­folk are now ques­tion­ing the deaf­en­ing si­lence of Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine re­gard­ing To­ba­go’s stance.

A cloth­ing re­tail­er from Pe­nal has agreed to have its ship­ment of over 8,000 im­i­ta­tion slip­pers de­stroyed.

The State has been or­dered to pay over $100,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a woman who was pros­e­cut­ed for mar­i­jua­na pos­ses­sion as a teenag­er.