The in­ci­dent oc­curred around 10.30 am at the bas­ket­ball court in John John, Quar­ry Road, Laven­tille.

Res­i­dents of Mt D'or are set to get a boost in their wa­ter sup­ply in the com­ing weeks af­ter a promise by the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty’s (WASA) act­ing Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer, Jee­van Joseph, to pro­cure a new pump for the area.

For­mer Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly pres­i­dent and Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­al Den­nis Fran­cis is call­ing for ur­gent re­form of the UN Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil, warn­ing that its struc­tur­al in­ad­e­qua­cies have fu­elled in­ac­tion in the face of hu­man­i­tar­i­an crises world­wide.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) says it is now wait­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to fi­nalise the 2020 to 2023 salary set­tle­ment for teach­ers.

The Pales­tin­ian gov­ern­ment has is­sued a state­ment pledg­ing to im­ple­ment re­forms called for in the pro­posed plan for peace in Gaza sub­mit­ted by U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump.

The Po­lice Ser­vice is re­port­ing that the aer­i­al de­liv­ery of pro­hib­it­ed items in­to the Arou­ca Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison was suc­cess­ful­ly pre­vent­ed, thanks to a “co­or­di­nat­ed, in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion be­tween 7:00 pm on Sun­day and 5:45 am to­day.”

To­ba­go po­lice say the new School Ori­ent­ed Polic­ing Unit is run­ning smooth­ly and is not a bur­den on of­fi­cers at the To­ba­go Po­lice Di­vi­sion.

Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (DCP) Suzette Mar­tin said the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has tak­en note of videos cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia in which a serv­ing of­fi­cer made pub­lic state­ments that have drawn sig­nif­i­cant at­ten­tion.

U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump and Is­raeli Prime Min­is­ter Ben­jamin Ne­tanyahu said Mon­day they’ve agreed to a plan to end the war in Gaza, but it’s un­clear whether Hamas will ac­cept the terms.

Much re­mains un­known about U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s 21-point peace plan for Gaza. But one dif­fer­ence stands out from pre­vi­ous cease­fire pro­pos­als: For the first time, it tries to out­line the key ques­tion of how the ter­ri­to­ry will be ruled af­ter the war.

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers says time con­straints, and not diplo­mat­ic ten­sions, is the rea­son why Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar did not hold any bi­lat­er­al meet­ings with Cari­com lead­ers dur­ing the UN Gen­er­al As­sem­bly last week.

The Grena­da gov­ern­ment has an­nounced what it termed “im­por­tant changes” to the Cuban Work­ers Pro­gramme fol­low­ing a re­quest made by the Unit­ed States to re­view the pro­gramme.