Gov­ern­ments of 12 coun­tries whose cit­i­zens will be banned from vis­it­ing the Unit­ed States be­gin­ning next week scram­bled Thurs­day to un­der­stand Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s lat­est move to res­ur­rect a hall­mark pol­i­cy of his first term.

The U.N. food agency is ap­peal­ing for $46 mil­lion for the next six months to help about 2 mil­lion Haitians in dire need of food, in­clud­ing 8,500 at the worst cat­a­stroph­ic lev­el of hunger.

The Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar-led UNC Gov­ern­ment's thrust to in­tro­duce stand-your-ground leg­is­la­tion has sparked de­bate among politi­cians and the pub­lic.

A new board of com­mis­sion­ers has been ap­point­ed to the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA).

Two WPCs were among four women ar­rest­ed dur­ing an ear­ly morn­ing op­er­a­tion on Thurs­day, as po­lice launched a probe in­to an al­leged Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) scheme.

Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um has clamped a hy­dro­car­bon leak near the Moru­ga Sec­ondary School that trig­gered air qual­i­ty test­ing and emer­gency re­sponse mea­sures late last month.

Venezue­lan Jus­tice Min­is­ter Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo, speak­ing on Wednes­day night dur­ing his tele­vi­sion pro­gramme Con El Ma­zo Dan­do, said a Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­al was in­volved in “ter­ror­ist ac­tiv­i­ties” aimed at desta­bil­is­ing Venezuela on Mon­day.

The De­fence Min­istry has ini­tial­ly re­ject­ed claims by Venezuela Pres­i­dent Nico­las Maduro that Colom­bian para­mil­i­tary groups have in­fil­trat­ed east­ern Venezuela via Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The com­pa­ny be­hind the flopped con­cert in­volv­ing Ja­maican artiste Adid­ja “Vy­bz Kar­tel” Palmer says the near­ly US$1 mil­lion US need­ed for his ser­vices was ac­quired le­git­i­mate­ly.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that Ay­ers-Cae­sar took up du­ties in the Ju­di­cia­ry last month, weeks af­ter the Unit­ed King­dom-based Privy Coun­cil de­liv­ered judg­ment in the fi­nal ap­peal of her law­suit over be­ing pres­sured by Ju­di­cial and Le­gal Ser­vices Com­mis­sion (JLSC) and its chair­man, Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie, in­to re­sign­ing al­most eight years ago.

The To­ba­go Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (TRHA) is deny­ing re­ports that it has launched an in­ter­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the con­tro­ver­sial pro­cure­ment of am­bu­lances, but Guardian Me­dia has been told the au­thor­i­ty will break its si­lence on the mat­ter soon.

In­cum­bent Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) La­dy Vice Chair Camille Robin­son-Reg­is is rub­bish­ing claims that she’s not in sup­port of Pen­ne­lope Beck­les.