U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump in­ter­vened on be­half of star U.S. for­ward Fo­lar­in Ba­lo­gun, whose red-card sus­pen­sion was lift­ed in a de­ci­sion that al­lows him to play in a World Cup match against Bel­gium on Mon­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice has is­sued a yel­low lev­el ad­verse weath­er alert for Trinidad and To­ba­go and sur­round­ing wa­ters, warn­ing of a high chance of heavy show­ers and thun­der­storms from 1.30 a.m. to 12 noon to­day.

The Na­tion­al Trust of Trinidad and To­ba­go has launched a na­tion­wide pro­gramme to as­sess the con­di­tion of more than 300 known ar­chae­o­log­i­cal sites as it races to doc­u­ment and pro­tect the coun­try’s an­cient her­itage from de­vel­op­ment and en­vi­ron­men­tal change.

As the Gov­ern­ment moves to in­tro­duce a Con­tin­u­ous As­sess­ment Com­po­nent (CAC) for pri­ma­ry school stu­dents, an autism ad­vo­cate is urg­ing ed­u­ca­tion of­fi­cials to en­sure the new sys­tem is de­signed to ac­com­mo­date chil­dren with autism and oth­er learn­ing dis­abil­i­ties.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath has pledged to make long-await­ed re­pairs to San Fer­nan­do Cen­tral Sec­ondary School a pri­or­i­ty af­ter the school’s prin­ci­pal re­vealed it has main­tained out­stand­ing aca­d­e­m­ic re­sults de­spite years of in­ad­e­quate fa­cil­i­ties.

A 23-year-old Venezue­lan na­tion­al was shot dead and an­oth­er Venezue­lan man wound­ed in a shoot­ing out­side a bar in Pe­nal dur­ing the ear­ly hours of Sun­day, just me­tres from the Pe­nal Po­lice Sta­tion.

Re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions across Trinidad and To­ba­go are co­or­di­nat­ing a na­tion­wide re­lief ef­fort to as­sist com­mu­ni­ties in Venezuela af­fect­ed by a re­cent earth­quake, with emer­gency sup­plies be­ing col­lect­ed, sort­ed and pre­pared for ship­ment.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has in­ten­si­fied its com­mu­ni­ty crime-fight­ing strat­e­gy in cen­tral Trinidad, with res­i­dents of Cunu­pia rais­ing con­cerns over gang ac­tiv­i­ty, busi­ness se­cu­ri­ty and de­clin­ing po­lice vis­i­bil­i­ty dur­ing a high-lev­el en­gage­ment on Sat­ur­day.

Al­most a year af­ter po­lice of­fi­cers were de­ployed in se­lect­ed schools to ad­dress in­dis­ci­pline, La Ro­maine Sec­ondary School is re­port­ing a marked im­prove­ment in stu­dent be­hav­iour, along­side stronger aca­d­e­m­ic and co-cur­ric­u­lar per­for­mance.

Sev­er­al mem­bers of the Sil­ver Stars steel or­ches­tra were ar­rest­ed ear­ly this morn­ing fol­low­ing an al­leged con­fronta­tion with po­lice of­fi­cers dur­ing Tribe’s band launch cel­e­bra­tions.

Those were the words of grief-strick­en aunt Nan­cy Mollineau on Sun­day as she strug­gled to come to terms with the death of her 15-year-old nephew, Adin Bap­tiste, who died af­ter a crash in Moru­ga. She is now urg­ing young peo­ple to be mind­ful of the com­pa­ny they keep, warn­ing that one poor de­ci­sion can end in tragedy.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has trav­elled to Gros Islet, St Lu­cia, for the 51st Reg­u­lar Meet­ing of the Con­fer­ence of Heads of Gov­ern­ment of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com), where a dis­pute over the reap­point­ment of the bloc’s Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al is ex­pect­ed to be a cen­tral is­sue.