San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning has apol­o­gised and dis­tanced him­self from cer­tain re­spons­es that ap­peared on his Face­book page re­gard­ing re­cent is­sues that have been sim­mer­ing with­in the PNM.

An Ari­ma busi­ness­man who was award­ed $90,000 af­ter a High Court judge found that he was as­sault­ed by a po­lice of­fi­cer three years ago is call­ing for bet­ter train­ing with­in the Po­lice Ser­vice.

Neil Ram­s­ingh has re­signed as Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of the Agri­cul­tur­al De­vel­op­ment Bank (ADB), with the bank ad­ver­tis­ing the po­si­tion hours af­ter his de­par­ture.

Po­lice iden­ti­fied the vic­tim as Ty­lan Hink­son of Red­wood Street, Mor­vant. He was re­port­ed­ly shot near Sec­ond Cale­do­nia Road, in the vicin­i­ty of Ju­man.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the theft of 28 car bat­ter­ies from a man who was robbed at gun­point and forced to dri­ve to an­oth­er area on Mon­day af­ter­noon.

The Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture and Fish­eries is turn­ing to dig­i­tal tech­nol­o­gy to im­prove the de­tec­tion, re­port­ing and re­sponse to an­i­mal dis­eases across Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The Nel­son­ian Foun­da­tion is rolling out three free ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence tools aimed at tack­ling gaps in ed­u­ca­tion, de­men­tia care and fi­nan­cial lit­er­a­cy across the Caribbean.

Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Whip in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Mar­vin Gon­za­les is de­mand­ing that Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar tell the coun­try whether the State of Emer­gency (SoE) will be ex­tend­ed when both Hous­es of Par­lia­ment re­sume on Fri­day.

An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Prime Min­is­ter Gas­ton Browne has in­ten­si­fied his clash with the re­gion­al ju­di­cia­ry, ques­tion­ing where as­so­ci­a­tions rep­re­sent­ing women judges were when vul­ner­a­ble girls were be­ing raped and sex­u­al of­fend­ers were re­ceiv­ing what he de­scribed as le­nient prison sen­tences.

Smoke was re­port­ed­ly seen com­ing from the air traf­fic con­trol tow­er at ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in To­ba­go on Tues­day, trig­ger­ing a fire alarm and forc­ing staff to evac­u­ate the build­ing.

The East­ern Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (ER­HA) has ac­knowl­edged con­cerns over short­ages of drugs and med­ical sup­plies at the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal Cam­pus.

Neil Ram­s­ingh has re­signed as Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of the Agri­cul­tur­al De­vel­op­ment Bank (ADB), with the bank ad­ver­tis­ing the po­si­tion hours af­ter his de­par­ture.