Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo says there is need for a re­view and ad­just­ment of the Con­tain­er Ex­am­i­na­tion Sta­tion (CES) fees at T&T’s ports of en­try.

Speak­er of the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives and chair­man of the Stand­ing Or­ders Com­mit­tee, Jagdeo Singh, says he will con­vene a meet­ing of the com­mit­tee to al­low full par­tic­i­pa­tion from all mem­bers on the is­sue of the pro­ce­dure to be fol­lowed dur­ing the Ques­tions for the Prime Min­is­ter Seg­ment of House sit­tings.

The fight against drug traf­fick­ing must rest on co­op­er­a­tion and law and in­ter­dic­tions should pro­ceed un­der clear le­gal au­thor­i­ty, says An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Prime Min­is­ter Gas­ton Browne.

The Privy Coun­cil has ruled that the con­sti­tu­tion­al rights of a re­tired fire­man, who was by­passed for a pro­mo­tion on sev­er­al oc­ca­sions, were breached and or­dered the High Court to as­sess what pos­si­ble dam­ages he is owed.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has not­ed the ex­tra­or­di­nary ex­am­ples of courage and ser­vice that have been dis­played by po­lice of­fi­cers dur­ing his first 100 days on the job – and he is en­cour­ag­ing them to con­tin­ue act­ing with ho­n­our and pride.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has lament­ed the wors­en­ing brain drain in Trinidad and To­ba­go, dri­ven by crime and oth­er fac­tors, as she pledged to strength­en en­gage­ment with na­tion­als liv­ing abroad.

Ce­dros po­lice con­sta­ble Rus­sell Be­dasse has re­signed, ac­cus­ing col­leagues of ig­nor­ing his miss­ing per­son re­port af­ter his moth­er van­ished last week.

Chair­man of the Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (TPRC) Josi­ah Austin has re­ject­ed claims that Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment bod­ies have re­ceived dis­burse­ments from prop­er­ty tax rev­enue.

A 65-year-old man was ar­rest­ed af­ter po­lice re­cov­ered a firearm and a large quan­ti­ty of nar­cotics at his prop­er­ty dur­ing an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in the South­ern Di­vi­sion.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has signed an agree­ment with the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates al­low­ing diplo­mat­ic and of­fi­cial pass­port hold­ers to en­ter the UAE visa-free. Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from the UAE For­eign Af­fairs Min­istry, UAE cit­i­zens hold­ing diplo­mat­ic, spe­cial, or­di­nary, and "mis­sion" pass­ports are now ex­empt from the visa re­quire­ment for en­try to Trinidad and To­ba­go. How­ev­er, the agree­ment is sig­nif­i­cant­ly more lim­it­ed for T&T na­tion­als, as all oth­er pass­port types, in­clud­ing those is­sued to or­di­nary cit­i­zens, still re­quire a visa to en­ter the UAE. 

The Prime Min­is­ter of St. Kitts and Nevis, Dr. Ter­rance M. Drew, has called for re­form of the ar­chi­tec­ture of in­ter­na­tion­al fi­nance, stat­ing it was large­ly built in a dif­fer­ent cen­tu­ry for a dif­fer­ent world.

Rus­sia un­leashed a bar­rage of drones and mis­siles on Ukraine overnight in­to Sun­day, killing at least four peo­ple, with Kyiv suf­fer­ing the heav­i­est as­sault.