The USS Ger­ald R. Ford Car­ri­er Strike Group has en­tered the Caribbean Sea to sup­port Unit­ed States op­er­a­tions aimed at dis­man­tling transna­tion­al crim­i­nal or­gan­i­sa­tions and coun­ter­ing nar­co-ter­ror­ism, the U.S. South­ern Com­mand (SOUTH­COM) con­firmed yes­ter­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s ex­ports of an­hy­drous am­mo­nia, urea and urea-am­mo­ni­um ni­trate will again en­ter the Unit­ed States du­ty-free af­ter Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump signed an Ex­ec­u­tive Or­der on 14 No­vem­ber mod­i­fy­ing the scope of rec­i­p­ro­cal tar­iffs in­tro­duced ear­li­er this year.

Chief Jus­tice Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh has promised that the “icon­ic Supreme Court build­ing in San Fer­nan­do” will be re­opened un­der his tenure.

Al­most two weeks af­ter Re­pub­li­cans lost bad­ly in elec­tions in Geor­gia, New Jer­sey, Penn­syl­va­nia and Vir­ginia, many GOP lead­ers in­sist there is no prob­lem with the par­ty’s poli­cies, its mes­sage or Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s lead­er­ship.

A scuf­fle at a Grand Bazaar casi­no be­tween a se­nior po­lice­man and a man­ag­er led to the of­fi­cer call­ing for back-up and seek­ing the ar­rest of one of the se­cu­ri­ty guards.

The Cou­va Chil­dren’s Hos­pi­tal will start re­ceiv­ing its first in­take of young pa­tients in the com­ing weeks. Cou­va South MP Bar­ry Padarath an­nounced this when he de­liv­ered the fea­ture ad­dress at Bach­he Kaand 2025 – The Chil­dren’s Chap­ter.

The World Bank says its Board of Ex­ec­u­tive Di­rec­tors has ap­proved a new project in Haiti aimed at im­prov­ing re­silient rur­al ac­ces­si­bil­i­ty and road con­nec­tiv­i­ty in the South and North de­part­ments.

Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro is warn­ing that Trinidad and To­ba­go’s joint mil­i­tary drills with the Unit­ed States could “threat­en peace” in the Caribbean.

Last Tues­day, Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro agreed with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar that tar­get­ed US strikes on sev­er­al al­leged drug-smug­gling ves­sels off the coast of Venezuela in re­cent weeks have made a “mea­sur­able im­pact” on the lo­cal drug trade, trig­ger­ing a sharp rise in the price of il­lic­it nar­cotics.

The de­ci­sion by the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UDe­COTT) to sole-se­lect a con­sul­tant for two ma­jor in­fra­struc­ture projects has prompt­ed in­dus­try sources to call for greater trans­paren­cy from the state com­pa­ny re­gard­ing the deals and fu­ture ur­ban de­vel­op­ment con­sul­tan­cy con­tracts.

As joint train­ing ex­er­cis­es be­tween the US Ma­rine Corps’ 22nd Ma­rine Ex­pe­di­tionary Unit (MEU) and the T&T De­fence Force were set to be­gin to­day, sev­er­al gov­ern­ment min­is­ters and se­nior mil­i­tary of­fi­cials re­mained tight-lipped about the de­tails of the op­er­a­tion.

Is There Not A Cause? (ITNAC) is spear­head­ing a ma­jor re­lief op­er­a­tion for Ja­maica and Haiti, where com­mu­ni­ties are still strug­gling to re­cov­er from the de­struc­tion caused by Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa, which bat­tered parts of the north­ern Caribbean ear­li­er this month.