As ques­tions per­sist over Trinidad and To­ba­go’s strained re­la­tion­ship with Cari­com, po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tists are di­vid­ed on whether the coun­try’s re­cent elec­tion to the Unit­ed Na­tions Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil (UN­SC) will in­flu­ence Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s de­ci­sion to per­son­al­ly at­tend and lead the na­tion­al del­e­ga­tion to the 51st Heads of Gov­ern­ment Meet­ing in St Lu­cia in two weeks.

Mi­grants who suc­cess­ful­ly reg­is­tered on­line dur­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s re­cent­ly con­clud­ed mi­grant reg­u­lar­i­sa­tion ex­er­cise but were left out of in-per­son in­ter­views are wait­ing pa­tient­ly for dates af­ter re­ceiv­ing as­sur­ances from Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der that they will be ac­com­mo­dat­ed once prop­er reg­is­tra­tion ev­i­dence is pro­vid­ed.

State-owned Land­mark­TT Prop­er­ties Ltd says it is still await­ing a re­sponse from the Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion (OPR) as the reg­u­la­tor con­tin­ues its re­view of the pro­cure­ment process for the com­pa­ny’s pro­posed $100 mil­lion Al­lam­by Res­i­den­tial De­vel­op­ment project in Corinth, San Fer­nan­do.

As Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les ap­proach­es her first year in of­fice on Mon­day, PNM vice chair­man Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly has come to her de­fence, ac­cus­ing a group of “PNM in­di­vid­u­als” of wag­ing a cam­paign against Beck­les.

En­vi­ron­men­tal ac­tivist and cor­po­rate sec­re­tary of Fish­er­men and Friends of the Sea (FFOS), Gary Aboud, is set to go on tri­al on Sep­tem­ber 18th, over al­le­ga­tions that he breached COVID-19 Pub­lic Health Reg­u­la­tions dur­ing a protest in Port-of-Spain near­ly five years ago.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a se­ries of crimes across South Trinidad, in­clud­ing an armed rob­bery at a New Grant bar­be­cue out­let, a vi­o­lent su­per­mar­ket raid in Bar­rack­pore and a stor­age room lar­ce­ny in Moru­ga.

A 42-year-old Mor­vant man was robbed of two gold chains val­ued at an es­ti­mat­ed $70,000 as he and his com­mon-law wife re­turned home ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed 26 peo­ple for out­stand­ing main­te­nance ar­rears and an­oth­er eight on war­rants for var­i­ous of­fences dur­ing a two-day ex­er­cise in Cen­tral Di­vi­sion.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed two men and seized a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion in Mal­oney on Sat­ur­day night.

It was a trau­mat­ic and dread­ful Sun­day for Aaliyah Small and her moth­er, Al­isha Mo­hammed, as they cried for help while flee­ing their burn­ing home in La Ro­maine.

A 42-year-old man was robbed of two gold chains val­ued at an es­ti­mat­ed $70,000 by ban­dits at the front door of his Mor­vant home ear­ly on Mon­day morn­ing.

Li­onel Mes­si broke the World Cup scor­ing record with his 17th goal and then added an 18th in stop­page time in de­fend­ing cham­pi­on Ar­genti­na’s 2-0 win over Aus­tria on Mon­day.