Act­ing Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez has thanked Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar for Trinidad & To­ba­go’s as­sis­tance to earth­quake-rav­aged Venezuela, say­ing the dis­as­ter has reaf­firmed that “the path be­tween na­tions is sol­i­dar­i­ty.”

What be­gan as a ship­ment of food, med­i­cine and re­lief sup­plies to earth­quake-rav­aged Venezuela may have opened the door to re­pair­ing one of the re­gion’s most strained diplo­mat­ic re­la­tion­ships.

De­spite mul­ti­ple in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tions, 89 po­lice firearms re­main un­ac­count­ed for, months af­ter the mur­der of act­ing cor­po­ral Anus­ka Ever­s­ley and the theft of firearms and am­mu­ni­tion from the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion.

Tragedy has struck the farm­ing com­mu­ni­ty of Clax­ton Bay, af­ter a farmer was found dead be­neath his trac­tor on Wednes­day.

Tears flowed freely at the Mt St George Sev­enth-day Ad­ven­tist (SDA) Church yes­ter­day as the close-knit com­mu­ni­ty bade farewell to Dea­coness Neisha Roberts and her moth­er, Ir­ma Roberts.

Hu­man jaw­bones found by a dog led po­lice to the de­com­pos­ing body of a man in Mon Re­pos, San Fer­nan­do, yes­ter­day.

The Court of Ap­peal or­dered that Do­minic and Genevieve Hadeed be im­me­di­ate­ly re­leased from de­ten­tion but con­fined to their home at, Bayshore, West­moor­ings, sub­ject to the fol­low­ing con­di­tions:

Do­minic and Genevieve Hadeed have been or­dered to be im­me­di­ate­ly re­leased by the court af­ter spend­ing 22 days in cus­tody since their ar­rest on June 24.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has re­vealed that she spoke with Venezuela’s Act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez two days af­ter dev­as­tat­ing earth­quakes struck the neigh­bour­ing coun­try, as Trinidad and To­ba­go moved to launch a ma­jor hu­man­i­tar­i­an re­lief ef­fort.

The Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion has an­nounced an ex­ten­sion of cashier op­er­at­ing hours at all Li­cens­ing Di­vi­sion of­fices na­tion­wide, giv­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic ad­di­tion­al time to com­plete pay­ments for ser­vices.

A Ch­agua­nas busi­ness­man has lost more than $1.3 mil­lion af­ter his com­mer­cial bank ac­count was al­leged­ly hacked in what busi­ness lead­ers say re­flects a grow­ing threat of so­phis­ti­cat­ed on­line bank­ing fraud in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

ANSA McAL Lim­it­ed has been as­signed ini­tial is­suer cred­it rat­ings of Cari­AA on the re­gion­al scale and ttAA on the Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­al scale by Caribbean In­for­ma­tion and Cred­it Rat­ing Ser­vices Lim­it­ed (Cari­CRIS).