Chair of the Al­liance of Small Is­land States (AO­SIS) joined rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Least De­vel­oped Coun­tries (LD­Cs) on Tues­day at the Bonn Cli­mate Change Con­fer­ence to ex­press con­cern over stalled ne­go­ti­a­tions.

Pres­i­dent Amar­jeet Kocher of the Ro­tary Club of St. Au­gus­tine has pledged $90,000 to The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St. Au­gus­tine Cam­pus. The do­na­tion will be dis­trib­uted over a three-year pe­ri­od, with $30,000 al­lo­cat­ed an­nu­al­ly to fund schol­ar­ships and bur­saries for un­der­grad­u­ate stu­dents in need.

The Min­is­ter of Fi­nance, Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo, pre­sent­ed in­stru­ments of ap­point­ment to new mem­bers of the Board of Di­rec­tors of Caribbean Air­lines Lim­it­ed on Tues­day.

A 4.9-mag­ni­tude earth­quake shook Trinidad and To­ba­go on Tues­day af­ter­noon, the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies’ Seis­mic Re­search Cen­tre (UWI‑SRC) con­firmed.

Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries, Dr. Roodal Mooni­lal MP, has reaf­firmed the Gov­ern­ment’s com­mit­ment to col­lab­o­ra­tion with Grena­da on oil and gas ex­plo­ration in its wa­ters, as well as the re­new­al of a part­ner­ship be­tween the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) and the Glob­al Pe­tro­le­um Group (GPG).

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice has of­fi­cial­ly dis­con­tin­ued the high wind alert is­sued for To­ba­go and parts of Trinidad, stat­ing that the strongest winds have now passed.

Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der met on Tues­day with rep­re­sen­ta­tives from US-based se­cu­ri­ty firm Guide­post So­lu­tions to ex­plore op­por­tu­ni­ties for strength­en­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s pro­tec­tive ser­vices.

Prime Min­is­ter An­drew Hol­ness says the gov­ern­ment in­tends to have Ja­maica es­tab­lished as a leader in lo­gis­tics and man­u­fac­tur­ing, as well as an in­vest­ment des­ti­na­tion.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) played a crit­i­cal role in the seizure of over US$25 mil­lion in co­caine and the ar­rest of three for­eign na­tion­als dur­ing a mar­itime op­er­a­tion off the coast of Por­tu­gal ear­li­er this month, ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from the U.S. Em­bassy in Port of Spain.

The un­oc­cu­pied home of a Moru­ga man who died one month ago was de­stroyed by fire on Mon­day night.

The Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Prop­er­ty De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (NIPDEC) has dis­posed of an es­ti­mat­ed $80 mil­lion worth of ex­pired phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals be­tween 2020 and 2025.

NA­TO Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al Mark Rutte praised Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump for mak­ing Eu­rope “pay in a BIG way,” as al­lied lead­ers gath­ered in the Nether­lands on Tues­day for a his­toric sum­mit that could unite them around a new de­fense spend­ing pledge or widen di­vi­sions among the 32 mem­ber coun­tries.