The Unit­ed Na­tions Chil­dren’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that record num­bers of chil­dren, who are on the move through Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean, face per­ilous jour­neys marked by vi­o­lence, ex­ploita­tion and abuse.

A Russ­ian mis­sile at­tack Fri­day on Pres­i­dent Volodymyr Ze­len­skyy’s home­town in cen­tral Ukraine killed one po­lice­man and in­jured at least 52 oth­ers, emer­gency of­fi­cials said, while an­oth­er at­tack in the south­ern Kher­son re­gion killed three peo­ple.

Ten Venezue­lan women who have been de­tained at the He­li­port in Ch­aguara­mas for more than two months are plead­ing to be re­leased so they can take care of their chil­dren, some of whom are sick.

A busi­ness­man from Mar­aval has emerged vic­to­ri­ous in his law­suit against Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher. It came as a re­sult of her de­ci­sion to seize all three of his li­censed firearms, af­ter one was stolen by his rel­a­tive who used it to com­mit sui­cide. 

The Sanatan Dhar­ma Ma­ha Sab­ha (SDMS) na­tion­al ex­ec­u­tive elec­tion will go ahead as sched­uled on Sun­day.

Chick­ens in To­ba­go have re­sort­ed to eat­ing one an­oth­er due to an alarm­ing short­age of an­i­mal feed, rais­ing con­cerns about the state of poul­try farm­ing on the is­land if the in­ter-is­land fer­ry woes con­tin­ue for an ex­tend­ed pe­ri­od.

The fourth ses­sion of the 12th Par­lia­ment will be launched at the Red House, Port-of-Spain, at 1.30 pm on Mon­day.

She made the com­ment yes­ter­day, even as busi­ness own­ers con­tin­ued to ex­press con­cern that the con­tin­u­ing woes on the seabridge were lead­ing to short­ages in food and con­struc­tion items that could wors­en on the is­land.

Two weeks af­ter a fire on board the Cabo Star car­go ves­sel oc­curred, lead­ing to trans­porta­tion woes for truck­ers trans­port­ing car­go on the seabridge, the Port Au­thor­i­ty of T&T has found some re­lief.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Sec­re­tary for In­fra­struc­ture, Quar­ries and Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment, Trevor James, says the car­go is­sues on the seabridge have not yet af­fect­ed ma­jor projects on the is­land.

From con­struc­tion to hos­pi­tal­i­ty, al­most every busi­ness sec­tor in To­ba­go has been hard hit by the non-sail­ing of the MV Cabo Star car­go ves­sel.

For the sec­ond con­sec­u­tive day yes­ter­day, Preysal Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School pupils were un­able to at­tend class­es be­cause of a sew­er prob­lem on the com­pound.