Venezuela ’s act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez told jour­nal­ists Mon­day that her coun­try had no plans to be­come the 51st U.S. state af­ter Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said he was “se­ri­ous­ly con­sid­er­ing” the move.

Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Dr Roodal Mooni­lal met with ex­ec­u­tives of state en­er­gy com­pa­nies and Chevron Cor­po­ra­tion on Mon­day, to dis­cuss in­vest­ment op­por­tu­ni­ties in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Bish­ops of the An­tilles Epis­co­pal Con­fer­ence (AEC) have con­clud­ed a two-week vis­it to Rome that in­clud­ed the Ad Lim­i­na Apos­tolo­rum Vis­it and the An­nu­al Ple­nary Meet­ing of the con­fer­ence.

The Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion has warned the pub­lic about text mes­sages cir­cu­lat­ing with links claim­ing to fa­cil­i­tate pay­ment for Fixed Penal­ty No­tices.

For­mer hous­ing min­is­ter Camille Robin­son-Reg­is is ac­cus­ing Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee of fail­ing to ex­er­cise prop­er over­sight over his min­istry, fol­low­ing fresh con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion’s sus­pend­ed $3.4 bil­lion hous­ing pro­gramme.

The Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA) says the han­tavirus out­break linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship in­volves the An­des virus strain, which is ca­pa­ble of lim­it­ed hu­man-to-hu­man trans­mis­sion.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) has en­dorsed the open­ing of the Brechin Cas­tle Agro-Pro­cess­ing Fa­cil­i­ty in Cou­va, stat­ing that the project can sup­port SME growth, food se­cu­ri­ty and ex­port de­vel­op­ment.

The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) has de­fend­ed the Cer­tifi­cate of En­vi­ron­men­tal Clear­ance (CEC) is­sued for a ho­tel de­vel­op­ment project in To­ba­go, which fol­lowed a re­view process un­der the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Act and the CEC Rules.

The Min­istry of Health is warn­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic not to share a fake memo cir­cu­lat­ing on­line, which false­ly claims to an­nounce the tem­po­rary clo­sure of schools.

Po­lice of­fi­cers at­tached to the North­ern Di­vi­sion de­stroyed 65 cannabis trees, seized cannabis and ar­rest­ed one man dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed in Mal­oney and St Joseph on Sun­day.

Rur­al com­mu­ni­ties such as Matu­ra and To­co can no longer as­sume they are im­mune from crime be­cause crim­i­nals are adapt­ing and tar­get­ing vul­ner­a­ble coastal ar­eas, Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent has warned.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, in his re­turn to the White House, has demon­strat­ed greater am­biva­lence to­ward Tai­wan, an ap­proach that’s rais­ing ques­tions ahead of this week’s sum­mit with Chi­nese Pres­i­dent Xi Jin­ping about whether the U.S. leader could be open to di­alling back sup­port for the is­land democ­ra­cy that Bei­jing views as its break­away province.