The fed­er­al gov­ern­ment is re­vers­ing the ter­mi­na­tion of le­gal sta­tus for in­ter­na­tion­al stu­dents around the U.S. af­ter many filed court chal­lenges against the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion crack­down, a gov­ern­ment lawyer said Fri­day.

A 57-year-old em­ploy­ee of the Min­istry of Fi­nance is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court in May, to face the charges of forgery and ut­ter­ing a forged doc­u­ment.

Shum­ba James and an­oth­er man were fa­tal­ly shot by po­lice dur­ing a shootout in St. Mary’s Vil­lage, Moru­ga, ear­li­er to­day.

The Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO) is call­ing for ur­gent ac­tion to ad­dress gaps in im­mu­niza­tion cov­er­age as coun­tries in the Amer­i­c­as, in­clud­ing the Caribbean, con­front out­breaks of vac­cine-pre­ventable dis­eases such as measles and yel­low fever.

Ban­dits es­caped with close to $200,000 af­ter rob­bing a busi­ness­man in Cou­va on Thurs­day af­ter­noon.

Pres­i­dent Gen­er­al of the OW­TU An­cel Ro­get has vowed that work­ers who held out against the Gov­ern­ment’s four per cent wage of­fer will start new ne­go­ti­a­tions at 10 per cent once the UNC wins the Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

With just days to go be­fore the gen­er­al elec­tion, Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) leader Wat­son Duke has launched a scathing re­sponse to To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty leader Far­ley Au­gus­tine, ac­cus­ing him of ar­ro­gance, be­tray­al, and dis­re­spect.

U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said in an in­ter­view pub­lished on Fri­day that “Crimea will stay with Rus­sia,” the lat­est ex­am­ple of the U.S. leader pres­sur­ing Ukraine to make con­ces­sions to end the war while it re­mains un­der siege.

Gov­er­nor of the Grand Turk, Dileeni Daniel-Sel­varat­nam has ap­point­ed Ra­jiv Per­sad, SC as an act­ing judge in the Supreme Court, Crim­i­nal Di­vi­sion, sit­ting in Grand Turk from 1st May 2025 to 31st Au­gust 2025.

UNC deputy po­lit­i­cal leader Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has ac­cused the PNM ad­min­is­tra­tion of reck­less bor­row­ing to cov­er up a de­plet­ed Trea­sury, claim­ing the gov­ern­ment is drain­ing the coun­try’s fi­nan­cial re­serves.

While thank­ing sup­port­ers in the Moru­ga/Table­land con­stituen­cy for their love and sup­port, Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­vealed that she and her hus­band, Dr Gre­go­ry Bisses­sar, were in­volved in an ac­ci­dent last week on their way to San­gre Grande.

Ex­press­ing sym­pa­thy for hard­work­ing farm­ers, UNC Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has vowed to es­tab­lish a spe­cial agri­cul­tur­al court to ad­dress prae­di­al lar­ce­ny if elect­ed to of­fice.