Four hik­ers who went miss­ing near Edith Falls in Ch­aguara­mas were found safe this morn­ing af­ter an overnight search and res­cue op­er­a­tion led by emer­gency ser­vices.

The UN Hu­man Rights Of­fice has raised alarm over wors­en­ing vi­o­lence in Haiti, as gangs ex­pand their reach be­yond the cap­i­tal Port-au-Prince in­to cen­tral re­gions, car­ry­ing out killings, kid­nap­pings and sex­u­al vi­o­lence.

Two roofs were blown off homes as res­i­dents from the low-ly­ing com­mu­ni­ties of Pe­nal, Bar­rack­pore, and Wood­land con­tin­ued to brace for more rain­fall, even as teams worked to man­age flood­ing from the South Oropouche Drainage Basin.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Se­cu­ri­ties and Ex­change Com­mis­sion has part­nered with To­ba­go’s Di­vi­sion of Fi­nance, Trade and the Econ­o­my to help res­i­dents make smarter, safer in­vest­ment de­ci­sions.

The Gov­ern­ment has warned that the T&T Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice’s ex­ten­sion of the Or­ange Lev­el River­ine Flood Alert un­til 6 pm to­day means sev­er­al hours of tor­ren­tial rains, high winds and more flood­ing can be ex­pect­ed.

The Met Of­fice yes­ter­day ex­tend­ed both the Yel­low Lev­el Ad­verse Weath­er Alert and the Or­ange Lev­el River­ine Flood Alert for Trinidad, as it fore­casts more bad weath­er to­day.

Works and In­fra­struc­ture Min­is­ter Jer­lean John says there will be a dis­rup­tion in in­ter-is­land fer­ry ser­vice, as the MV Cabo Star will be dry-docked be­tween Ju­ly 12 and Au­gust 3.

San Rafael, Brazil, Tal­paro, Mun­do Nue­vo, Las Lo­mas, and parts of Char­lieville re­main wa­ter­logged yes­ter­day, with homes and roads sub­merged and res­i­dents strand­ed.

Res­i­dents across parts of Cen­tral Trinidad were strug­gling to cope with se­vere flood­ing yes­ter­day, fol­low­ing heavy rain­fall that caused trib­u­taries of the Cunu­pia Riv­er to over­flow, in­un­dat­ing homes, farms and com­mu­ni­ties.

Two state en­ter­pris­es have been struck off and 16 more in dan­ger of be­ing struck off the Com­pa­nies Reg­istry, Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein said yes­ter­day.

The new­ly ap­point­ed Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (Ude­cott) chair­man has iden­ti­fied the Cou­va Chil­dren’s Hos­pi­tal as a pri­or­i­ty project for the new board.

Al­though for­mer min­is­ter of fi­nance Colm Im­bert said the new ter­mi­nal of the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in Crown Point, To­ba­go, should be opened by Ju­ly, the Gov­ern­ment is yet to say if this will be un­der­tak­en.