Dr. Neil Parsan has been ap­point­ed Am­bas­sador and Per­ma­nent Rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go to the Unit­ed Na­tions, New York.

The Point Lisas De­sali­na­tion Plant will be shut­down be­tween Mon­day 18 to Sat­ur­day 24 Au­gust 2025, to fa­cil­i­tate main­te­nance works.

A 21-year-old man cur­rent­ly is in po­lice cus­tody, and a quan­ti­ty of stolen items has been re­cov­ered, fol­low­ing a re­port of house­break­ing and lar­ce­ny in Ma­yaro ear­li­er to­day.

An air-con­di­tion­ing tech­ni­cian hired to work in­side the Ari­ma Po­lice Sta­tion was fined $10,000 af­ter plead­ing guilty to steal­ing a cam­era from the same build­ing — a crime caught on the sta­tion’s own sur­veil­lance sys­tem.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has re­vealed that she has a pan­ic but­ton in­stalled in her pri­vate home, and is en­cour­ag­ing oth­er home­own­ers to con­sid­er do­ing the same.

The out­go­ing UN res­i­dent and hu­man­i­tar­i­an co­or­di­na­tor for Haiti, Ul­ri­ka Richard­son, says she of­ten felt un­able to de­scribe the sit­u­a­tion in the French-speak­ing Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) coun­try where crim­i­nal gangs are seek­ing to over­throw the gov­ern­ment and where peo­ple—in­clud­ing women and chil­dren—are killed and dis­placed.

As two in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to the death of six-year-old Jash­er Fran­cois, the T&T Na­tion­al Nurs­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) has ex­pressed full sup­port for the gen­er­al-trained nurse in­volved, say­ing its pre­lim­i­nary re­view found she act­ed pro­fes­sion­al­ly de­spite man­pow­er short­ages.

Head of the In­sti­tute for Gen­der and De­vel­op­ment Stud­ies, Dr. Sue-Ann Bar­ratt, is re­new­ing calls for swift jus­tice for gen­der-based vi­o­lence vic­tims, cit­ing pub­lic frus­tra­tion with the lack of ac­tion.

The Guyana-based Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) Sec­re­tari­at Wednes­day said that con­sul­ta­tions with key stake­hold­ers have be­gun across the re­gion to fi­nalise the CARI­COM In­dus­tri­al Pol­i­cy and Strat­e­gy (CIPS) ex­pect­ed to be ap­proved re­gion­al trade min­is­ters lat­er this year.

A four-mem­ber team of ex­perts has be­gun its in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the death of six-year-old Jash­er Fran­cois, though it re­mains un­clear whether the med­ical per­son­nel who ad­min­is­tered the drug have been sent on leave.

San Fer­nan­do West teenag­er Ja­mari Ed­wards re­mains in hos­pi­tal with a bul­let lodged in his liv­er af­ter be­ing shot while buy­ing food in Fyz­abad on Sat­ur­day night.

San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning has ac­cused trade union lead­ers of go­ing against their mem­ber­ship and “kiss­ing up” to the Prime Min­is­ter while thou­sands of CEPEP, URP and Forestry work­ers suf­fer.