The Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tions of Trinidad and To­ba­go an­nounced a team of 74 ath­letes and 18 of­fi­cials for the meet from April 4 to April 6 at the Ki­rani James Ath­let­ics Sta­di­um in St George’s.

The par­ents of Sta­cy Sama­roo, whose body was found float­ing in the sea in To­ba­go last Tues­day, are still await­ing word on when the au­top­sy will take place on the sis­ter isle.

Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer Com­man­der Dr Daryl Din­di­al on Mon­day re­con­vened talks with the Ex­ec­u­tive of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion on mat­ters af­fect­ing mem­bers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice.

Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter and Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance Kennedy Swarats­ingh says Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s meet­ing with Unit­ed States Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump at the Shield of the Amer­i­c­as Sum­mit could af­fect re­la­tions be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Unit­ed States.

Oil prices con­tin­ued to soar on Mon­day as the Iran war in­ten­si­fied, threat­en­ing pro­duc­tion and ship­ping in the Mid­dle East and pum­mel­ing fi­nan­cial mar­kets.

Women have al­ways played an im­por­tant role in Dr Lyn­don Gar­diner's life, even be­fore he be­came chair­man of In­ter­Caribbean Air­ways. He was raised by his moth­er in the Turks and Caicos af­ter his fa­ther aban­doned the fam­i­ly. His sis­ter taught him how to dri­ve. He start­ed an air­line with a sin­gle-en­gine Cess­na in 1991 to vis­it a woman in the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic who would lat­er be­come his wife. And on Sun­day, Dr Gar­diner's goal of one day adding Trinidad to in­ter­Caribbean Air­ways' route map was ful­filled with three women op­er­at­ing the in­au­gur­al flight to Port of Spain.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is seek­ing to re­as­sure that the re­cent­ly formed mil­i­tary al­liance be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go, Guyana and the Don­ald Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion will ul­ti­mate­ly ben­e­fit all of Cari­com.

Po­lice are seek­ing the pub­lic’s as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing a 44-year-old Ch­agua­nas man who was re­port­ed miss­ing on Sun­day.

Lo­cal busi­ness­es have op­er­at­ed un­der the strain of or­gan­ised crime and a State of Emer­gency for too long, ac­cord­ing to Bal­dath Ma­haraj, pres­i­dent of the Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (CCIC).

Less than 24 hours af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar met with Unit­ed States En­er­gy Sec­re­tary Chris Wright, En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal says glob­al en­er­gy gi­ant Chevron is al­ready knock­ing on Trinidad and To­ba­go’s door.

This coun­try’s rev­enue po­si­tion in­creased last Fri­day by US$4 mil­lion a month as a re­sult of high­er oil prices fol­low­ing the Mid­dle East war – and that sum is in ad­di­tion to US$10 mil­lion in oil rev­enue, which was es­ti­mat­ed ear­li­er last week, says En­er­gy Min­is­ter Roodal Mooni­lal.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the reg­u­la­tions gov­ern­ing the cur­rent State of Emer­gency (SoE) dif­fer from those im­ple­ment­ed dur­ing the 2024 State of Emer­gency un­der the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment ad­min­is­tra­tion, par­tic­u­lar­ly in how they ad­dress free­dom of ex­pres­sion and pub­lic safe­ty.