Ex­ec­u­tive chair­man of the ANSA McAL Group, Dr A Nor­man Sab­ga, will re­ceive the Amer­i­can Foun­da­tion for the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies’ Lead­er­ship Award, while the ANSA McAL Group will re­ceive the Cor­po­rate Lead­er­ship Award at the foun­da­tion’s 29th an­nu­al “The Lega­cy Con­tin­ues” Schol­ar­ship Gala on April 17 in New York City.

The Unit­ed States Gov­ern­ment, through the US Em­bassy in Port-of-Spain and the US South­ern Com­mand (SOUTH­COM), has do­nat­ed 8,640 meals ready-to-eat (MREs) to the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force (TTDF).

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the rob­bery of a pop­u­lar San Fer­nan­do restau­rant and bar in which ban­dits made off with al­co­hol and cig­a­rettes.

Sev­er­al po­lice of­fi­cers were among those in­jured in a two-ve­hi­cle col­li­sion in San Fer­nan­do on Mon­day night.

The East­er hol­i­day week­end con­tin­ued with more road traf­fic ac­ci­dents as a 72-year-old man was left in in­ten­sive care fol­low­ing a crash along the Solomon Ho­choy High­way on Sun­day night.

Sev­en new judges have been ap­point­ed to the High Court, fol­low­ing a swear­ing-in cer­e­mo­ny at Pres­i­dent’s House yes­ter­day.

The Amer­i­can Foun­da­tion for The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (AFUWI) will present its Lead­er­ship Award to Dr A. Nor­man Sab­ga, ex­ec­u­tive chair­man of the ANSA McAL Group, and its Cor­po­rate Lead­er­ship Award to the ANSA McAL Group, at its 29th an­nu­al “The Lega­cy Con­tin­ues” Schol­ar­ship Gala on April 17 in New York City.

So­ca star Patrice Roberts has been or­dered to pay US$25,104.12 in com­pen­sa­tion to a Cana­di­an en­ter­tain­ment com­pa­ny for ser­vices it pro­vid­ed while briefly man­ag­ing her ca­reer.

U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump threat­ened Tues­day that a “whole civ­i­liza­tion will die tonight” if Iran fails to meet his lat­est dead­line to strike a deal that in­cludes re­open­ing the Strait of Hor­muz, while the Is­lam­ic Re­pub­lic urged young peo­ple to form hu­man chains around pow­er plants and oth­er po­ten­tial tar­gets.

Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (DCP) in charge of Op­er­a­tions and Gold Com­man­der for the State of Emer­gency (SoE) Suzette Mar­tin says the re­sponse to crim­i­nal­i­ty has record­ed some suc­cess­es, notwith­stand­ing con­tin­ued homi­cides.

The Down­town Own­ers and Mer­chants As­so­ci­a­tion (DO­MA) says the re­cent clo­sure of some busi­ness­es re­flects a long-stand­ing eco­nom­ic de­cline in Trinidad and To­ba­go and not a sud­den down­turn.

The Unit­ed States Gov­ern­ment, through the US Em­bassy in Port of Spain and the US South­ern Com­mand (SOUTH­COM), has do­nat­ed 8,640 meals ready-to-eat (MREs) to the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force (TTDF).