Con­struc­tion of the new $US400 mil­lion Unit­ed States em­bassy in Mar­aval has be­gun and em­bassy of­fi­cials have ad­vised that near­by res­i­dents may ex­pe­ri­ence noise and traf­fic dis­rup­tions as a re­sult in the com­ing months.

A po­lice raid, which in­volved the Counter Traf­fick­ing Unit (CTU), has re­sult­ed in the dis­cov­ery of 12 adult Venezue­lan women and one 16-year-old at a lo­ca­tion in Tu­na­puna.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is seek­ing the ur­gent as­sis­tance of the pub­lic in lo­cat­ing 14-year-old Mosthigha Sander­son. Mosthigha, from Palmiste, was last seen on June 3rd and was re­port­ed miss­ing to the San Fer­nan­do Po­lice Sta­tion on the same day.

For­mer for­eign af­fairs min­is­ter Dr Amery Browne has called on the Trinidad and To­ba­go Gov­ern­ment to adopt a calm and diplo­mat­ic ap­proach to de-es­ca­late ris­ing ten­sions with Venezuela.

Po­lice de­tained 28 un­doc­u­ment­ed South Amer­i­can mi­grants dur­ing an ear­ly morn­ing op­er­a­tion at a sports bar in St Ann’s Vil­lage, Ma­yaro.

In­ter­na­tion­al Game Tech­nol­o­gy (IGT) marked Glob­al Giv­ing Month by vol­un­teer­ing at the Autis­tic So­ci­ety of Trinidad and To­ba­go (ASTT) head­quar­ters, Autism Place, in D’Abadie.

The Al­liance of Small Is­land States (AO­SIS) has is­sued a stark warnig that the world’s largest emit­ters must act ur­gent­ly to se­cure the promis­es of Paris Agree­ment to lim­it glob­al warm­ing to 1.5°C.

Vet­er­ans gath­ered Fri­day in Nor­mandy to mark the 81st an­niver­sary of the D-Day land­ings — a piv­otal mo­ment of World War II that even­tu­al­ly led to the col­lapse of Adolf Hitler’s regime.

Pres­i­dent of the Sen­ate Wade Mark was to­day sworn in as Act­ing Pres­i­dent of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The Venezue­lan Gov­ern­ment has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of is­su­ing an “an­gry and un­jus­ti­fied” re­sponse to its con­cerns about so called "ter­ror­ists" orig­i­nat­ing in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

With an es­ti­mat­ed $2 mil­lion in tick­et sales promised to be re­fund­ed to pa­trons of the failed One Caribbean Mu­sic Fes­ti­val, the event’s pro­mot­ers are threat­en­ing le­gal ac­tion against on­line tick­et­ing agency Is­land eT­ick­ets.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has is­sued a di­rect warn­ing to the Venezue­lan gov­ern­ment: Trinidad and To­ba­go’s ter­ri­to­ry is off lim­its. And she has al­so made it clear T&T is stand­ing with the Unit­ed States on its poli­cies against the Nicolás Maduro regime.