Ef­fec­tive Sep­tem­ber 2, 2025, the De­part­ment of State will up­date the cat­e­gories of ap­pli­cants who may be el­i­gi­ble for a waiv­er of the non-im­mi­grant visa in­ter­view, a re­lease from the U.S. Em­bassy in Port of Spain has con­firmed.

Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der is un­able to say whether there will be an­oth­er ex­ten­sion of the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE), but main­tains much more work needs to be done.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar said she does not want to prej­u­dice on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions at First Cit­i­zens Bank (FCB).

A ma­jor Russ­ian air at­tack on Kyiv ear­ly Thurs­day—in­clud­ing a rare strike in the city cen­tre that dam­aged the Eu­ro­pean Union’s diplo­mat­ic of­fices—killed at least 17 peo­ple and wound­ed 48 more, au­thor­i­ties said.

Just hours af­ter a shoot­er opened fire through the win­dows of a Catholic church in Min­neapo­lis, killing two chil­dren and wound­ing 17 peo­ple, hun­dreds crowd­ed in­side a near­by school’s gym, clutch­ing one an­oth­er and wip­ing away tears dur­ing a vig­il along­side Gov. Tim Walz and cler­gy mem­bers.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go was close to be­com­ing an in­de­pen­dent na­tion in 1962, the T&T Guardian chron­i­cled the his­toric mo­ment. On Au­gust 30, 1962, the news­pa­per pre­viewed what was to come that night—the low­er­ing of the Union Jack and the rais­ing of the na­tion­al flag.

A prison su­per­vi­sor has firm­ly de­nied al­le­ga­tions that he pro­vid­ed as­sis­tance to a crim­i­nal gang and its leader.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says her Gov­ern­ment will do all it can to save pub­lic sec­tor jobs.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says Trinidad and To­ba­go’s en­try in­to a US-led al­liance, as an­nounced by Unit­ed States Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio, will serve the coun­try’s in­ter­ests as the T&T gov­ern­ment in­ten­si­fies ef­forts against car­tels.

Venezuela’s Am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go, Al­varo Sanchez Cordero, is hop­ing the Unit­ed States’ de­ploy­ment of naval ves­sels near Venezuela is noth­ing more than a show of force against his coun­try that will “die away” in a few days.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of En­er­gy, Ernesto Ke­sar, says this coun­try’s off­shore oil and gas op­er­a­tions will not be af­fect­ed by the pres­ence of Unit­ed States mil­i­tary ves­sels in wa­ters close to Trinidad’s coast.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is urg­ing cit­i­zens to read and un­der­stand what a nu­clear sub­ma­rine is to get a bet­ter sense of the sit­u­a­tion the Caribbean finds it­self in with the pres­ence of US naval ves­sels in the re­gion.