Venezuela’s top pros­e­cu­tor on Mon­day an­nounced the ar­rest of a for­mer oil min­is­ter and ac­cused him of work­ing with the U.S. gov­ern­ment to un­der­mine the in­dus­try that dri­ves the coun­try’s econ­o­my.

Ja­maica is ob­serv­ing Na­tion­al He­roes Day on Mon­day with the lead­ers of the two main po­lit­i­cal par­ties at odds as to how the coun­try’s most dec­o­rat­ed cul­tur­al leg­ends Louise “Miss Lou” Ben­nett-Cov­er­ley and Robert Nes­ta “Bob” Mar­ley, should be ho­n­oured.

The Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is re­mem­ber­ing Nile­ung Hy­po­lite, who passed away over the week­end fol­low­ing a bat­tle with can­cer.

The Ba­hamas has sent a six-mem­ber ad­vance team to join the Kenya-led Multi­na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Sup­port (MSS) Mis­sion that is tasked with restor­ing se­cu­ri­ty in the French-speak­ing coun­try of Haiti, where crim­i­nal gangs have been in con­trol of a ma­jor­i­ty sec­tion of the cap­i­tal, Port-au-Prince.

An In­dige­nous sen­a­tor told King Charles III that Aus­tralia is not his land as the British roy­al vis­it­ed Aus­tralia’s par­lia­ment on Mon­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr. Kei­th Row­ley left for New York around mid­night, en route to Apia, Samoa, to rep­re­sent Trinidad and To­ba­go at the Com­mon­wealth Heads of Gov­ern­ment Meet­ing (CHOGM) 2024. He will trav­el with the Min­is­ter of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs, Sen­a­tor Dr. Amery Browne, and Vish­nu Dhan­paul, High Com­mis­sion­er for Trinidad and To­ba­go to the Unit­ed King­dom.

Lebanese were sur­vey­ing the dam­age on Mon­day af­ter overnight Is­raeli strikes hit near­ly a dozen branch­es of a Hezbol­lah-run fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tion that Is­rael says is used to fund at­tacks but where many or­di­nary peo­ple keep their sav­ings.

The Port Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (PATT) is deny­ing claims made by port work­ers that it is still re­ceiv­ing aid from mil­i­tary per­son­nel.

The MP for Diego Mar­tin Cen­tral, Symon de No­bri­ga, says he is sat­is­fied with the on­go­ing works to ad­dress the re­cent par­tial col­lapse of the Morne Co­co Road in Pe­tit Val­ley.

A group of lo­cal doc­tors is call­ing for fi­nan­cial trans­paren­cy from the Med­ical Coun­cil of the Med­ical Board of Trinidad and To­ba­go (MBTT) fol­low­ing al­le­ga­tions of ex­trav­a­gant spend­ing and funds un­ac­count­ed for.

Sasha Ra­moutar’s world col­lapsed the day she be­came wid­owed at 31 as her com­mon-law hus­band, Je­re­my Ram­cha­ran, took his own life. He was 29, and the weight of fi­nan­cial bur­dens proved too much to bear.

Debe teenag­er Nishad Ram­per­sad bat­tled de­pres­sion dur­ing the COVID pan­dem­ic but turned to an un­ex­pect­ed out­let—gam­ing—to cope with his strug­gles. Now he is reap­ing the re­wards of his per­sis­tence, earn­ing US dol­lars for be­ing T&T’s pro­lif­ic gamer named Casper.