Three peo­ple have been shot at a U.S. Im­mi­gra­tion and Cus­toms En­force­ment fa­cil­i­ty in Dal­las and the shoot­er is dead from a self-in­flict­ed gun­shot wound, the agency’s di­rec­tor said.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has of­fi­cial­ly launched its School Ori­ent­ed Polic­ing Unit in To­ba­go, be­gin­ning with vis­its to Ma­son Hall Sec­ondary and Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary on Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 23.

The Min­istry of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices dis­trib­uted more than $269,000 in Dis­as­ter Re­lief Grants to over 40 house­holds in Pe­nal/Debe, Siparia, and sur­round­ing com­mu­ni­ties on Sat­ur­day.

As he pre­pared to re­ceive the Medal of Mer­it Gold for Pub­lic Ser­vice on Re­pub­lic Day, Dr Allen Sam­my urged the na­tion’s youth to per­se­vere with pa­tience, re­mind­ing them that true trans­for­ma­tion takes time and the coun­try’s fu­ture rests in their vi­sion.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Ed­ward Alexan­der has de­clared his full sup­port for Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, a day af­ter she rep­ri­mand­ed him over con­tro­ver­sial re­marks about Venezuela.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has rep­ri­mand­ed Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Alexan­der over con­tro­ver­sial re­marks about Venezuela, say­ing he is “cer­tain­ly out of line”.

• Fazal Karim, posthu­mous­ly, for­mer Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Ch­agua­nas East Con­stituen­cy, and for­mer Sen­a­tor and Min­is­ter of Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion and Skills Train­ing, Ed­u­ca­tion

This Re­pub­lic Day, vet­er­an CNC3 video­jour­nal­ist Ivan Toolsie will be ho­n­oured with the Cha­co­nia Sil­ver Medal by Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo—a fit­ting trib­ute to a man who has spent his life be­hind the lens, cap­tur­ing the sto­ries of T&T.

The Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) are set to re­ceive this coun­try’s sec­ond-high­est ho­n­our, the Cha­co­nia Medal gold, at to­day’s an­nu­al Na­tion­al Awards Cer­e­mo­ny at Pres­i­dent’s House.

On the 49th an­niver­sary of Re­pub­lic Day, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar called for ur­gent re­forms to strength­en T&T’s democ­ra­cy, not­ing that the foun­da­tions of the Re­pub­lic re­main flawed.

The Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice (MSJ) said too many cit­i­zens are strug­gling, even as T&T marks 49 years as a Re­pub­lic.

For­mer min­is­ter of na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty and works and trans­port Jack Warn­er says now that the ex­tra­di­tion re­quest against him by the Unit­ed States (US) has been per­ma­nent­ly blocked, he wants to re­turn to serv­ing the pub­lic.