Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro called Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar a “war­mon­ger” who has forced the Venezue­lan peo­ple to have protests and march­es all over Venezuela in re­cent days be­cause of T&T’s sup­port for the Unit­ed States’ mil­i­tary ac­tions in the Caribbean.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der com­mend­ed the To­ba­go Di­vi­sion of the Po­lice Ser­vice for its suc­cess in re­duc­ing mur­ders and curb­ing il­le­gal drugs and weapons. Speak­ing dur­ing a vis­it to the Scar­bor­ough Po­lice Sta­tion to­day, Alexan­der de­scribed the 300 per cent re­duc­tion in mur­ders as a “mile­stone,” not­ing that the is­land record­ed sev­en mur­ders this year com­pared to 24 last year.

Head of the Re­al Po­lice For Po­lice par­ty, Sgt Zane Bain, says there is an ur­gent need to re­store in­ter­est among mem­bers of the TTPS So­cial Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPSS­WA), ex­press­ing dis­ap­point­ment over what he de­scribed as a “low turnout” for the as­so­ci­a­tion’s elec­tions on Mon­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has pledged to es­tab­lish a cen­tre in To­ba­go to sup­port chil­dren with spe­cial needs, not­ing that as a grand­moth­er to a child with autism, she un­der­stands the chal­lenges in­volved.

The Unit­ed Na­tions sec­re­tary-gen­er­al warned Tues­day that the war in Su­dan is “spi­ral­ing out of con­trol” af­ter a para­mil­i­tary force seized the be­sieged and famine-strick­en Dar­fur city of el-Fash­er.

When T&T al­ter­na­tive rock band Imag­i­nary Friends re­leased those lyrics in Might in 2016, they felt its soul­ful pop/rock and Tri­ni blend might have pro­vid­ed pos­i­tive vibes for lis­ten­ers at that stress­ful time, when one of the largest oil price de­clines in mod­ern his­to­ry oc­curred.

The Min­istry of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices (MPS­DFS) says once the Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Cross So­ci­ety (TTRCS) com­pletes its au­dits, it will re­assess the gov­ern­ment’s fi­nan­cial re­la­tion­ship with the hu­man­i­tar­i­an or­gan­i­sa­tion. The Min­istry added that, at present, it has no ac­tive fi­nan­cial re­la­tion­ship with the Red Cross.

Mi­nor­i­ty Leader Kelvon Mor­ris is call­ing on To­bag­o­ni­ans to pre­pare for what he de­scribed as a “week of truth and dis­trac­tion” as he plans to move a pri­vate mo­tion ex­pos­ing what he called “Far­ley Au­gus­tine’s be­tray­al of To­ba­go.”

The An­tigua and Bar­bu­da De­fence Force (ABDF) is deny­ing re­ports of unau­tho­rised Amer­i­can mil­i­tary ac­tiv­i­ty on the is­land, say­ing that the pres­ence of Cana­di­an mil­i­tary of­fi­cials is a re­sult of the plan­ning process for the Com­mon­wealth Heads of Gov­ern­ment Meet­ing (CHOGM) to be held here next year.

Dick Ch­eney, the hard-charg­ing con­ser­v­a­tive who be­came one of the most pow­er­ful and po­lar­is­ing vice pres­i­dents in U.S. his­to­ry and a lead­ing ad­vo­cate for the in­va­sion of Iraq, has died at age 84.

The Guyana gov­ern­ment says the glob­al en­vi­ron­ment is im­pact­ing the rev­enue of the oil and rice in­dus­tries, but re­main con­fi­dent that the coun­try’s eco­nom­ic pro­jec­tions would be met.

The body of 63-year-old ex-fire­man and join­er Anslym Alon­zo was dis­cov­ered in a bushy area at Pe­ter­son Trace, De Gannes Road, off Lit­tle Co­ra Road, Cu­mu­to, on Mon­day evening.