A woman ar­rest­ed and de­tained dur­ing a bail fraud in­ves­ti­ga­tion has won $75,000 in com­pen­sa­tion.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) has re­ceived aca­d­e­m­ic li­cences from Hal­libur­ton un­der its Uni­ver­si­ty Grant Pro­gramme.

Nack­ool “Dan­ny” Ram­cha­ran, 37, of Gopaul Trace, Long­denville, was found not guilty at the end of his judge-alone tri­al be­fore Jus­tice Nali­ni Singh at the Hall of Jus­tice in Port-of-Spain on Mon­day.

Ac­tivists and mi­grant ad­vo­cates are call­ing on the gov­ern­ment to ex­tend the on­go­ing mi­grant reg­is­tra­tion process, warn­ing that many in­dige­nous mi­grants — par­tic­u­lar­ly mem­bers of the Warao com­mu­ni­ty are at risk of be­ing left out due to a lack of doc­u­men­ta­tion and lim­it­ed ac­cess to in­for­ma­tion.

Jour­nal­ist, broad­cast­er, com­mu­ni­ca­tions pro­fes­sion­al and singer Ray­mond Ed­wards has died af­ter a pro­longed ill­ness.

Leader of Gov­ern­ment Busi­ness, Bar­ry Padarath, has is­sued a re­sponse to com­ments made by Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les Robin­son fol­low­ing the Prime Min­is­ter’s ad­dress at the 50th Meet­ing of the Cari­com Heads of Gov­ern­ment Con­fer­ence.

Sen­a­tor Leroy Bap­tiste has en­dorsed the ad­dress de­liv­ered by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar at the open­ing cer­e­mo­ny of the 50th Con­fer­ence of Heads of Gov­ern­ment of CARI­COM in St. Kitts and Nevis on Tues­day.

In a hard-hit­ting ad­dress to fel­low Cari­com lead­ers, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar de­liv­ered a force­ful de­fence of her un­wa­ver­ing sup­port for Unit­ed States Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, while sharply re­buk­ing mem­bers of the re­gion­al bloc for what she de­scribed as po­lit­i­cal in­ter­fer­ence across the re­gion and their fail­ure to con­front Venezuela in de­fence of Guyana.

The To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) says a com­par­i­son be­tween for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) au­ton­o­my bills and the con­sti­tu­tion­al arrange­ment in St Kitts and Nevis is “fun­da­men­tal­ly flawed.”

Re­gion­al lead­ers di­rect­ly con­front­ed what they de­scribed as the per­cep­tion of a grow­ing “frac­ture” with­in the re­gion­al bloc dur­ing yes­ter­day’s open­ing cer­e­mo­ny of the 50th Reg­u­lar Meet­ing of the Con­fer­ence of Heads of Gov­ern­ment of Cari­com.

Some par­lia­men­tar­i­ans be­lieve Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s pri­vate meet­ing to­day with Unit­ed States Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio is a pos­i­tive de­vel­op­ment for this coun­try.

An ocelot is fight­ing for sur­vival af­ter be­ing shot and left with se­vere spinal in­juries, in what of­fi­cials are de­scrib­ing as a se­ri­ous breach of the coun­try’s en­vi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion laws.