Ebo­la pre­cau­tions in ef­fect and mem­bers of the pub­lic have been ad­vised to avoid trav­el to Ebo­la-af­fect­ed coun­tries—the De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Re­pub­lic of Con­go (DRC), South Su­dan and Ugan­da. Those who have vis­it­ed or tran­sit­ed through these ar­eas will be sub­ject to en­hanced health screen­ing up­on ar­rival in Trinidad and To­ba­go, Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe has an­nounced.

Po­lice say in­mates who shared a cell with mur­der ac­cused Christo­pher Ban­field, who was beat­en to death at the Arou­ca Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison, have not yet been in­ter­viewed as in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the in­ci­dent con­tin­ue.

Of­fi­cers of the Re­gion II Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions say en­quiries in­to the mur­der of busi­ness­man and re­put­ed un­der­world fig­ure Dan­ny Guer­ra con­tin­ue, as a per­son of in­ter­est is ac­tive­ly be­ing sought for ques­tion­ing.

Thir­ty-one as­pir­ing ac­tors show­cased their tal­ents and new­ly ac­quired skills dur­ing Cin­don Pro­duc­tions’ re­cent Learn to Act grad­u­a­tion show­case at Na­pari­ma Bowl in San Fer­nan­do.

A 26-year-old Pa­lo Seco man is ex­pect­ed to be charged with the mur­der of 12-year-old Mer­cedez Layne.

WASA Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer Dain Ma­haraj has con­demned what he de­scribed as a sec­ond brazen at­tack on the Au­thor­i­ty’s in­fra­struc­ture in less than 24 hours, fol­low­ing the theft of elec­tri­cal wiring at the Tabaquite Boost­er Sta­tion.

Head of the West­ern Di­vi­sion Snr Supt Sylvester Williams says the di­vi­sion has record­ed a re­duc­tion in sev­er­al cat­e­gories of crime this year, al­though kid­nap­pings, break-ins and fraud have in­creased.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) says an at­tempt­ed act of van­dal­ism at its Brechin Cas­tle Sub­sta­tion caused a sig­nif­i­cant volt­age dip across parts of the coun­try at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 9.45 a.m. to­day.

The Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion has be­gun in­stalling a re­versible lane con­trol sys­tem along the East­ern Main Road be­tween St. Joseph and Mt. Lam­bert as part of ef­forts to im­prove traf­fic flow and re­duce con­ges­tion along the busy cor­ri­dor.

The Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) has be­gun its probe in­to the po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing of a Par­latu­vi­er man dur­ing har­vest cel­e­bra­tions in To­ba­go on Mon­day.

The Unit­ed States launched airstrikes Wednes­day against Iran, and Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said more were com­ing, as Tehran fired back at coun­tries in the re­gion. The es­ca­lat­ing at­tacks threat­ened to de­rail ef­forts to end the war, with Trump warn­ing that Tehran would “pay the price” for stalled ne­go­ti­a­tions.

The Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO) says lev­els of health tax­es on al­co­hol and sug­ar sweet­ened bev­er­ages in the Amer­i­c­as re­main too low to sig­nif­i­cant­ly re­duce con­sump­tion and pre­vent non-com­mu­ni­ca­ble dis­eases (NCDs), even as the re­gion records some of the high­est con­sump­tion lev­els in the world.