The way has been cleared for the Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion to host its ex­ec­u­tive elec­tions.

Venezue­lans are fa­mil­iar with hard­ship — they have lived un­der a com­plex so­cial, eco­nom­ic and po­lit­i­cal cri­sis for more than a decade. Now, across the South Amer­i­can coun­try, they are find­ing them­selves hun­gry and un­able to buy food.

The St. Vin­cent and the Grenadines gov­ern­ment says it hopes ‘per­sua­sion’ will be ef­fec­tive as it seeks to vac­ci­nate 90 per cent of the girls aged 15 and un­der against the hu­man pa­pil­lo­mavirus (HPV) by 2030.

Short­ly af­ter all mo­torists were grant­ed ac­cess to the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route on Wednes­day morn­ing, that ac­cess has been re­voked to al­low for nor­mal op­er­a­tions on the PBR.

Steep U.S. tar­iffs on a range of In­di­an prod­ucts took ef­fect Wednes­day, threat­en­ing a se­ri­ous blow to In­dia’s over­seas trade in its largest ex­port mar­ket.

In­de­pen­dence Day in T&T can of­ten throw up some sur­pris­es, like the oc­ca­sions of the coun­try’s 40th an­niver­sary and 50th an­niver­sary.

A prison of­fi­cer with al­leged links to mur­der ac­cused Ra­jaee Ali, is one of the lat­est peo­ple to have a de­ten­tion or­der is­sued against him un­der the State of Emer­gency.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has fi­nal­ly bro­ken his si­lence on the al­leged threat against his life.

Sources in the De­fence Force say the pres­ence of US Naval ships in the Caribbean Sea was not dis­cussed dur­ing a meet­ing on Mon­day in­volv­ing se­nior mil­i­tary of­fi­cials. Sources, who asked not to be named, said the meet­ing was lim­it­ed to “do­mes­tic af­fairs” on­ly.

The Unit­ed States’ re­cent move to or­der ad­di­tion­al ships—in­clud­ing a nu­clear-pow­ered at­tack sub­ma­rine—to the south­ern Caribbean to ad­dress drug car­tel threats has been con­demned by Venezuela’s mis­sion to the Unit­ed Na­tions, which says the en­try of a nu­clear sub­ma­rine to the re­gion vi­o­lates treaties the US has signed.

The Don­ald Trump Unit­ed States (US) ad­min­is­tra­tion has hailed Trinidad and To­ba­go as an al­ly in its fight against Venezue­lan and Mex­i­can drug car­tels in the re­gion.

In the af­ter­math of a shock­ing at­tack on a cher­ished Clax­ton Bay shop­keep­er, a com­mu­ni­ty is now fear­ful, cling­ing to hope for di­vine in­ter­ven­tion and jus­tice amidst the chaos.