The Min­istry of Health has ad­vised Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als to avoid trav­el­ling to three African coun­tries af­fect­ed by an out­break of Ebo­la Bundibu­gyo virus dis­ease and warned that re­turn­ing trav­ellers from those coun­tries will face en­hanced health screen­ing and mon­i­tor­ing mea­sures.

A Gas­par­il­lo man was shot and wound­ed af­ter two in­trud­ers broke in­to his home de­mand­ing mon­ey, drugs and a cell­phone.

Two women were tied up and threat­ened af­ter ban­dits broke in­to their Clax­ton Bay home ear­ly Mon­day morn­ing.

Par­ents of stu­dents at Cedar Grove Pri­vate School have raised con­cerns over the han­dling of a ro­dent prob­lem at the in­sti­tu­tion, al­leg­ing that dead ro­dents were found in­side school walls and that some stu­dents and teach­ers re­mained in class­rooms af­fect­ed by foul odours.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is de­fend­ing her Gov­ern­ment’s move to seek a three-month ex­ten­sion of the State of Emer­gency (SoE), in­sist­ing the mea­sure is tem­po­rary but nec­es­sary to pro­tect cit­i­zens from vi­o­lent crime af­ter what she de­scribed as decades of blood­shed and in­se­cu­ri­ty.

Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Ju­nior Ben­jamin has con­firmed that 332 Pre­ven­ta­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) have been ex­e­cut­ed dur­ing the present State of Emer­gency de­clared on March 3.

As ad­vo­ca­cy groups re­new calls for stronger mea­sures to pro­tect chil­dren fol­low­ing the mur­der of 12-year-old Mer­cedez Layne, po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tors vis­it­ed the sus­pect’s home and oth­er key lo­ca­tions as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue.

The death of an in­mate at the Arou­ca Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP) yes­ter­day morn­ing has reignit­ed con­cerns over prison staffing lev­els and the abil­i­ty of of­fi­cers to ad­e­quate­ly pro­tect in­mates.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says Cab­i­net is con­sid­er­ing mea­sures aimed at im­prov­ing pub­lic trans­porta­tion ser­vices and re­duc­ing re­liance on un­reg­u­lat­ed PH taxi op­er­a­tors fol­low­ing grow­ing pub­lic con­cern in the wake of the mur­der of 12-year-old Mer­cedez Layne.

A coali­tion of 13 in­de­pen­dent trade unions, call­ing them­selves the Pro­gres­sive In­de­pen­dent Trade Unions, has for­mal­ly re­quest­ed an ur­gent meet­ing with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar over State of Emer­gency (SoE) reg­u­la­tions re­strict­ing pub­lic demon­stra­tions with­in 500 me­tres of 15 des­ig­nat­ed lo­ca­tions, even as the Gov­ern­ment sig­nals it is not back­ing down on na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures in­tro­duced un­der the emer­gency frame­work.

Ten-year-old Eme Eton has com­plet­ed her Caribbean Sec­ondary Ed­u­ca­tion Cer­tifi­cate (CSEC) ex­am­i­na­tions, mark­ing a rare aca­d­e­m­ic mile­stone at her age.

A Trinida­di­an is one of four Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) na­tion­als, among 17 for­eign­ers, against whom the De­part­ment of Jus­tice says it has filed de­nat­u­ral­i­sa­tion ac­tions in var­i­ous US dis­trict courts, ac­cus­ing them of se­ri­ous of­fences, in­clud­ing sex­u­al abuse of a mi­nor, wire and bank fraud and dis­trib­ut­ing drugs whole­sale with­out a li­cence.