U.S. Vice Pres­i­dent JD Vance met Sat­ur­day with the Vat­i­can’s No. 2 of­fi­cial amid ten­sions over the U.S. crack­down on mi­grants, with the Holy See reaf­firm­ing good re­la­tions but not­ing “an ex­change of opin­ions” over cur­rent in­ter­na­tion­al con­flicts, mi­grants and pris­on­ers.

A 52-year-old man who con­fessed to the mur­der of 15-year-old autis­tic teenag­er Ma­li­ni Per­sad took his own life while in po­lice cus­tody, us­ing his pants to hang him­self in a cell at the Bar­rack­pore Po­lice Sta­tion.

The Fi­nance Min­istry has launched an SME Forex Win­dow via the Ex­port Im­port Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go (Ex­im­Bank), which it said will in­crease the avail­abil­i­ty of forex to small and medi­um-sized busi­ness­es. 

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) has ac­cept­ed the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer’s (CPO) five per cent of­fer for the pe­ri­od 2020 to 2023, spread at one per cent, one per cent and three per cent. The Cost of Liv­ing Al­lowance (CO­LA) was al­so ad­just­ed to $51 from Oc­to­ber 31, 2023.

Unit­ed States Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio has agreed to “work very close­ly” with the T&T Gov­ern­ment to find so­lu­tions to the Drag­on gas deal.

There was an in­creased po­lice pres­ence in and around the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port yes­ter­day, as of­fi­cers set up a se­cu­ri­ty net a day af­ter a Mar­aval man was gunned down mo­ments af­ter ar­riv­ing home from Pana­ma.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) can­di­date for Port-of-Spain South, Kei­th Scot­land, has con­firmed a mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar fish­ing fa­cil­i­ty is in the works for the Pro­duc­tion Dri­ve area.

The ex­ec­u­tive of the Avi­a­tion Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and Al­lied Work­ers’ Union (ACAWU) has dis­tanced it­self from com­ments made by its sec­re­tary gen­er­al Ru­di Atwell at the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ Labour Town Hall meet­ing in Tu­na­puna on Thurs­day.

They're all con­tin­u­ing at it with ever-in­creas­ing po­lit­i­cal tem­po - every ap­pear­ance seek­ing spot­light, every state­ment lob­by­ing sup­port. Politi­cians are head­ing through the clos­ing cur­rents of the Gen­er­al Elec­tion cam­paign in­to the start of spe­cial vot­ing, which be­gins on Mon­day. Here's some of what oc­curred on the plat­form in case you missed it:

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has been asked to in­crease the Dis­abil­i­ty Grant from $2,000 to $3,500 and to al­lo­cate food cards to the dis­abled com­mu­ni­ty if her par­ty forms the next gov­ern­ment.

Ro­man Catholic Arch­bish­op Ja­son Gor­don says T&T has lost its way and the on­ly way for so­ci­ety to find its way back is through ser­vice.

South­ern Vic­ari­ate Epis­co­pal Vic­ar, Fa­ther David Khan, yes­ter­day called on parish­ioners to be­come bea­cons of hope, as he not­ed the coun­try’s lead­ers had dis­ap­point­ed cit­i­zens.