The coun­try's alert sta­tus has been down­grad­ed to GREEN as the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice has dis­con­tin­ued its ear­li­er Ad­verse Weath­er Alert-Yel­low Lev­el.

Of­fi­cers of the Ari­ma Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice ar­rest­ed a man for al­leged­ly pos­sess­ing MD­MA and res­cued a kid­nap­ping vic­tim dur­ing sep­a­rate op­er­a­tions on Sat­ur­day.

The Bel­gian soc­cer fed­er­a­tion wants ex­pla­na­tion from FI­FA about a de­ci­sion to let U.S for­ward Fo­lar­in Ba­lo­gun play at the World Cup de­spite get­ting a red card in his pre­vi­ous game.

A 39-year-old se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer was stabbed to death dur­ing an al­ter­ca­tion in Princes Town on Sun­day af­ter­noon af­ter con­fronting a woman and the man she was with, po­lice said.

Eu­ro­pean soc­cer body UE­FA crit­i­cized FI­FA for an “in­com­pre­hen­si­ble and un­jus­ti­fi­able de­ci­sion” to let Unit­ed States for­ward Fo­lar­in Ba­lo­gun play at the World Cup against Bel­gium on Mon­day de­spite a red card in his pre­vi­ous game.

U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump in­ter­vened on be­half of star U.S. for­ward Fo­lar­in Ba­lo­gun, whose red-card sus­pen­sion was lift­ed in a de­ci­sion that al­lows him to play in a World Cup match against Bel­gium on Mon­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice has is­sued a yel­low lev­el ad­verse weath­er alert for Trinidad and To­ba­go and sur­round­ing wa­ters, warn­ing of a high chance of heavy show­ers and thun­der­storms from 1.30 a.m. to 12 noon to­day.

The Na­tion­al Trust of Trinidad and To­ba­go has launched a na­tion­wide pro­gramme to as­sess the con­di­tion of more than 300 known ar­chae­o­log­i­cal sites as it races to doc­u­ment and pro­tect the coun­try’s an­cient her­itage from de­vel­op­ment and en­vi­ron­men­tal change.

As the Gov­ern­ment moves to in­tro­duce a Con­tin­u­ous As­sess­ment Com­po­nent (CAC) for pri­ma­ry school stu­dents, an autism ad­vo­cate is urg­ing ed­u­ca­tion of­fi­cials to en­sure the new sys­tem is de­signed to ac­com­mo­date chil­dren with autism and oth­er learn­ing dis­abil­i­ties.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath has pledged to make long-await­ed re­pairs to San Fer­nan­do Cen­tral Sec­ondary School a pri­or­i­ty af­ter the school’s prin­ci­pal re­vealed it has main­tained out­stand­ing aca­d­e­m­ic re­sults de­spite years of in­ad­e­quate fa­cil­i­ties.

A 23-year-old Venezue­lan na­tion­al was shot dead and an­oth­er Venezue­lan man wound­ed in a shoot­ing out­side a bar in Pe­nal dur­ing the ear­ly hours of Sun­day, just me­tres from the Pe­nal Po­lice Sta­tion.

Re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions across Trinidad and To­ba­go are co­or­di­nat­ing a na­tion­wide re­lief ef­fort to as­sist com­mu­ni­ties in Venezuela af­fect­ed by a re­cent earth­quake, with emer­gency sup­plies be­ing col­lect­ed, sort­ed and pre­pared for ship­ment.