Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the kid­nap­ping of a 23-year-old Aranguez, San Juan man, af­ter a US$50,000 ran­som de­mand was made for his safe re­lease.

Twen­ty-eight-year-old Rashme Deoa­jit was con­sid­ered a crick­et star with­in her rur­al com­mu­ni­ty, with a bright fu­ture ahead of her.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the re­moval of the Unit­ed States-in­stalled radar in To­ba­go should not come as a sur­prise, main­tain­ing that the high-tech, mil­i­tary-grade equip­ment was al­ways in­tend­ed to be tem­po­rary.

Mem­bers of Cab­i­net have ral­lied in de­fence of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar af­ter for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley used a deroga­to­ry term to de­scribe her char­ac­ter.

For­mer prime min­is­ter and po­lit­i­cal leader of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), Dr Kei­th Row­ley, is stand­ing firm on his claim that he was not in­vit­ed to the par­ty’s 70th an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tions, de­spite the par­ty pro­duc­ing ev­i­dence to the con­trary.

One year af­ter the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) called the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion, the par­ty is re­flect­ing on a po­lit­i­cal turn­ing point that end­ed its decade in gov­ern­ment.

A sharp war of words be­tween the cur­rent and for­mer heads of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has height­ened ten­sions over the per­ceived in­de­pen­dence of the coun­try’s top law en­force­ment of­fice.

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers is firm­ly re­ject­ing claims by for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley that the now-re­moved radar in To­ba­go was de­ployed sole­ly to sup­port a Unit­ed States op­er­a­tion tar­get­ing Nicolás Maduro.

Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA), Crys­tal Ashe, has ex­pressed grave con­cern fol­low­ing re­ports that teach­ers in To­ba­go will not re­ceive their re­vised salaries this month.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has clar­i­fied his re­cent con­tro­ver­sial re­marks re­gard­ing the 2014 mur­der of spe­cial pros­e­cu­tor Dana See­ta­hal.

De­fence Min­is­ter and To­co/San­gre Grande Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment Wayne Sturge has con­firmed that he will not at­tend the fu­ner­al of San­gre Grande busi­ness­man Dan­ny Guer­ra to­day.

A busi­ness­man has won his law­suit against Re­pub­lic Bank Ltd over a US$30,000 cred­it card re­bate for ex­pens­es in­curred dur­ing a med­ical emer­gency abroad.