The plane used by the U.S. mil­i­tary to strike a boat ac­cused of smug­gling drugs off the coast of Venezuela last fall was paint­ed to look like a civil­ian air­craft, a move that ap­pears to be at odds with the Pen­ta­gon’s man­u­al on the laws of war.

Free­dom came too late for Edil­son Tor­res. The po­lice of­fi­cer was buried Tues­day in his hum­ble, rur­al home­town fol­low­ing his death in a Venezue­lan prison, where he was held in­com­mu­ni­ca­do since his De­cem­ber de­ten­tion on what his fam­i­ly said were po­lit­i­cal­ly mo­ti­vat­ed ac­cu­sa­tions.

The Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NATUC) has con­grat­u­lat­ed the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) fol­low­ing its vic­to­ry in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tions.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice has clar­i­fied that of­fi­cers are re­quired to re­lease a ve­hi­cle if the dri­ver or per­son in con­trol ap­pears while the ve­hi­cle is be­ing hooked up to a wreck­er, pro­vid­ed the ve­hi­cle has not yet been re­moved from where it was parked.

In the midst of a dif­fi­cult eco­nom­ic head­wind, sev­er­al re­tail­ers with­in the beau­ty in­dus­try are hop­ing a col­lab­o­ra­tive ef­fort can help them nav­i­gate this pe­ri­od.

Po­lice were con­tact­ed af­ter the child was tak­en un­re­spon­sive to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal by his par­ents around 5:25 am on Mon­day. He was pro­nounced dead at about 5:48 am.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment has for­mal­ly re­quest­ed re­counts in the Dar­rel Spring Whim and Scar­bor­ough Mt Grace elec­toral dis­tricts fol­low­ing yes­ter­day’s To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tions, with the re­counts sched­uled to be­gin at 3 pm to­day.

The Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NATUC) has con­grat­u­lat­ed the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) fol­low­ing its vic­to­ry in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tions.

Tragedy struck in Siparia on Mon­day when a sawmill own­er was killed af­ter be­ing trapped be­neath a falling tree.

Three men were ar­rest­ed by po­lice min­utes af­ter they stole choco­late and fruit snacks from a goods truck in St Joseph on Mon­day.

De­spite se­cur­ing a clean sweep in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tions, the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty says it will gov­ern in the in­ter­est of all To­bag­o­ni­ans, re­gard­less of po­lit­i­cal af­fil­i­a­tion.

Rus­sia launched a sec­ond ma­jor drone and mis­sile bom­bard­ment of Ukraine in four days, of­fi­cials said Tues­day, aim­ing again at the pow­er grid and ap­par­ent­ly snub­bing U.S.-led peace ef­forts as the war ap­proach­es the four-year mark.