Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ex­tend­ed her con­grat­u­la­tions to Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump on his re-elec­tion, say­ing it af­firms the progress, sta­bil­i­ty, and poli­cies that he cham­pi­oned in his first Pres­i­den­tial term.

Min­is­ter of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs, Dr. Amery Browne, has ex­tend­ed con­grat­u­la­tions to US Pres­i­dent Elect Don­ald Trump.

Re­ports say at around  6.15 pm of­fi­cers re­spond­ed to a re­port of a body ly­ing on the road­way at Fos­ter Queve­do.

The Copy­right Mu­sic Or­gan­i­sa­tion of T&T (COTT) has failed to suc­cess­ful­ly pros­e­cute its crim­i­nal copy­right in­fringe­ment com­plaint against a for­mer em­ploy­ee for al­leged­ly fail­ing to ob­tain a li­cence for a Car­ni­val fete in 2018. 

Around 3:00 am on Wednes­day, of­fi­cers from the Ma­yaro CID pro­ceed­ed to a gar­den camp ap­prox­i­mate­ly 150 feet along an agri­cul­tur­al ac­cess road off Food Crop Road, Dou­ble Bridge, Guayagua­yare Road, Ma­yaro, where Gabriel Hink­son, 39 years old, lived.

Po­lice of­fi­cers had to clear a path for ve­hi­cles go­ing in­to Trinidad Ce­ment Ltd (TCL) this morn­ing as re­tirees con­tin­ued their protest at the Clax­ton Bay-based plant this morn­ing.

Two weeks af­ter Cunu­pia busi­ness­man Su­vesh Ram­nar­ine was bun­dled in­to a black SUV by men pos­ing as po­lice of­fi­cers, he has been re­leased safe and un­harmed.

A po­lice of­fi­cer and an uniden­ti­fied man were killed dur­ing a shoot­ing out in Guapo this morn­ing. An­oth­er of­fi­cer was in­jured. 

Don­ald Trump was elect­ed the 47th pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States on Wednes­day, an ex­tra­or­di­nary come­back for a for­mer pres­i­dent who re­fused to ac­cept de­feat four years ago, sparked a vi­o­lent in­sur­rec­tion at the U.S. Capi­tol, was con­vict­ed of felony charges and sur­vived two as­sas­si­na­tion at­tempts.

Cu­mu­to/Man­zanil­la MP Dr Rai Rag­bir says he is hap­py to hear that screen­ing in the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) is fi­nal­ly tak­ing place. How­ev­er, he is con­cerned at the lack of in­for­ma­tion, and he fears that the UNC is con­duct­ing its af­fairs in a “hap­haz­ard and un­pro­fes­sion­al man­ner.”

Of­fi­cials of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) are mum on whether gen­er­al coun­cil mem­ber Jen­nifer Bap­tiste-Primus has been “spo­ken to” or may face dis­ci­pli­nary ac­tion for her cri­tique of Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s state­ments on why the par­ty’s con­ven­tion was post­poned.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert has an­nounced plans to con­sult with stake­hold­ers on chang­ing the method for al­lo­cat­ing for­eign ex­change. The dis­cus­sions will out­line the path to­ward achiev­ing eq­ui­table dis­tri­b­u­tion.