Pa­tri­ot­ic Front leader Mick­ela Pan­day has crit­i­cised Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s han­dling of ques­tions sur­round­ing US mil­i­tary strikes in the re­gion, say­ing her re­spons­es show con­fu­sion, de­nial, and a lack of aware­ness about an in­ter­na­tion­al in­ci­dent un­fold­ing close to Trinidad and To­ba­go.

In the days be­fore his death, Rus­sell Be­dasse post­ed about the agony he felt over the in­jus­tices he faced af­ter los­ing both his moth­er, Shelawai­htie Be­dasse and re­stric­tions over the vis­i­ta­tion rights of his 11-year-old daugh­ter.

The North West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NWRHA) is set to pay com­pen­sa­tion to a 80-year-old woman with schiz­o­phre­nia, who suf­fered in­juries while re­ceiv­ing treat­ment at the St Ann’s Psy­chi­atric Hos­pi­tal in 2016.

BEI­JING, CHI­NA—Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is un­both­ered by re­gion­al diplo­mats who don’t agree with her views on the Caribbean.

“Every­thing I loss,” lament­ed 74-year-old pen­sion­er Hen­ry Dick as he looked at the ru­ins of his home in San Fer­nan­do fol­low­ing a fire which he be­lieved was de­lib­er­ate­ly set.

Com­mu­ni­ty ac­tivist and Mus­lim cler­ic Iman Rasheed Karim has ig­nit­ed a fresh row over the Gov­ern­ment’s pro­posed land­lord tax, ac­cus­ing of­fi­cials of ram­ming through dra­con­ian leg­is­la­tion with­out even the cour­tesy of pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion.

Six men, in­clud­ing three po­lice of­fi­cers, have been freed of hu­man traf­fick­ing and child sex­u­al as­sault of­fences due to is­sues in pros­e­cut­ing their case.

Presto has tak­en an­oth­er step in its push to re­shape agri­cul­tur­al learn­ing in pri­ma­ry schools, de­liv­er­ing its fifth Hy­dro­pon­ics Gar­den this time to El So­cor­ro South Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School. The in­stal­la­tion, hand­ed over on Tues­day, equips stu­dents with the tools and train­ing to grow let­tuce, chive, cel­ery, and sweet pep­pers us­ing clean, ef­fi­cient, soil-free tech­nol­o­gy that mir­rors mod­ern farm­ing prac­tices.

US forces have seized a sanc­tioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, ac­cord­ing to sev­er­al in­ter­na­tion­al news agen­cies.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice has ex­pand­ed its na­tion­al re­sponse to gen­der-based vi­o­lence through a part­ner­ship with the Trinidad and To­ba­go Blind Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion to sup­port vi­su­al­ly im­paired per­sons.

Cit­i­zens Against Noise Pol­lu­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (CANPTT) has wel­comed the pas­sage of the Fire­works Reg­u­la­tion Bill in Par­lia­ment. The group said the de­vel­op­ment fol­lowed years of ad­vo­ca­cy, pub­lic con­cern and harm to cit­i­zens and an­i­mals.

Oil­field Work­ers' Trade Union (OW­TU) Pres­i­dent Gen­er­al An­cel Ro­get has fol­lowed through on his threat to sue for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley for defama­tion.