The U.S. Olympic & Par­a­lympic Com­mit­tee placed an em­ploy­ee on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave Thurs­day af­ter The As­so­ci­at­ed Press re­port­ed that one of its coach­es was ac­cused of sex­u­al­ly abus­ing a young biath­lete, caus­ing her so much dis­tress that she at­tempt­ed sui­cide.

Eigh­teen coun­tries from Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean (LAC) have launched the Al­liance for Se­cu­ri­ty, Jus­tice and De­vel­op­ment, an un­prece­dent­ed al­liance which unites gov­ern­ments, mul­ti­lat­er­al or­ga­ni­za­tions, and civ­il so­ci­ety to ad­dress or­ga­nized crime.

The Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (AATT) has fi­nal­ized col­lec­tive agree­ments with the Es­tate Po­lice As­so­ci­a­tion (EPA), grant­i­ng a 4% salary in­crease for se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cers at the na­tion's air­ports. 

The po­lit­i­cal cli­mate is heat­ing up, af­ter the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) yes­ter­day be­gan ef­forts to forge al­liances with small­er po­lit­i­cal par­ties and promi­nent trade unions to take on the rul­ing Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment in the next gen­er­al elec­tion.

Hours af­ter the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress an­nounced it was meet­ing with small­er par­ties and some trade unions, the Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) said it would “drink wa­ter and mind its busi­ness.”

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has an­gri­ly de­nied that T&T has any in­ten­tions of al­low­ing US troops to set up base here to re­spond in case of in­sta­bil­i­ty in neigh­bour­ing Venezuela, as the Unit­ed States’ gov­ern­ment has stepped up pres­sure against Venezuela.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is de­fend­ing Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert amidst calls for his res­ig­na­tion from the Op­po­si­tion, for al­leged­ly at­tempt­ing to mis­lead the pub­lic by un­der­stat­ing the cost over­runs for the ANR Robin­son Air­port ex­pan­sion project.

The hor­rif­ic crash in Cou­va that claimed the lives of two se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cers yes­ter­day pushed road fa­tal­i­ties for this year to 115.

With 18 days re­main­ing in the year, road fa­tal­i­ties stand at 115— a 21 per cent in­crease com­pared to the 95 deaths for the same pe­ri­od in 2023.

Po­lice have de­tained a woman for al­leged­ly lock­ing her two young sons in a dog ken­nel at their home.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has al­leged “col­lu­sion” be­tween the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) and the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), crit­i­cis­ing the EBC’s fail­ure to up­date the vot­er list across all 41 con­stituen­cies through its na­tion­al field ver­i­fi­ca­tion ex­er­cise.

Cab­i­net has ap­proved an in­crease in fund­ing for un­spon­sored steel­bands and steel­pan play­ers.