Busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve have lost their bid to se­cure their free­dom while they pur­sue a case chal­leng­ing their de­ten­tion un­der the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) over an al­leged plot to as­sas­si­nate key gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials.

The Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) will con­vene a meet­ing of rep­re­sen­ta­tives from mem­ber states and oth­er key stake­hold­ers to ex­am­ine is­sues af­fect­ing Rasta­far­i­ans across the re­gion.

Fifty-nine house­holds across cen­tral Trinidad have re­ceived more than $462,000 in Gov­ern­ment as­sis­tance through dis­as­ter re­lief and home re­pair grants aimed at help­ing vul­ner­a­ble fam­i­lies re­cov­er and re­build.

Le­Bron James will not be back with the Los An­ge­les Lak­ers and plans to play a record-ex­tend­ing 24th NBA sea­son else­where.

A di­vid­ed U.S. Supreme Court on Tues­day up­held a broad con­cep­tion of birthright cit­i­zen­ship, re­ject­ing Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s ex­ec­u­tive or­der de­clar­ing that chil­dren born to peo­ple who are in the Unit­ed States il­le­gal­ly or tem­porar­i­ly are not Amer­i­can cit­i­zens.

Aid groups warned Tues­day that Venezuela’s frag­ile health­care sys­tem is be­ing pushed to its lim­its near­ly a week af­ter two pow­er­ful earth­quakes, with dam­aged and un­der­staffed hos­pi­tals over­whelmed by the in­jured and de­te­ri­o­rat­ing con­di­tions in the dis­as­ter zone caus­ing in­fec­tious dis­eases to spread.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is ap­peal­ing to the pub­lic for as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing 16-year-old Tia Ram­sey, who was re­port­ed miss­ing on Mon­day.

Em­ploy­ees of bot­tled wa­ter man­u­fac­tur­er Blue Wa­ters Lim­it­ed were yes­ter­day as­sured that op­er­a­tions re­main un­af­fect­ed and their jobs se­cure, fol­low­ing a com­pa­ny-wide meet­ing con­vened by man­age­ment amid on­go­ing con­cerns sur­round­ing the de­ten­tion of the com­pa­ny’s own­er, Do­minic Hadeed.

Al­though the Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) for busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve are yet to be gazetted, in­for­ma­tion con­tin­ues to emerge on the con­tribut­ing fac­tors that led to their ar­rest.

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve were yes­ter­day giv­en a day to analyse po­lice records re­lat­ed to the duo’s ar­rests and de­ten­tion for an al­leged mur­der con­spir­a­cy, to de­ter­mine whether they will pro­ceed with lit­i­ga­tion over the is­sue.

Sev­en al­leged gang­sters, in­clud­ing a gang leader, were or­dered to be de­tained at two fa­cil­i­ties in Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders gazetted yes­ter­day.

The Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC) is ex­pect­ing to give its re­port on Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro soon, says chair­man Dr Wen­dell Wal­lace.