The In­ter­na­tion­al Or­ga­ni­za­tion for Mi­gra­tion (IOM) Tues­day re­port­ed that over the past 48 hours, more than 4,500 peo­ple have be­come new­ly dis­placed due to on­go­ing in­se­cu­ri­ty in Haiti where crim­i­nal gangs have been seek­ing to over­throw the gov­ern­ment and in­crease the lev­el of in­se­cu­ri­ty in the French-speak­ing Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) coun­try.

A Bar­rack­pore busi­ness­man ap­peared be­fore Mas­ter Kim­i­tria Gray at the San Fer­nan­do High Court on Mon­day af­ter be­ing charged with fraud­u­lent con­ver­sion in the sum of $61,000 in re­la­tion to a down pay­ment for an im­port­ed Nis­san pan­el van that was nev­er de­liv­ered.

The per­son who killed moth­er of two Sher­ryann Roet at­tempt­ed to stage her death as a sui­cide, hop­ing to avoid sus­pi­cion. How­ev­er, an au­top­sy at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre re­vealed the grim truth—Roet had been beat­en to death be­fore be­ing hung from a tree.

Cab­i­net has ap­proved the cre­ation of a Hu­man­i­tar­i­an Lo­gis­tics and Sup­ply Chain Man­age­ment Unit with­in the Of­fice of Dis­as­ter Pre­pared­ness and Man­age­ment (ODPM). Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds an­nounced this de­vel­op­ment dur­ing his par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Caribbean Dis­as­ter Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency’s (CDE­MA) 13th Com­pre­hen­sive Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment (CDM) Con­fer­ence, held from De­cem­ber 2-6, 2024.

Ch­agua­nas West MP Di­nesh Ram­bal­ly says the gov­ern­ment’s slow pace in ad­dress­ing the repa­tri­a­tion of Trinida­di­an chil­dren de­tained in Syr­i­an camps has now been fur­ther com­pli­cat­ed by the re­cent oust­ing of Pres­i­dent Bashar al-As­sad in Syr­ia. 

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is seek­ing the pub­lic's as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing 59-year-old, Kr­ish­na Sinanan.

The Min­is­ter of Fi­nance, Colm Im­bert MP, has ac­cused the me­dia of en­gag­ing in a “smear” cam­paign against the air­port project in To­ba­go, along with “sup­pres­sion of sub­stan­tive ev­i­dence”—specif­i­cal­ly, doc­u­ments he says cor­rects “mis­in­for­ma­tion” about the project that has been cir­cu­lat­ing in the pub­lic do­main.

West In­dies fast bowler Alzarri Joseph has been fined 25 per cent of his match fee for breach­ing the ICC Code of Con­duct in the first One Day In­ter­na­tion­al against Bangladesh on Sun­day.

Pres­i­dent Ir­faan Ali on Tues­day an­nounced a 10 per cent retroac­tive salary in­crease for all pub­lic ser­vants and that peo­ple with aca­d­e­m­ic qual­i­fi­ca­tions will al­so ben­e­fit fi­nan­cial­ly as of Jan­u­ary next year.

As Hu­man Rights Day dawns on 10 De­cem­ber, it serves as a re­minder of the on­go­ing im­por­tance of equal­i­ty, jus­tice, and dig­ni­ty for all peo­ple world­wide.

One man is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court this week charged with sev­er­al firearm-re­lat­ed of­fences, aris­ing out of a re­port of Shoot­ing with In­tent, which oc­curred in the Care­nage dis­trict in Oc­to­ber 2024.

UN Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al An­tónio Guter­res has of­ten de­scribed hu­man rights as “the foun­da­tion for peace­ful, just, and in­clu­sive so­ci­eties”.  How­ev­er, in his mes­sage for World Hu­man Rights Day 2024, he is lament­ing the fact that, “Hu­man rights are un­der as­sault.”