A man who was cap­tured on video cut­ting off a dog’s head in San Fer­nan­do this week­end has been charged. 

Amidst the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE), cit­i­zens who be­lieve they have been wrong­ful­ly searched or de­tained by the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) are be­ing re­mind­ed of their right to file com­plaints. 

The Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (POA) has ex­pressed con­cern over what it de­scribes as “knee-jerk de­ci­sions” by the Gov­ern­ment in ad­dress­ing T&T’s crime chal­lenges, par­tic­u­lar­ly dur­ing the re­cent­ly de­clared State of Emer­gency (SoE).

Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nico­las Maduro will be sworn in for a third term Fri­day, while hun­dreds of gov­ern­ment op­po­nents ar­rest­ed since his dis­put­ed re­elec­tion last sum­mer lan­guish in the coun­try’s packed pris­ons.

The Min­istry of Health (MoH) has in­di­cat­ed they are ac­tive­ly mon­i­tor­ing the sit­u­a­tion of a rise in res­pi­ra­to­ry dis­eases in Chi­na. 

A World Bank del­e­ga­tion is to hold talks with of­fi­cials from the from the St. Lu­cia gov­ern­ment and the Or­gan­i­sa­tion of East­ern Caribbean States (OECS) on eval­u­at­ing and en­hanc­ing na­tion­al da­ta sys­tems.

Bar­ba­dos health au­thor­i­ties say they have no cred­i­ble in­for­ma­tion sug­gest­ing an out­break of res­pi­ra­to­ry ill­ness in Chi­na in­volv­ing var­i­ous virus­es, in­clud­ing Hu­man Metap­neu­movirus (HM­PV).

Cal­i­for­nia fire­fight­ers bat­tled wind-whipped wild­fires that tore across the Los An­ge­les area, de­stroy­ing homes, clog­ging road­ways as tens of thou­sands fled and strain­ing re­sources as the fires burned un­con­tained ear­ly Wednes­day.

When An­tho­ny La Fleur, bet­ter known as Squeezy Rankin, was 17 years old, he com­posed a song for a man named Le­ston, from La Hor­quet­ta, who died.

Leader of Gov­ern­ment Busi­ness Camille Robin­son-Reg­is is deny­ing there is any fric­tion or an­i­mos­i­ty with­in the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), de­spite the fact that al­most half of its Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment did not sup­port Stu­art Young to suc­ceed Dr Kei­th Row­ley as Prime Min­is­ter.

The peo­ple of Ari­ma are dis­ap­point­ed that MP Pen­ne­lope Beck­les was over­looked for the prime min­is­ter­ship of the coun­try in favour of Stu­art Young.

In­com­ing prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young has rub­bished UNC leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s ac­cu­sa­tions about him, say­ing he will not be dis­tract­ed.