The fol­low­ing is the bul­letin is­sued by the Met Ser­vice to 06:00 am, to­day, cov­er­ing the pe­ri­od: to­day un­til mid­night…

A re­cent­ly es­tab­lished re­gion­al Crime Gun In­tel­li­gence Unit (CGIU) head­quar­tered in T&T will be among the ben­e­fi­cia­ries of an in­vest­ment of more than US$100 mil­lion by the Gov­ern­ment of the Unit­ed States that will be used to crack down on weapons traf­fick­ing, help al­le­vi­ate Haiti’s hu­man­i­tar­i­an cri­sis and sup­port cli­mate change ini­tia­tives.

For years, Cor­pus Christi has been re­gard­ed as the ide­al time for farm­ers and home gar­den­ers to plant crops. It is be­lieved that any­thing plant­ed on the day will thrive, thanks to the an­tic­i­pat­ed rains. How­ev­er, this year there was a no­tice­able de­cline in plant­i­ng ac­tiv­i­ty, rais­ing con­cerns among agri­cul­tur­al en­thu­si­asts.

There was an in­crease in fa­tal road ac­ci­dents last year with 95 deaths com­pared to 69 in 2021, a 38 per cent in­crease. The num­ber of road deaths rose from 75 in 2021 to 95 in 2022, re­flect­ing a 27 per cent in­crease in lives lost.

T&T is rav­aged by crime, vi­o­lence and sin and lead­ers must ask them­selves what have they done to make the coun­try bet­ter, Ro­man Catholic priest Fa­ther David Khan said yes­ter­day.

Gov­ern­ment and the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) came un­der heavy fire from the pub­lic and crit­i­cal thinkers for the coun­try’s spi­ralling crime at a de­bate host­ed by the British Broad­cast­ing Cor­po­ra­tion (BBC) on Wednes­day.

Ro­man Catholic Arch­bish­op Ja­son Gor­don urged cit­i­zens to demon­strate deep­er re­spect for one an­oth­er and warned that if ef­forts are not made to ar­rest the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion, it could mean con­tin­ued dis­re­spect for Je­sus Christ.

Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan says land­slip re­pairs have been ramped up with three sep­a­rate units work­ing to re­pair slip­pages and di­lap­i­dat­ed roads.

Many back­yard gar­den­ers use Cor­pus Christi as a spe­cial oc­ca­sion to plant their crops. On Wednes­day sev­er­al per­sons were spot­ted pur­chas­ing plants and oth­er agri­cul­tur­al sup­plies.

Mem­bers of the US Con­gress, Con­gress­man Joaquin Cas­tro (TX-20), Con­gress­woman María Elvi­ra Salazar (FL-27), and Con­gress­man Adri­ano Es­pail­lat (NY-13) are pi­lot­ing leg­is­la­tion which they hope could mod­ernise U.S. en­gage­ment with Caribbean na­tions.

The BBC brought its pop­u­lar World Ques­tions town hall to Trinidad last night at the Cen­tral Bank Au­di­to­ri­um dis­cussing wide-rang­ing top­ics like crime, cli­mate change and en­er­gy de­pen­den­cy, race re­la­tions, and LGBT+ rights, fea­tur­ing ques­tions, and com­ments, from a live­ly au­di­ence.

Pat Robert­son, a re­li­gious broad­cast­er who turned a tiny Vir­ginia sta­tion in­to the glob­al Chris­t­ian Broad­cast­ing Net­work, tried a run for pres­i­dent and helped make re­li­gion cen­tral to Re­pub­li­can Par­ty pol­i­tics in Amer­i­ca through his Chris­t­ian Coali­tion, has died. He was 93.