A 44-year-old labour­er who was gunned down at his aunt’s home in Gas­par­il­lo yes­ter­day morn­ing had been charged 17 times for var­i­ous of­fences, in­clud­ing firearm-re­lat­ed crimes, po­lice have con­firmed.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe has re­quest­ed a re­port from the South West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) CEO Dr Bri­an Ar­mour on the two non-func­tion­al CT scan­ners at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

Still try­ing to un­der­stand what caused the fire that de­stroyed his home on Tues­day, a Rio Claro gar­den­er is now seek­ing as­sis­tance to re­build.

As un­cer­tain­ty grows in Trinidad and To­ba­go over new Unit­ed States visa poli­cies that in­volve mon­i­tor­ing stu­dent so­cial me­dia, the Chi­nese Em­bassy has re­newed its call for T&T stu­dents to con­sid­er aca­d­e­m­ic op­por­tu­ni­ties in Chi­na.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe has con­firmed that re­cent sub­vari­ants of COVID-19, in­clud­ing those cir­cu­lat­ing glob­al­ly, have not been de­tect­ed in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Prais­ing God for her bless­ings, grand­moth­er Geneive Pierre broke down in tears af­ter learn­ing that a Good Samar­i­tan had of­fered to pur­chase land and build a house for her af­ter hers col­lapsed last Mon­day.

For­mer Min­is­ter of Tourism, Cul­ture, and the Arts Ran­dall Mitchell has re­ject­ed claims made by Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Ed­ward Alexan­der that beach chair rental op­er­a­tors are part of a gang en­ter­prise.

For­mer chief mag­is­trate Mar­cia Ay­ers-Cae­sar has qui­et­ly re­sumed du­ties as a High Court Judge, weeks af­ter the Privy Coun­cil ruled she was im­prop­er­ly pres­sured to re­sign in 2017. Though she re­turned last month, her name has not yet been added to the Ju­di­cia­ry’s of­fi­cial list of judges. Le­gal sources say she has so far han­dled on­ly cham­ber mat­ters.

The US Em­bassy on Wednes­day warned that us­ing a visa to trav­el for the pri­ma­ry pur­pose of giv­ing birth in the Unit­ed States, so that the child will have U.S. cit­i­zen­ship, is not per­mit­ted, and Con­sular of­fi­cers will de­ny a visa ap­pli­ca­tion if they have rea­son to be­lieve this is in­tent of the trav­el to the coun­try.

Ja­cho En­ter­tain­ment, the en­ter­tain­ment pro­mo­tion com­pa­ny of the One Caribbean Mu­sic Fes­ti­val, says it con­duct­ed all for­eign ex­change trans­ac­tions for the con­cert through “le­gal, reg­u­lat­ed, and ver­i­fi­able fi­nan­cial chan­nels.”

The Min­istry of De­fence says it is aware of re­cent re­ports con­cern­ing a claim made by the Pres­i­dent of Venezuela, Nico­las Maduro, al­leg­ing the in­fil­tra­tion by Colom­bian para­mil­i­tary groups in­to east­ern Venezuela through Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Chargé d’Af­faires at the U.S. Em­bassy, Dr. Jenifer Nei­d­hart de Or­tiz, paid a cour­tesy call on Min­is­ter of Hous­ing David Lee, and Min­is­ters in the Min­istry of Hous­ing, Anil Roberts and Phillip Ed­ward Alexan­der on Wednes­day.