For­mer com­mis­sion­er of po­lice Gary Grif­fith has hit back at Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro, chal­leng­ing his lead­er­ship and per­for­mance in a strong­ly word­ed state­ment.

The Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre of Trinidad and To­ba­go has strong­ly con­demned re­marks made by for­mer prime min­is­ter Kei­th Row­ley about Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, warn­ing that such lan­guage un­der­mines the dig­ni­ty of pub­lic of­fice and the stan­dard of na­tion­al lead­er­ship.

Com­mer­cial flights be­tween the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic and Venezuela re­sumed on Wednes­day with the re­turn of op­er­a­tions by Laser Air­lines, af­ter near­ly two years of sus­pen­sion that be­gan in Ju­ly 2024.

The Pen­ta­gon is seek­ing $200 bil­lion in ad­di­tion­al funds for the Iran war, a siz­able amount that is cer­tain to be met with ques­tions from Con­gress, which would need to ap­prove any new mon­ey.

Whether it’s the Unit­ed States trade em­bar­go to counter Fi­del Cas­tro’s 1959 rev­o­lu­tion, or the wide­spread star­va­tion of the “spe­cial pe­ri­od” that fol­lowed the breakup of its Cold War pa­tron, the So­vi­et Union, both U.S. hos­til­i­ties and calami­ties of its own mak­ing have proven no match for the coun­try’s lead­er­ship.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers from the Besson Street Po­lice Sta­tion re­spond­ed to a re­port of a fire at a house along Con­ces­sion Dri­ve at 11 am. When they ar­rived, they found a two-storey un­fin­ished con­crete struc­ture still smoul­der­ing af­ter the blaze had been ex­tin­guished by fire of­fi­cers.

Camille Robin­son-Reg­is has voiced con­cern over con­flict­ing re­ports about for­mer Prime Min­is­ter and Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) po­lit­i­cal leader Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s at­ten­dance at the par­ty’s 70th an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tions.

The par­ents of 16-year-old Jay­lon George, who is the first mi­nor de­tained un­der the cur­rent State of Emer­gency (SoE), say he is in­no­cent of the al­le­ga­tions made against him by the po­lice.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the kid­nap­ping of a 23-year-old Aranguez, San Juan man, af­ter a US$50,000 ran­som de­mand was made for his safe re­lease.

Twen­ty-eight-year-old Rashme Deoa­jit was con­sid­ered a crick­et star with­in her rur­al com­mu­ni­ty, with a bright fu­ture ahead of her.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the re­moval of the Unit­ed States-in­stalled radar in To­ba­go should not come as a sur­prise, main­tain­ing that the high-tech, mil­i­tary-grade equip­ment was al­ways in­tend­ed to be tem­po­rary.

Mem­bers of Cab­i­net have ral­lied in de­fence of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar af­ter for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley used a deroga­to­ry term to de­scribe her char­ac­ter.