Ten­sions con­tin­ue to mount in the Caribbean Sea, af­ter two Venezue­lan F-16 fight­er jets flew near the USS Ja­son Dun­ham in in­ter­na­tion­al wa­ters Thurs­day, an ac­tion the Pen­ta­gon de­scribed as “high­ly provoca­tive.”

Par­ents do­ing last-minute shop­ping in Port-of- Spain say they are grate­ful for the Gov­ern­ment’s one-week ex­ten­sion to the Ju­ly-Au­gust va­ca­tion, as it gave them more time to earn the mon­ey for school­books and sup­plies.

For­mer na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter Gary Grif­fith has thrown his sup­port be­hind the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to de­com­mis­sion the his­toric Port-of-Spain Prison, de­scrib­ing it as a long over­due step in the right di­rec­tion.

A Caribbean Air­lines Lim­it­ed (CAL) pi­lot has been re­port­ed miss­ing. Po­lice said 59-year-old Daniel Kawall of Palm Road, Val­sayn North, went miss­ing along with his ve­hi­cle, a Toy­ota Hilux reg­is­tered TCM 1787, on Wednes­day, Sep­tem­ber 3. His fam­i­ly said his last com­mu­ni­ca­tion with them was at 5 pm that day. Calls to his phone have since gone straight to voice­mail, prompt­ing rel­a­tives to file a miss­ing per­son re­port with po­lice.