A US fed­er­al judge, who was born in Trinidad and To­ba­go, has come un­der fire by a US Con­gress­woman and an of­fi­cial from the De­part­ment of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty, af­ter she blocked the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion from cre­at­ing a cen­tralised data­base con­tain­ing So­cial Se­cu­ri­ty num­bers, in­for­ma­tion about vot­ers’ cit­i­zen­ship sta­tus, and oth­er sen­si­tive da­ta.

The Caribbean As­so­ci­a­tion for Fem­i­nist Re­search and Ac­tion, Trinidad and To­ba­go (CAFRA TT) has ex­pressed con­cern over the ar­rest of ac­tivist Alyssa Phillip dur­ing Labour Day cel­e­bra­tions in Fyz­abad, de­scrib­ing the in­ci­dent as a trou­bling de­vel­op­ment for free­dom of ex­pres­sion and as­sem­bly.

A Mara­bel­la busi­ness is count­ing loss­es of al­most US$50,000 af­ter thieves broke in­to its ware­house and stole thou­sands of brass com­po­nents over the long week­end.

A 34-year-old man has been charged with rob­bery with vi­o­lence fol­low­ing an at­tack in St Julien Vil­lage, Princes Town, ear­li­er this month.