The pres­i­dent of the To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion (TH­TA), Regi­nald MacLean, says a re­cent US trav­el ad­vi­so­ry is dam­ag­ing to To­ba­go’s tourism sec­tor and to­tal­ly un­fair.

The foren­sic au­top­sy on the body of 41-year-old Iyana Cas­tana­da had to be de­layed once again—this time be­cause the pathol­o­gist sched­uled to per­form it missed his flight to To­ba­go.

A Cou­va man was killed af­ter his ve­hi­cle slammed in­to a garbage truck late Sun­day night. The de­ceased was iden­ti­fied as 44-year-old Ter­rance Ali of Per­se­ver­ance Vil­lage, Cou­va. Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, the dri­ver of the garbage truck was col­lect­ing trash along the South­ern Main Road in Mc Bean, Cou­va, near Din­di­al’s Stock­pile, around 11.15 pm when the in­ci­dent oc­curred. The truck dri­ver told po­lice that he had stopped to pick up garbage when he sud­den­ly felt an im­pact at the rear of the ve­hi­cle. Up­on check­ing, he dis­cov­ered that a gold Nis­san Almera had crashed in­to the back of the truck. The car’s dri­ver, lat­er iden­ti­fied as Ali, ap­peared un­re­spon­sive. Emer­gency ser­vices were con­tact­ed, and Ali was tak­en to the Cou­va Health Fa­cil­i­ty, where he was pro­nounced dead on ar­rival. Con­sta­ble Kussie is con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

Burnt re­mains be­lieved to be those of miss­ing Fyz­abad man Uag­nan “Pha­goo” Ramjit have been dis­cov­ered in a yard not far from his home.

A 60-year-old taxi dri­ver was robbed of cash and a cell­phone by a pas­sen­ger in San Fer­nan­do on Mon­day. Po­lice said the vic­tim was at the Bor­de Narve taxi stand on Mu­cu­rapo Street, sit­ting in his gold Nis­san Almera around 6.05 pm, when a man ap­proached and hired him for a trip to Bor­de Narve. Up­on reach­ing the Bor­de Narve recre­ation ground, the pas­sen­ger asked the dri­ver to re­turn to San Fer­nan­do, say­ing he would pay him up­on ar­rival. The dri­ver agreed. How­ev­er, when they ar­rived at Prince of Wales Street, near Faith Cen­tre, the man an­nounced a rob­bery and stole $679, and a grey Sam­sung cell­phone val­ued at $900. The sus­pect then ex­it­ed the ve­hi­cle and fled on foot in an east­er­ly di­rec­tion. Sgt Seecha­ran and of­fi­cers of the San Fer­nan­do En­quiries and Op­er­a­tions Unit re­spond­ed to the scene. PC Bal­lier­a­jh is lead­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar claims to have slashed ex­pen­di­ture in ad­ver­tis­ing, rentals, pur­chase of lux­u­ry ve­hi­cles and "un­nec­es­sary" se­cu­ri­ty de­tails.

Min­is­ter of Health, Dr. Lack­ram Bo­doe, ac­com­pa­nied by Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Health, Dr. Rishad Seecher­an, con­duct­ed a site vis­it to the Cou­va Hos­pi­tal and Mul­ti-Train­ing Fa­cil­i­ty.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump on Tues­day held out Sau­di Ara­bia as a mod­el for a reimag­ined Mid­dle East, us­ing the first ma­jor for­eign trip of his term to em­pha­sise the promise of eco­nom­ic pros­per­i­ty over in­sta­bil­i­ty in a re­gion reel­ing from mul­ti­ple wars.

David Lee, Min­is­ter of Hous­ing, and Phillip Alexan­der, Min­is­ter in the Min­istry, em­barked on a tour of sev­er­al hous­ing de­vel­op­ment projects lo­cat­ed in south, cen­tral, east and north Trinidad un­der the purview of the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC).

The Ryu Dan Em­pow­er­ment Foun­da­tion has up­grad­ed its Sports Plus so­cial pro­gramme as part of its on­go­ing mis­sion to up­lift youth in En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas. Launched on the May 8, the project was made pos­si­ble through the Ex­tra­or­di­nary Projects Im­pact­ing Com­mu­ni­ties (EPIC) grant pro­gramme, fund­ed by the Dig­i­cel Foun­da­tion in part­ner­ship with Shell Trinidad and To­ba­go (Shell).

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said Tues­day that he will ease sanc­tions on Syr­ia and move to nor­malise re­la­tions with its new gov­ern­ment to give the coun­try “a chance at peace.”

Burnt re­mains be­lieved to be those of miss­ing Fyz­abad man Uag­nan Pha­goo have been found in a yard not far from where he lived.