The Unit­ed States Am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go, H.E. Joseph Mon­del­lo, has is­sued a state­ment con­cern­ing the cur­rent cri­sis in Venezuela, and the out­pour­ing of refugees from that coun­try.

Peo­ple held at the 'Zess­er' par­ty in Kel­ly Vil­lage, Ca­roni, last Sun­day morn­ing, will be ar­rest­ed if they do not re­spond to sum­mons­es to ap­pear in Court.

A rov­ing op­er­a­tion by of­fi­cers of the North-East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force (NDTF) yes­ter­day re­sult­ed in the re­cov­ery of a stolen ve­hi­cle and the ar­rest of a man for pos­ses­sion of mar­i­jua­na.

Scar­bor­ough Po­lice have ar­rest­ed a 48-year-old labour­er of Mt Grace Flats, Mt Grace, To­ba­go, for caus­ing ma­li­cious dam­age.

Diego Maradona, the Ar­gen­tine soc­cer great who was among the best play­ers ever and who led his coun­try to the 1986 World Cup ti­tle be­fore lat­er strug­gling with co­caine use and obe­si­ty, has died. He was 60.

ECLAC — The Eco­nom­ic Com­mis­sion for Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean (ECLAC) ex­pressed its con­cern to­day over the per­sis­tence of gen­der-based vi­o­lence against women and girls in the re­gion and high rates of femi­cide, or fem­i­ni­cide.

Five Venezue­lans have been held this week, in two sep­a­rate in­ci­dents, for im­mi­gra­tion of­fences, ac­cord­ing to re­ports from the Po­lice Ser­vice.

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing a group of Venezue­lan mi­grant women and chil­dren who re­turned to this coun­try on Tues­day af­ter be­ing con­tro­ver­sial­ly de­port­ed on Sun­day have filed law­suits to se­cure their re­lease pend­ing sub­stan­tive lig­a­tion over their treat­ment by lo­cal au­thor­i­ties.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to a shoot­ing in­ci­dent on Tues­day night on the com­pound of Tru Valu in Diego Mar­tin.

Miss­ing Per­sons Alerts have been is­sued for a 14-year-old  boy from Ch­agua­nas, and a 58-year-old man from Mar­aval, and the Trinidad  and  To­ba­go  Po­lice  Ser­vice (TTPS) is  seek­ing  the  ur­gent as­sis­tance  of  the  pub­lic  in  lo­cat­ing  them both.

UN Women is call­ing on gov­ern­ments around the world to ad­dress the is­sue of vi­o­lence against women as part of their re­sponse to the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

Prime Min­is­ter Kei­th Row­ley has point­ed out that TT's bor­ders have been closed even to TT cit­i­zens dur­ing the COVID pan­dem­ic, and TT would re­sist all ef­forts by oth­ers who are “hell bent on forc­ing open this coun­try's bor­ders through il­le­gal im­mi­gra­tion”.