Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she is pleased fol­low­ing yes­ter­day’s US mil­i­tary strike that sank a drug-car­ry­ing ves­sel leav­ing Venezue­lan wa­ters.

WASH­ING­TON — Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said yes­ter­day that the Unit­ed States car­ried out a strike in the south­ern Caribbean against a drug-car­ry­ing ves­sel that de­part­ed from Venezuela and was op­er­at­ed by the Tren de Aragua gang.

Con­dem­na­tion con­tin­ues to mount against Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) PRO Dr Kirk Meighoo, over his claims that Dr Er­ic Williams was not Trinidad and To­ba­go’s first prime min­is­ter.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath have hit back at the Op­po­si­tion, fol­low­ing crit­i­cism that Gov­ern­ment mem­bers at­tend­ed re­cent Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) match­es de­spite al­leged na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty threats, the same con­cerns that led to the can­cel­la­tion of the In­de­pen­dence Day mil­i­tary pa­rade.

Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer (CMO) Dr Roshan Paras­ram is ex­pect­ed to re­turn to du­ty on Sep­tem­ber 15, fol­low­ing the com­ple­tion of his va­ca­tion leave.

Jus­tice Rahim’s pro­mo­tion was con­firmed as he re­ceived his in­stru­ment of ap­point­ment from Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo at the Of­fice of the Pres­i­dent yes­ter­day morn­ing.

For­mer Cou­va South MP Rudranath In­dars­ingh, labour stal­wart Sel­wyn Sama­roo and ex-mag­is­trate Bramb­hanan Dubay are step­ping in­to the roles pre­vi­ous­ly held by judges Vin­cent Cabr­era, Lawrence Achong, and Wendy Ali in the In­dus­tri­al Court.

While the Postal Cor­po­ra­tion (TTPost) is still search­ing for a so­lu­tion to the Unit­ed States’ new trade pol­i­cy that has dis­rupt­ed small and mi­cro ex­porters, Uni­ver­sal Pack­age Sys­tems (UPS) says de­mand for its ser­vices re­mains steady.

The lawyer for a prison su­per­vi­sor, de­tained for al­leged­ly as­sist­ing a crim­i­nal gang and its leader, has raised con­cerns over the slow pace of the tri­bunal ap­point­ed to re­view de­ten­tion or­ders un­der the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE).

As the Guyana Elec­tions Com­mis­sion (GECOM) con­tin­ues to tal­ly votes from Mon­day’s gen­er­al elec­tion, sev­er­al me­dia out­lets are pro­ject­ing a vic­to­ry for Dr Ir­faan Ali’s Peo­ple’s Pro­gres­sive Par­ty/Civic (PPP/C), sug­gest­ing the par­ty is on course to re­tain con­trol of the coun­try.

Af­ter in­di­ca­tions of a win by the in­cum­bent Peo­ple’s Pro­gres­sive Par­ty/Civic (PPP/C) in Mon­day’s gen­er­al elec­tion in Guyana, En­er­gy Min­is­ter Roodal Mooni­lal says that “with­out a doubt,” Guyana will be a key play­er in T&T’s en­er­gy thrust.

Twen­ty-five Venezue­lan na­tion­als were ar­rest­ed dur­ing a joint na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty op­er­a­tion at a pop­u­lar broth­el in South Trinidad over the week­end.