In a his­toric mo­ment, Trinidad and To­ba­go has joined a new­ly es­tab­lished mil­i­tary al­liance led by Unit­ed States (US) Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump known as the Amer­i­c­as Counter-Car­tel Coali­tion.

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers is seek­ing to as­sure cit­i­zens that the gains made for Trinidad and To­ba­go at the Shield of the Amer­i­c­as meet­ing did not come at the ex­pense of this na­tion’s sov­er­eign­ty.

State-owned Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of T&T (TSTT) has been in­voiced al­most half a mil­lion dol­lars for a three-day re­treat in To­ba­go for act­ing chief ex­ec­u­tive Keino Cox and 10 of its ex­ec­u­tives.

For the past two weeks, Guardian Me­dia In­ves­ti­ga­tions Desk has ex­am­ined the Gov­ern­ment’s re­cruit­ment dri­ve—through Em­ployTT—and its tan­gi­ble im­pact on the state of the coun­try’s un­em­ploy­ment.