Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump on Thurs­day fired his em­bat­tled Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Sec­re­tary Kristi Noem, af­ter mount­ing crit­i­cism over her lead­er­ship of the de­part­ment, in­clud­ing the han­dling of the ad­min­is­tra­tion’s im­mi­gra­tion crack­down and dis­as­ter re­sponse.

The Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ap­pro­pri­a­tions Com­mit­tee is con­duct­ing an ex­am­i­na­tion of the state’s ac­qui­si­tion of phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals as it re­lates to the cur­rent process­es ap­plic­a­ble to its im­por­ta­tion and ap­proval. This is very good since pub­lic pro­cure­ment should al­ways be brought un­der scruti­ny. Al­ready the com­mit­tee has re­vealed in its find­ings that there is a dis­con­nect be­tween the list of ap­proved drugs that Cus­toms of­fi­cials work with and the lat­est list of ap­proved drugs is­sued by the Min­istry of Health. There is cer­tain­ly a struc­tur­al prob­lem here that could be solved.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s se­nior women’s team showed im­mense heart on Wednes­day night, fight­ing back from two goals down to earn a gut­sy 2-2 draw against Hon­duras at the Es­ta­dio Chela­to Uclés in ​Tegu­ci­gal­pa .

There are a few pro­vi­sions in the new State of Emer­gency (SoE) pow­ers which are said to se­ri­ous­ly en­croach on per­son­al free­doms of in­di­vid­u­als be­yond what pre­vi­ous SoEs gave to the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice and his of­fi­cers.