Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has con­demned the at­tack at the White House Cor­re­spon­dents’ Din­ner, ex­press­ing re­lief that Don­ald Trump, the First La­dy, and oth­ers in at­ten­dance were not harmed.

Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Port of Spain North/St Ann’s West, Stu­art Young, has met with Act­ing Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez.

Is­sues with al­leged play­er in­dis­ci­pline must be dealt with in­side the lock­er room and not in pub­lic.

The Meta­mor­pho­sis Dance Com­pa­ny pushed the bound­aries of tra­di­tion­al per­for­mance with its lat­est pro­duc­tion, Il­lu­mi­na­tion, staged at Queen’s Hall , St Ann’s, ear­li­er this month.

The US-Is­rael War on Iran is il­le­gal and reck­less. It is il­le­gal be­cause it vi­o­lates the UN Char­ter’s pro­hi­bi­tion on the use of force ex­cept in self-de­fence (UN Char­ter Ar­ti­cle 2(4)). It lacks Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil au­tho­ri­sa­tion. It is reck­less, as it is a “war of choice”, based on un­ver­i­fied threats, does not have Con­gres­sion­al ap­proval, and risks a cat­a­stroph­ic re­gion­al con­flict with glob­al reper­cus­sions. The same is true of US ac­tions against Venezuela and Cu­ba. The dif­fer­ence is that US and Is­raeli ac­tions in the Gulf and Iran’s re­sponse are desta­bil­is­ing the world econ­o­my.