An­gry res­i­dents of Pe­nal protest­ed on Fri­day, ac­cus­ing a pen­sion­er of self­ish­ly di­vert­ing a ma­jor riv­er and putting their homes at risk of flood­ing.

More than 50 uni­ver­si­ties are be­ing in­ves­ti­gat­ed for al­leged racial dis­crim­i­na­tion as part of Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s cam­paign to end di­ver­si­ty, eq­ui­ty and in­clu­sion pro­grams that his of­fi­cials say ex­clude white and Asian Amer­i­can stu­dents.

Bar­ba­dos will host the 69th an­nu­al health re­search con­fer­ence of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA) in May.

Po­lice are try­ing to iden­ti­fy the body of a man whose body was dumped at a ceme­tery in Mor­vant on Fri­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said De­on Br­us­co was at his Ben­ny Road, home around 11 pm when masked gun­men ran in­to his house, over­pow­er­ing him and a fe­male rel­a­tive.

Ra­madan ob­ser­vances at a Pe­nal mosque have been marred by a bur­glary in which cash and oth­er items were stolen.

Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als with booked trips to the Unit­ed King­dom but no Elec­tron­ic Trav­el Au­tho­ri­sa­tion (ETA) re­main frus­trat­ed as to their next move, and the trav­el plans for oth­ers are now in lim­bo over a new visa pol­i­cy and fees.

Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds says lo­cal crim­i­nals flee­ing to the Unit­ed King­dom to seek asy­lum to “avoid ac­count­abil­i­ty to the law,” was one of the rea­sons T&T na­tion­als now re­quire a visa to trav­el there.

Out­go­ing Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley says fol­low­ing reg­u­lar as­sess­ments re­gard­ing the ef­fec­tive­ness of the cur­rent State of Emer­gency (SoE), he is not an­tic­i­pat­ing a fur­ther ex­ten­sion.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has de­clared that he has “no re­grets” about his tenure as he looks to­ward re­tire­ment on Sun­day.

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr In­di­ra Ram­per­sad pre­dicts that the high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed elec­tion date will be re­vealed on Sun­day, co­in­cid­ing with Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s of­fi­cial res­ig­na­tion. She made the state­ment when she was in­ter­viewed on CNC3’s The Morn­ing Brew.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has as­sured cit­i­zens that he is leav­ing of­fice in good health, putting to rest lin­ger­ing con­cerns about his well-be­ing that have sur­faced in re­cent years and spec­u­la­tions that ill health was the main rea­son for his de­par­ture.