The Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion is sus­pend­ing a re­quire­ment that for­eign vis­i­tors from coun­tries that have qual­i­fied for the World Cup and have bought tick­ets for the soc­cer tour­na­ment pay as much as $15,000 in bonds to en­ter the Unit­ed States, the State De­part­ment said Wednes­day.

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers is in Wash­ing­ton, D.C. for a se­ries of high-lev­el bi­lat­er­al meet­ings with se­nior of­fi­cials of the Unit­ed States Gov­ern­ment.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has con­grat­u­lat­ed Ba­hami­an Prime Min­is­ter Philip Davis and the Pro­gres­sive Lib­er­al Par­ty on their elec­toral vic­to­ry and re­newed man­date from the peo­ple of The Ba­hamas.

Prime Min­is­ter Philip Davis guid­ed his rul­ing Pro­gres­sive Lib­er­al Par­ty (PLP) to a record sec­ond con­sec­u­tive term in of­fice af­ter it swept Tues­day’s gen­er­al elec­tion, which he had called ahead of the con­sti­tu­tion­al dead­line.

House Speak­er Jagdeo Singh dis­missed con­cerns about gov­ern­ment ac­count­abil­i­ty in Par­lia­ment to­day as a “tired old sto­ry” while de­fend­ing Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der's re­fusal to an­swer ques­tions tied to the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency and al­leged threats against se­nior law en­force­ment of­fi­cers.

A 74-year-old man from Siparia, who killed his three-year-old son and dis­posed of his body al­most four decades ago, will have to serve over three more years in prison be­fore he can be re­leased.

Gov­ern­ment plans to re­cruit 800 new prison of­fi­cers with­in months, as part of a broad­er push to strength­en the coun­try’s prison sys­tem un­der the pro­posed Pa­role Bill 2026.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty has con­demned what it de­scribed as an act of crim­i­nal sab­o­tage fol­low­ing the theft of a pow­er ca­ble at the St. Joseph Boost­er Sta­tion in Ma­yaro.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is seek­ing the pub­lic’s as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing 19-year-old Pe­ter Isaac, who was re­port­ed miss­ing ear­li­er this week.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Roodal Mooni­lal says there is no pol­i­cy re­quir­ing the Min­istry of En­er­gy to is­sue pub­lic state­ments on small oil spills, as he de­fend­ed the Gov­ern­ment’s han­dling of an off­shore spill dis­closed on­ly af­ter Venezuela is­sued a com­mu­niqué over the week­end.

The fran­tic search for a miss­ing tod­dler in To­ba­go turned in­to frus­tra­tion and anger yes­ter­day as ten­sions flared.

Holy Name Con­vent, Port-of-Spain, is break­ing its si­lence about the al­le­ga­tions against its prin­ci­pal Sis­ter Re­nee Hall, an­nounc­ing a full, in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion.