Two men were ar­rest­ed on Sun­day night af­ter po­lice of­fi­cers in­ter­cept­ed a ve­hi­cle in Quar­ry Vil­lage, Siparia, and al­leged­ly dis­cov­ered a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing a tar­get­ed op­er­a­tion.

A 6.1 mag­ni­tude earth­quake struck near west­ern Cu­ba on Mon­day, shak­ing build­ings in Ha­vana and be­yond.

The State De­part­ment will of­fer a “pre­mi­um” ex­pe­dit­ed ser­vice for for­eign­ers seek­ing busi­ness or tourist visas to come to the Unit­ed States that will set ap­pli­cants back $750 — on top of the ini­tial fee of $185.

The Gov­ern­ment is propos­ing changes to pen­sion rules that would al­low po­lice, prison and fire of­fi­cers who spent ex­tend­ed pe­ri­ods act­ing in high­er po­si­tions to re­tire with ben­e­fits based on their act­ing salaries rather than their sub­stan­tive ap­point­ments.

A Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice of­fi­cer has been grant­ed bail af­ter be­ing charged with forgery and mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice.

Robert Greenidge, the in­ter­na­tion­al­ly ac­claimed steel­pan vir­tu­oso, arranger and com­pos­er whose artistry helped el­e­vate Trinidad and To­ba­go’s na­tion­al in­stru­ment to glob­al recog­ni­tion, died to­day af­ter a pro­longed ill­ness. He was 76.

A se­nior Unit­ed States of­fi­cial Mon­day said op­er­a­tional suc­cess­es re­quire sus­tained in­tel­li­gence shar­ing, tech­ni­cal ex­per­tise, and the kind of trust that on­ly comes from work­ing side-by-side over time.

Dozens of may­ors and oth­er city lead­ers gath­ered in the ball­room of a Wash­ing­ton ho­tel on a snowy Jan­u­ary morn­ing this year gripped by anger and anx­i­ety about the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment’s in­creas­ing­ly ag­gres­sive im­mi­gra­tion en­force­ment op­er­a­tion that in­clud­ed the killings of two U.S. cit­i­zens in Min­neapo­lis.

The steel­pan fra­ter­ni­ty has been plunged in­to mourn­ing with news to­day of the pass­ing of icon­ic soloist, arranger and com­pos­er, Robert ‘Rob­bie’ Greenidge.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) has em­barked on a dual-coun­try Trade Mis­sion to Guyana and Suri­name, mark­ing one of its most am­bi­tious re­gion­al ini­tia­tives to date. Run­ning from June 8–14, the mis­sion un­der­scores TTMA’s com­mit­ment to strength­en­ing re­gion­al trade, in­vest­ment, and col­lab­o­ra­tion op­por­tu­ni­ties for lo­cal man­u­fac­tur­ers and ser­vice providers.

For­mer Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er and Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Gary Grif­fith has de­scribed the ex­ten­sion of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s State of Emer­gency (SOE) as a clear ad­mis­sion of fail­ure by the coun­try’s law en­force­ment lead­er­ship.

The Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC) has is­sued a stern warn­ing against the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment's pro­posed plan to seek par­lia­men­tary ap­proval for a fur­ther three-month ex­ten­sion of the cur­rent State of Emer­gency (SOE).