CARA­CAS, Venezuela—Act­ing Venezuela Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez has thanked Trinidad and To­ba­go and oth­er Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) coun­tries for their hu­man­i­tar­i­an as­sis­tance fol­low­ing the dev­as­tat­ing June 24 dou­ble earth­quake that killed thou­sands and left thou­sands more home­less.

The Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice (MSJ) has ac­cused both the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) and the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) of hypocrisy amid the on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the fund­ing of Bal­isi­er House, con­demn­ing both par­ties for fail­ing to en­act cam­paign fi­nance re­form de­spite years of promis­es.

Less than two weeks af­ter hun­dreds of Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion em­ploy­ees en­dured de­lays in re­ceiv­ing their June salaries, the Cor­po­ra­tion is once again await­ing Gov­ern­ment ap­proval for ad­di­tion­al fund­ing to meet its pay­roll oblig­a­tions.

The ven­dors of the Break­fast Shed have se­cured an­oth­er le­gal vic­to­ry af­ter the Court of Ap­peal re­fused an ap­pli­ca­tion by the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UDe­COTT) to have its ap­peal heard as an ur­gent mat­ter.

An open­ing date for the long-await­ed Cen­tral Block at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal (POS­GH) has not yet been set.

Res­i­dents of sev­er­al com­mu­ni­ties in San­ta Cruz and Mar­aval say flood­ing re­mains a per­sis­tent con­cern, as they fear that nar­row drains and poor waste dis­pos­al could wors­en the im­pact of heavy rain­fall lat­er this year.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) is prepar­ing to roll out a suite of ini­tia­tives to wel­come dis­abled em­ploy­ees in­to all di­vi­sions.

Some lo­cal doc­tors and busi­ness sup­pli­ers are mon­i­tor­ing the US out­break of the in­testi­nal in­fec­tion cy­clospo­ri­a­sis, which, up to Tues­day, had caused 1,645 con­firmed cas­es across 34 US states, with an­oth­er 5,100 cas­es un­der in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

A 50-foot sail­ing ves­sel has been towed safe­ly back Ch­aguara­mas af­ter a co­or­di­nat­ed mar­itime re­sponse in­volv­ing the Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard, North Post Ra­dio Sta­tion and the Ma­rine Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

A Diego Mar­tin man was killed on Tues­day night while his friend was in­jured in a shoot­ing out­side his home.

Af­ter spend­ing more than a decade on re­mand, a man has been ac­quit­ted of mur­der­ing a se­cu­ri­ty guard dur­ing a jew­ellery store rob­bery in down­town Port-of-Spain.

A pair of sib­lings have won their case against a com­pa­ny over a new 15-year lease for a par­cel of land in St James that has been un­der their fam­i­ly’s con­trol for more than 60 years.