Five per­sons were ar­rest­ed, and a firearm and quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion seized dur­ing on­go­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed overnight in the South­ern and To­ba­go Di­vi­sions, the Po­lice Ser­vice has con­firmed.

Pow­er Con­struc­tion Cor­po­ra­tion of Chi­na, a lead­ing in­fra­struc­ture firm, has reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to ad­vanc­ing clean en­er­gy projects in Trinidad and To­ba­go and the wider re­gion.

The Unit­ed Na­tions says more than 20,000 peo­ple have fled their homes across Haiti’s cap­i­tal, Port-au-Prince, in just four days amid es­ca­lat­ing gang vi­o­lence, with more than 17,000 seek­ing shel­ter in 15 dis­place­ment sites as crit­i­cal sup­ply chains col­lapse.

Gun­men shot and killed a Syr­i­an gy­ro ven­dor while he con­duct­ed sales in Fyz­abad ear­ly Mon­day.

Pres­i­dent Vladimir Putin on Tues­day signed a re­vised nu­clear doc­trine de­clar­ing that a con­ven­tion­al at­tack on Rus­sia by any na­tion that is sup­port­ed by a nu­clear pow­er will be con­sid­ered a joint at­tack on his coun­try.

The on­go­ing im­passe at the Port of Port-of-Spain re­mains un­re­solved, caus­ing ma­jor dis­rup­tions to op­er­a­tions and ad­verse­ly af­fect­ing the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty. There seems to be no end in sight as nei­ther side has budged in the port pay dis­pute.

The Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) has hailed a re­cent High Court judg­ment as a land­mark win for ac­count­abil­i­ty and work­ers’ rights. 

MP for Laven­tille East/Mor­vant and Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Adri­an Leonce be­lieves the Gov­ern­ment will not adopt the Salaries Re­view Com­mis­sion’s (SRC) re­port propos­ing wage hikes for 950 state of­fi­cials across 325 cat­e­gories of of­fices at this time.

Five new mem­bers of the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC) have been ap­proved by the Par­lia­ment.

The Prime Min­is­ter says Gov­ern­ment will not bow to “spe­cial in­ter­est pres­sure” to de­val­ue the TT dol­lar. Speak­ing on the for­eign ex­change is­sue for the first time yes­ter­day, the Prime Min­is­ter said the pres­sure to de­val­ue was com­ing from peo­ple who large­ly have for­eign ex­change. He said de­val­u­a­tion will in­crease costs and make those with for­eign ex­change wealth­i­er.

A fi­nal re­port on the probe in­to the Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency (SSA) will be avail­able some­time in the not-too-dis­tant fu­ture, says Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley said the So­lo Creed tug­boat and those as­so­ci­at­ed with it were op­er­at­ing il­le­gal­ly and took many steps to hide their iden­ti­ties. Some of the steps in­clude al­leged­ly fal­si­fy­ing rel­e­vant doc­u­ments.