Head of the Ja­maat Al-Mus­limeen, Imam Sadiq Al-Razi, has de­clined to com­ment on the Gov­ern­ment’s re­cent de­ci­sion to des­ig­nate three in­ter­na­tion­al groups as ter­ror­ist or­gan­i­sa­tions—Hezbol­lah, Hamas and Iran’s Is­lam­ic Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Guard Corps (IRGC)—but main­tained his and the in­sti­tu­tion’s con­tin­ued sup­port for Pales­tine.

The Unit­ed States Em­bassy in Trinidad and To­ba­go has main­tained a Lev­el III trav­el ad­vi­so­ry for Trinidad and To­ba­go, ad­vis­ing trav­ellers to re­con­sid­er trav­el due to crime and a height­ened risk of ter­ror­ism.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has de­clared that Trinidad and To­ba­go will not ex­it Cari­com, even as she launched an­oth­er scathing at­tack on the re­gion­al body over what she de­scribed as a fail­ure to cor­rob­o­rate a key What­sApp mes­sage cen­tral to an on­go­ing gov­er­nance dis­pute.

For­mer en­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young is call­ing for a crim­i­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) af­ter the dis­clo­sure of a $3.4 bil­lion list of hous­ing con­tracts he de­scribes as a “car­tel-type” abuse of pub­lic funds.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) has pledged to take “ap­pro­pri­ate ac­tion, if nec­es­sary” against Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates, while Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that the par­lia­men­tary com­mit­tee which un­cov­ered her al­leged mis­con­duct is set to meet to­day to de­cide on her fu­ture par­tic­i­pa­tion.

The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) has re­ject­ed claims cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia that staff lock­ers at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC) were forcibly bro­ken in­to, or that per­son­al items were dis­card­ed.

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) is tar­get­ing a crowd of more than 10,000 peo­ple for its April 25 con­gress, which will mark both the par­ty’s 37th an­niver­sary and its first year in gov­ern­ment.

Once a moss-cov­ered stretch known more for its burn than its beau­ty, the San Fer­nan­do stair­case has been re­born in bold strokes of red, white and black, draw­ing a steady stream of vis­i­tors ea­ger to pause, pose and take it all in.

For­mer Cen­tral Bank gov­er­nor Dr Alvin Hi­laire will have to wait just over six months for the tri­al of his mul­ti­mil­lion-dol­lar law­suit over his ter­mi­na­tion.

A Unit­ed States-trained nurse has lost her law­suit chal­leng­ing the re­fusal of the Nurs­ing Coun­cil of Trinidad and To­ba­go to reg­is­ter her lo­cal­ly.

The fu­ner­al ser­vice for sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Saydee Jo­gie will be held on Sat­ur­day in Bar­rack­pore, af­ter her body re­turns home for the fi­nal time fol­low­ing a trag­ic jet ski in­ci­dent in To­ba­go.

“I don’t know why they did that to my son,” sobbed Leela Mo­hammed, moth­er of 33-year-old pump­kin farmer Ka­mal Mo­hammed, who was gunned down while work­ing in a gar­den on Tues­day.