PNM To­ba­go po­lit­i­cal leader An­cil Den­nis says the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly has noth­ing to show for the mil­lions spent on for­eign trav­el in re­cent years ex­cept “self­ies and so­cial-me­dia pho­tos,” and he promised that a PNM ad­min­is­tra­tion would on­ly trav­el to se­cure re­al in­vest­ment for To­ba­go.

Mo­ments af­ter the Don­ald Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion added Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro and his gov­ern­ment to the US State De­part­ment’s list of the world’s most dan­ger­ous ter­ror­ist or­gan­i­sa­tions, news emerged that the Unit­ed States’ high­est-rank­ing mil­i­tary of­fi­cer will meet with the Prime Min­is­ter to­day.

Trinidad Pe­tro­le­um Hold­ings Ltd yes­ter­day ter­mi­nat­ed the ser­vices of di­rec­tor Romel Lal­loo, just three months af­ter his ap­point­ment.

The Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment is con­demn­ing a pro­pos­al for the Unit­ed States to re­voke the visas of peo­ple who cause “mis­in­for­ma­tion” on so­cial me­dia.

A po­lice of­fi­cer from a spe­cial­ist unit is among two peo­ple ar­rest­ed yes­ter­day, af­ter a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) was is­sued for their al­leged as­so­ci­a­tion with mem­bers of an Or­gan­ised Crime Group (OCG).

De­spite the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) claim­ing it re­ceived a “for­mal” ten per cent wage-in­crease “of­fer” from the Of­fice of the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) last Fri­day, Guardian Me­dia has been re­li­ably in­formed that no such of­fer was made.

A Diego Mar­tin man is in po­lice cus­tody, as­sist­ing with in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to death threats against Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Dr Amery Browne.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress coun­cil­lor Romona Vic­tor was known as a fight­er in the Siparia Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion, cham­pi­oning the rights of her elec­toral dis­trict with vigour and de­ter­mi­na­tion.

A for­mer House Speak­er is urg­ing a re­view of par­lia­men­tary rules, warn­ing that stronger sanc­tions are need­ed for breach­es of deco­rum as apolo­gies, es­pe­cial­ly in­sin­cere ones, “are no longer suf­fi­cient.”

Founder and Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of Con­flict Women Ltd, Asiya Mo­hammed, says the trag­ic killing of Siparia Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion coun­cil­lor Romona Vic­tor is a painful re­minder that even those de­vot­ed to pub­lic ser­vice of­ten strug­gle silent­ly with their own per­son­al chal­lenges—in­clud­ing do­mes­tic vi­o­lence.

The Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) has re­quest­ed that the branch com­mit­tee meet with work­ers to dis­cuss re­ports of a mould in­fes­ta­tion, which the Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) is deny­ing.

A tense, 48-hour res­cue op­er­a­tion in the deep for­est off Lala­ja, along the Ari­ma–Blan­chisseuse Road, con­clud­ed suc­cess­ful­ly yes­ter­day as na­tion­al emer­gency teams ex­tract­ed the in­jured hik­er, 40-year-old Fayyad Ho­sein of Rio Claro, who suf­fered a frac­tured left fe­mur dur­ing a re­mote hike.