The Unit­ed States has ex­tend­ed the flight ban to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, un­til Sep­tem­ber 8 due to wors­en­ing se­cu­ri­ty con­di­tions and es­ca­lat­ing gang vi­o­lence. 

Pho­to: A Ukrain­ian sol­dier walks past at a city hall in Sudzha, Kursk re­gion, Rus­sia, Fri­day, Aug. 16, 2024. This im­age was ap­proved by the Ukrain­ian De­fense Min­istry be­fore pub­li­ca­tion. (AP Pho­to, File)

For­mer To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Chief Sec­re­tary and Sen­a­tor An­cil Den­nis has blast­ed the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion af­ter the High Court up­held an $18 mil­lion judg­ment against the THA in favour of Nazvic Con­trac­tors Lim­it­ed.

For­mer THA Chief Sec­re­tary and Sen­a­tor An­cil Den­nis's at­tor­ney has re­ject­ed defama­tion claims made against him by THA Sec­re­tary Zor­isha Hack­ett, stat­ing that the le­gal no­tice sent to him does not meet pro­ce­dur­al stan­dards.

A Long­denville man es­caped se­ri­ous in­jury when an ar­gu­ment over miss­ing gro­ceries es­ca­lat­ed to a strug­gle over a gun on Wednes­day night. 

A Ca­roni busi­ness­man who is al­so a li­censed gun own­er was able to scare off ban­dits who tried to break in­to his home ear­ly on Wednes­day morn­ing.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the death of a woman who was be­lieved to have been mur­dered at her Mal­abar home. 

A sig­nif­i­cant in­crease in T&T na­tion­als seek­ing asy­lum in the Unit­ed King­dom (UK) has triggered its gov­ern­ment to im­ple­ment new visa mea­sures.

The move by the UK gov­ern­ment, which re­quires all T&T na­tion­als to ac­quire a visa be­fore en­ter­ing that coun­try, has been de­scribed as “bizarre” by econ­o­mist Dr Vaalmik­ki Ar­joon.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has crit­i­cised Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s Gov­ern­ment for fail­ing to take the nec­es­sary ac­tions to pre­vent the re­cent roll­out of new visa re­quire­ments for the trav­el to the Unit­ed King­dom.

Act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Ju­nior Ben­jamin said yes­ter­day that the po­lice had tak­en a “dim view” of the unau­tho­rised sur­veil­lance cam­eras dis­cov­ered in Sea Lots on Tues­day.

An el­der­ly man and his two adult chil­dren were robbed dur­ing a home in­va­sion in Pe­nal on Mon­day.