A po­lice of­fi­cer, who was shot in his hand while en­ter­ing a house to ar­rest a sus­pect in 2018, has lost his law­suit seek­ing com­pen­sa­tion for the in­jury.

Res­i­dents of Mara­bel­la are ea­ger­ly an­tic­i­pat­ing the re­open­ing of the Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery as the Gov­ern­ment ad­vances talks with a slate of in­ter­na­tion­al and re­gion­al in­vestors, rais­ing cau­tious op­ti­mism that South Trinidad could be on the cusp of long-await­ed eco­nom­ic re­vival.

If you think the war for oil is bad, wait till you see the war for wa­ter. The world is go­ing wa­ter-bank­rupt, ac­cord­ing to a UN re­port pub­lished in Jan­u­ary. Glob­al­ly, hu­mans are us­ing wa­ter at a faster rate than na­ture can re­plen­ish it through rain or snow.

Me­dia prac­ti­tion­ers from across the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty gath­ered for a work­shop ti­tled “Re­port­ing Cli­mate Im­pacts in a Cli­mate Jus­tice Con­text” last Wednes­day. The event was host­ed by the Me­dia In­sti­tute of the Caribbean and Cli­mate An­a­lyt­ics Caribbean.

Imam Rasheed Karim has called for greater eq­ui­ty in the dis­tri­b­u­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s na­tion­al re­sources, say­ing Mus­lims should re­ceive their “fair share of the na­tion­al pie.”

For­mer Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Nizam Baksh called for peace world­wide as Mus­lims cel­e­brat­ed Eid fol­low­ing Ra­madan. Speak­ing at the Bar­rack­pore Is­lam­ic Cen­tre, he de­scribed Eid as a time to strength­en uni­ty and build “ca­ma­raderie and re­la­tion­ships” that ex­tend be­yond the Mus­lim com­mu­ni­ty.

Robert S. Mueller III, the FBI di­rec­tor who trans­formed the na­tion’s pre­mier law en­force­ment agency in­to a ter­ror­ism-fight­ing force af­ter the Sept. 11, 2001, at­tacks and who lat­er be­came spe­cial coun­sel in charge of in­ves­ti­gat­ing ties be­tween Rus­sia and Don­ald Trump’s pres­i­den­tial cam­paign, has died. He was 81.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar said Gov­ern­ment is mov­ing to strength­en bor­der se­cu­ri­ty through new on­line en­try sys­tems and leg­is­la­tion to sup­port the Ad­vanced Pas­sen­ger In­for­ma­tion Sys­tem (APIS).

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar said the Unit­ed States-op­er­at­ed radar once based in To­ba­go “it did serve us well,” as she ad­dressed con­cerns over its re­moval.

The Na­tion­al Civ­il Avi­a­tion Of­fice (OFNAC) re­ports that on Fri­day an Em­braer 145 air­craft op­er­at­ed by the com­pa­ny IBC, veered off the run­way as it land­ed at An­toine-Si­mon Air­port in the town Les Cayes, to the west of here.

Spir­i­tu­al Bap­tists were re­fused per­mis­sion to stage a planned march in San Fer­nan­do un­der the State of Emer­gency, but will pro­ceed with a week of prayer from Sun­day.

Sev­en­teen peo­ple have been named in a mass de­ten­tion or­der is­sued overnight un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, the largest such use of the pow­er since the start of the cur­rent State of Emer­gency (SoE).