France has be­stowed the “Knight of the Le­gion of Ho­n­our” the low­est rank in the coun­try’s high­est civil­ian or­der, on Suri­namese med­ical prac­ti­tion­er, Dr. Ruben del Pra­do.

Both the House and Sen­ate act­ed de­ci­sive­ly Tues­day to pass a bill to force the Jus­tice De­part­ment to pub­licly re­lease its files on the con­vict­ed sex of­fend­er Jef­frey Ep­stein, a re­mark­able dis­play of ap­proval for an ef­fort that had strug­gled for months to over­come op­po­si­tion from Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump and Re­pub­li­can lead­er­ship.

A US news crew film­ing down the is­lands (DDI) near Trinidad record­ed two Amer­i­can naval ves­sels mov­ing through the nar­row chan­nel be­tween Trinidad and Venezuela.

A St Au­gus­tine man who was chopped in the face by his girl­friend’s teenage son dur­ing an ar­gu­ment over him spend­ing the night at their house, was said to be in a sta­ble con­di­tion at hos­pi­tal yes­ter­day.

The de­com­pos­ing body of a man was found at the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture, Land, Fish­eries Sur­veys and Map­ping Di­vi­sion Build­ing at Wright­son Road in Port-of-Spain on Mon­day.

Five men who ac­cused the State of fail­ing to pro­tect them against sex­u­al and phys­i­cal abuse at a chil­dren’s home in Bel­mont decades ago have filed a law­suit su­ing the Ro­man Catholic Church and the State.

While the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion is push­ing for the re­in­state­ment of 26 em­ploy­ees whose con­tracts were not re­newed, the chair­man of the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion is de­fend­ing the move, say­ing the work­ers were “sur­plus to re­quire­ments.”

Wood­brook res­i­dents liv­ing near the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um and the Jean Pierre Com­plex are ques­tion­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s de­ci­sion to ban fetes at those sport­ing fa­cil­i­ties.

Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) pres­i­dent Fe­l­isha Thomas is again ac­cus­ing the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) of stalling the “10 per cent” wage ne­go­ti­a­tions, and she is now ask­ing if he has been giv­en a man­date to block pub­lic ser­vants from get­ting their back­pay by Christ­mas.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) made his­to­ry yes­ter­day when 82-year-old Jack Austin Warn­er—for­mer FI­FA vice-pres­i­dent, busi­ness­man, and politi­cian—was award­ed a Doc­tor of Phi­los­o­phy, be­com­ing the old­est PhD grad­u­ate in the in­sti­tu­tion’s his­to­ry.

Cu­mu­to res­i­dents say low-fly­ing US mil­i­tary air­craft tak­ing part in joint train­ing ex­er­cis­es with the T&T De­fence Force (TTDF) caused wide­spread un­ease on Mon­day af­ter­noon in­to the night, with the noise and vi­bra­tion from the en­gines shak­ing hous­es and star­tling fam­i­lies.

In the pres­ence of the Venezue­lan Am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go, Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo em­pha­sized the im­por­tance of co­op­er­a­tion over con­flict in main­tain­ing strong diplo­mat­ic re­la­tion­ships, amid height­ened ten­sions be­tween the two coun­tries.