Res­cuers pulled a 43-year-old se­cu­ri­ty guard alive from a col­lapsed base­ment ear­ly Thurs­day, end­ing a gru­el­ing days-long op­er­a­tion that be­came a sym­bol of hope af­ter the dev­as­ta­tion of twin earth­quakes that struck Venezuela eight days ear­li­er.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has called for re­flec­tion on church cul­ture fol­low­ing the mur­der of his sis­ter in faith, Neisha Roberts.

The day two man­agers at the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) were dis­missed, the util­i­ty com­pa­ny an­nounced the ap­point­ment of two new man­agers.

At­tor­neys rep­re­sent­ing Do­minic and Genevieve Hadeed are pur­su­ing every pos­si­ble av­enue avail­able that can lead to their re­lease be­fore Sep­tem­ber.

Al­though Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has agreed to is­sue a Min­is­ter’s Per­mit al­low­ing Christo­pher “Chris Must List” Hugh­es back in­to T&T to at­tend his up­com­ing tri­al next month, he has not in­di­cat­ed if he will ho­n­our a re­quest to re­cuse him­self from the mat­ter.

Christo­pher Sama­roo, the fa­ther of po­lice shoot­ing vic­tim Joshua Sama­roo, was re­unit­ed with his fam­i­ly on Tues­day night, af­ter he was grant­ed $100,000 sta­tion bail.

Sea­men and Wa­ter­front Work­ers’ Trade Union (SWW­TU) pres­i­dent gen­er­al Michael An­nisette says the labour move­ment has hand­ed over all rel­e­vant in­for­ma­tion sur­round­ing the ar­rest and charg­ing of ac­tivist Alyssa Phillip on Labour Day to a se­nior coun­sel, who will de­ter­mine the next course of ac­tion.

A South Oropouche man be­lieved to be flee­ing af­ter al­leged­ly mur­der­ing a woman in To­ba­go was ar­rest­ed as he dis­em­barked the fer­ry in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day.

Akeel Tim­o­thy still re­mem­bers beg­ging his moth­er not to send him to the Mil­i­tary-Led Aca­d­e­m­ic Train­ing (Mi­LAT) pro­gramme.

Child and gen­der spe­cial­ist Mar­cus Kissoon is ques­tion­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to sus­pend the Mil­i­tary-Led Aca­d­e­m­ic Train­ing (Mi­LAT) pro­gramme, warn­ing that the move sends the wrong mes­sage about the coun­try’s com­mit­ment to vul­ner­a­ble young men.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to re­verse its de­ci­sion to sus­pend the Mil­i­tary-Led Aca­d­e­m­ic Train­ing (Mi­LAT) Pro­gramme, de­scrib­ing the move as an­oth­er ma­jor set­back for youth de­vel­op­ment and crime pre­ven­tion and ques­tion­ing whether the coun­try can af­ford to lose one of its longest-run­ning so­cial in­ter­ven­tion ini­tia­tives.

As res­cue and re­cov­ery ef­forts con­tin­ue in earth­quake-rav­aged Venezuela, Se­wa In­ter­na­tion­al TT pres­i­dent Re­van Teelucks­ingh is urg­ing the pub­lic to con­tin­ue sup­port­ing the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s re­lief dri­ve as it pre­pares to ship $100,000 worth of much-need­ed tools this week­end to as­sist emer­gency re­spon­ders.