What be­gan as a ship­ment of food, med­i­cine and re­lief sup­plies to earth­quake-rav­aged Venezuela may have opened the door to re­pair­ing one of the re­gion’s most strained diplo­mat­ic re­la­tion­ships.

Tragedy has struck the farm­ing com­mu­ni­ty of Clax­ton Bay, af­ter a farmer was found dead be­neath his trac­tor on Wednes­day.

Tears flowed freely at the Mt St George Sev­enth-day Ad­ven­tist (SDA) Church yes­ter­day as the close-knit com­mu­ni­ty bade farewell to Dea­coness Neisha Roberts and her moth­er, Ir­ma Roberts.

Hu­man jaw­bones found by a dog led po­lice to the de­com­pos­ing body of a man in Mon Re­pos, San Fer­nan­do, yes­ter­day.

The Court of Ap­peal or­dered that Do­minic and Genevieve Hadeed be im­me­di­ate­ly re­leased from de­ten­tion but con­fined to their home at, Bayshore, West­moor­ings, sub­ject to the fol­low­ing con­di­tions:

Do­minic and Genevieve Hadeed have been or­dered to be im­me­di­ate­ly re­leased by the court af­ter spend­ing 22 days in cus­tody since their ar­rest on June 24.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has re­vealed that she spoke with Venezuela’s Act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez two days af­ter dev­as­tat­ing earth­quakes struck the neigh­bour­ing coun­try, as Trinidad and To­ba­go moved to launch a ma­jor hu­man­i­tar­i­an re­lief ef­fort.

The Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion has an­nounced an ex­ten­sion of cashier op­er­at­ing hours at all Li­cens­ing Di­vi­sion of­fices na­tion­wide, giv­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic ad­di­tion­al time to com­plete pay­ments for ser­vices.

A Ch­agua­nas busi­ness­man has lost more than $1.3 mil­lion af­ter his com­mer­cial bank ac­count was al­leged­ly hacked in what busi­ness lead­ers say re­flects a grow­ing threat of so­phis­ti­cat­ed on­line bank­ing fraud in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

ANSA McAL Lim­it­ed has been as­signed ini­tial is­suer cred­it rat­ings of Cari­AA on the re­gion­al scale and ttAA on the Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­al scale by Caribbean In­for­ma­tion and Cred­it Rat­ing Ser­vices Lim­it­ed (Cari­CRIS).

Le­gal doc­u­ments is­sued by the court—re­lat­ing to Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) hav­ing to ex­plain where they got the mon­ey from to build Bal­isi­er House—were of­fi­cial­ly served on the par­ty’s gen­er­al sec­re­tary Fos­ter Cum­mings around 12:15 am to­day, as he re­turned to the coun­try and stepped out of the air­port.

Plagued by haunt­ing “mem­o­ries of blood, hor­ror and death,” the fam­i­ly of An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie have ini­ti­at­ed le­gal ac­tion over the tragedy that claimed her life at Pi­geon Point Beach, To­ba­go, on April 8. The sev­en-year-old was struck and killed by a jet ski af­ter it ploughed past the rope de­mar­cat­ing a bathing-on­ly zone, slam­ming in­to An­gel­i­ca and three oth­er rel­a­tives.