Hum­ming­bird AI has moved to counter grow­ing pub­lic scep­ti­cism over its pro­posed mul­ti-bil­lion-dol­lar ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence in­fra­struc­ture project in Trinidad and To­ba­go, re­leas­ing de­tails of its lead­er­ship, in­ter­na­tion­al part­ners and long-term vi­sion af­ter fac­ing crit­i­cism over its lim­it­ed pub­lic pro­file.

A rift ap­pears to be de­vel­op­ing with­in the Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion, af­ter pres­i­dent Ger­ard Gor­don dis­tanced him­self from a let­ter sent by his gen­er­al sec­re­tary Lester Lo­gie, which is be­lieved to have trig­gered Prison Com­mis­sion­er Car­los Cor­raspe be­ing sent on leave.

As he strug­gled to hold back tears yes­ter­day, Jubal Bas­ral­ly re­called how he watched his 65-year-old moth­er, Jameela Bas­ral­ly, bleed to death in his arms af­ter suf­fer­ing a cracked skull in a traf­fic ac­ci­dent in Mara­bel­la on Tues­day.

As she cel­e­brat­ed her 100th birth­day on Tues­day sur­round­ed by chil­dren, grand­chil­dren and great-grand­chil­dren, Seales told Guardian Me­dia that one mem­o­ry stood out above all the oth­ers.

For­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Garvin Nicholas says threats against pub­lic of­fi­cials are not un­usu­al, adding that this is one of the rea­sons gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials are pro­vid­ed with se­cu­ri­ty de­tails up­on tak­ing of­fice.

Res­i­dents of Moru­ga are deny­ing al­le­ga­tions that they ver­bal­ly abused and chased away a Min­istry of Works and In­fra­struc­ture (MOWI) crew sent to as­sess and re­pair a large crater along Pe­nal Rock Road, even as Works Min­is­ter Jear­lean John says min­istry em­ploy­ees were threat­ened on three sep­a­rate oc­ca­sions.

CARA­CAS, Venezuela—Act­ing Venezuela Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez has thanked Trinidad and To­ba­go and oth­er Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) coun­tries for their hu­man­i­tar­i­an as­sis­tance fol­low­ing the dev­as­tat­ing June 24 dou­ble earth­quake that killed thou­sands and left thou­sands more home­less.

The Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice (MSJ) has ac­cused both the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) and the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) of hypocrisy amid the on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the fund­ing of Bal­isi­er House, con­demn­ing both par­ties for fail­ing to en­act cam­paign fi­nance re­form de­spite years of promis­es.

Less than two weeks af­ter hun­dreds of Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion em­ploy­ees en­dured de­lays in re­ceiv­ing their June salaries, the Cor­po­ra­tion is once again await­ing Gov­ern­ment ap­proval for ad­di­tion­al fund­ing to meet its pay­roll oblig­a­tions.

The ven­dors of the Break­fast Shed have se­cured an­oth­er le­gal vic­to­ry af­ter the Court of Ap­peal re­fused an ap­pli­ca­tion by the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UDe­COTT) to have its ap­peal heard as an ur­gent mat­ter.

An open­ing date for the long-await­ed Cen­tral Block at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal (POS­GH) has not yet been set.

Res­i­dents of sev­er­al com­mu­ni­ties in San­ta Cruz and Mar­aval say flood­ing re­mains a per­sis­tent con­cern, as they fear that nar­row drains and poor waste dis­pos­al could wors­en the im­pact of heavy rain­fall lat­er this year.