In an emo­tion­al send-off, Dr Kei­th Row­ley, in his last Cari­com meet­ing as a head of gov­ern­ment, last night urged his fel­low Caribbean lead­ers to keep uni­ty alive as he pledged to al­ways an­swer Cari­com’s call even in re­tire­ment.

Cari­com has ap­point­ed T&T's For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Dr Amery Browne to chair an in­ter-gov­ern­men­tal work­ing group tasked with dis­man­tling the bar­ri­ers af­fect­ing the smooth move­ment of goods through­out the Caribbean.

Cari­com lead­ers are hop­ing to have a meet­ing with US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump to dis­cuss the pos­si­ble im­pact of his ad­min­is­tra­tion’s poli­cies on the re­gion.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) faced an un­ex­pect­ed set­back to its screen­ing ex­er­cise on Fri­day due to elec­tri­cal is­sues at its cen­tral head­quar­ters.

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing for­mer Es­tate Man­age­ment and Busi­ness De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Ltd (EM­BD) board mem­bers and oth­er of­fi­cials may be tak­ing le­gal ac­tion against the com­pa­ny, as they claim they are be­ing ha­rassed and asked to give state­ments against Dr Roodal Mooni­lal.

There is grow­ing un­ease among Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als liv­ing in the Unit­ed States dur­ing Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s sec­ond term, as many fear mass de­por­ta­tions.

Act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Ju­nior Ben­jamin yes­ter­day met with some 100 po­lice of­fi­cers who were af­fect­ed by the judg­ment against the pro­mo­tion­al process for in­spec­tors to as­sis­tant su­per­in­ten­dents.

This, from act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Ju­nior Ben­jamin yes­ter­day, as he said mi­nor in­fra­struc­tur­al works were be­ing at­tend­ed to.

Six­ty-four-year-old Dru­patee Chance was man­u­al­ly stran­gled and beat­en on her head, an au­top­sy at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre has con­firmed.

Po­lice said the man was a sus­pect in a house­break­ing, where he al­leged­ly stole noth­ing but is al­leged to have cooked him­self a meal. 

Stu­dents, par­ents and staff of the Na­tion­al Cen­tre for Per­sons with Dis­abil­i­ties were yes­ter­day treat­ed to an elec­tri­fy­ing per­for­mance by the So­ca King Machel Mon­tano.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) deputy leader David Lee is claim­ing there was di­vi­sion among Gov­ern­ment mem­bers at last Thurs­day’s Cab­i­net meet­ing re­gard­ing who to award the Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery to.