The Unit­ed States Em­bassy in Trinidad and To­ba­go said all de­ci­sions on Amer­i­can visas rest sole­ly with the Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment and not with any for­eign au­thor­i­ty.

The Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion and the World Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion have named Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Dr Ra­jeev Na­gas­sar as the first re­cip­i­ent of the Caribbean An­timi­cro­bial Re­sis­tance Lead­er­ship Award. The award was cre­at­ed in mem­o­ry of Ja­maican vet­eri­nar­i­an and pub­lic health ad­vo­cate Dr Suzan McLen­non-Miguel.

The Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty has ini­ti­at­ed a probe in­to an in­ci­dent re­port­ed by Unit­ed States vis­i­tor Shon­tice McKen­zie, who said she faced an un­pleas­ant ex­change with an Im­mi­gra­tion Of­fi­cer up­on ar­rival at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

A 38-year-old St Joseph man wres­tled a gun away from a ban­dit who tried to rob his moth­er at their home on Sun­day night.

At least 13 peo­ple have been killed in a fire that has en­gulfed sev­er­al high-rise apart­ment build­ings in Hong Kong, au­thor­i­ties say, with some res­i­dents re­port­ed trapped in­side.

A po­lice of­fi­cer as­signed to the Mount­ed Branch and his horse were in­jured when a truck dri­ver at­tempt­ed to over­take them in St Clair on Mon­day af­ter­noon.

One man is now in po­lice cus­tody fol­low­ing the mur­der of 23-year-old Is­rael Collin in Ma­son Hall on Tues­day night, as To­ba­go’s homi­cide toll ris­es to sev­en for the year.

srael hand­ed over the bod­ies of 15 Pales­tini­ans on Wednes­day, a day af­ter Hamas re­turned the re­mains of an Is­raeli hostage. This is the lat­est swap as part of a U.S.-bro­kered cease­fire reached last month, whose first phase is com­ing to an end.

Ja­maican reg­gae lovers and artistes in the New York Met­ro­pol­i­tan Area are pay­ing glow­ing trib­utes to leg­endary Ja­maican singer, song­writer and ac­tor Jim­my Cliff, who died on Mon­day at the age of 81 years.

Mi­nor­i­ty Leader Kelvon Mor­ris is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine to come clean with To­bag­o­ni­ans af­ter a Unit­ed States Air Force C-17A Globe­mas­ter III mil­i­tary trans­port plane was seen and heard in To­ba­go ear­ly this morn­ing.

Is­sues of transna­tion­al or­gan­ised crime and re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty, with dou­bles as re­fresh­ments, were the main fea­tures of a closed-door, al­most two-hour meet­ing be­tween Chair­man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen­er­al Dan Caine and Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar on Tues­day.

Top US mil­i­tary of­fi­cials are meet­ing lead­ers of Caribbean na­tions this week as the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion has es­ca­lat­ed its fire­pow­er in the re­gion as part of what it calls a cam­paign against drug traf­fick­ing.