Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young says US Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio has giv­en the as­sur­ance that the Unit­ed States “will not harm Trinidad and To­ba­go.”

A knife-wield­ing as­sailant was among five peo­ple se­ri­ous­ly wound­ed in a stab­bing at­tack on a busy shop­ping cen­tral in Am­s­ter­dam, po­lice in the Dutch city said on Thurs­day. One per­son has been ar­rest­ed.

A 48-year-old man want­ed in the Unit­ed States for smug­gling over US$1 mil­lion in co­caine and hero­in in­to that coun­try is now set to be ex­tra­dit­ed af­ter suf­fer­ing yet an­oth­er le­gal de­feat.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress' prospec­tive can­di­date for Barataria/San Juan Sad­dam Ho­sein has called for Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young to re­voke Hous­ing Min­is­ter Adri­an Leonce's ap­point­ment and to have the po­lice and the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion probe Leonce's re­cent ex­pla­na­tion on a com­pa­ny reg­is­tered in 2023.

The Crop­per Foun­da­tion and Veni Ap­wann have launched a se­ries of pub­lic con­sul­ta­tions on the Draft Na­tion­al Ac­count­abil­i­ty Frame­work for civ­il so­ci­ety or­gan­i­sa­tions.

At least five peo­ple were wound­ed in a stab­bing in Am­s­ter­dam on Thurs­day, po­lice said. One per­son was ar­rest­ed.

The Is­lam­ic Home for Chil­dren in Gas­par­il­lo re­ceived a sig­nif­i­cant boost thanks to a gen­er­ous do­na­tion from Marubeni Pow­er In­ter­na­tion­al Inc.

A 23-year-old dri­ver was robbed of his van when he was lured to a field in St Joseph by ban­dits with the promise of work on Tues­day night.

A taxi dri­ver who stopped to clean a stain from his car was robbed of the ve­hi­cle on Wednes­day night.

Eight sus­pects were held and two firearms and a quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion seized, by of­fi­cers dur­ing var­i­ous an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed on Wednes­day.

A sales­man was held up at gun­point and robbed of mon­ey and a case of Mon­ster bev­er­ages while con­duct­ing sales in La Brea on Wednes­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young is de­scrib­ing talks with Unit­ed States Sec­re­tary of State, Mar­co Ru­bio as very pos­i­tive and pro­duc­tive.