The Unit­ed States has an­nounced hun­dreds of mil­lions of dol­lars in new com­mit­ments for Caribbean health care, se­cu­ri­ty and dig­i­tal in­fra­struc­ture, as Wash­ing­ton seeks to strength­en its strate­gic ties with the re­gion.

The dis­ap­pear­ance of two To­ba­go fish­er­men has tak­en a phys­i­cal and emo­tion­al toll on their rel­a­tives.

A com­plaint seek­ing to sus­pend or re­voke car­di­ol­o­gist Dr Con­rad Mur­ray’s tem­po­rary med­ical li­cence be­cause of his manslaugh­ter con­vic­tion in con­nec­tion with the death of US pop su­per­star Michael Jack­son has been dis­missed.

Pan Trin­ba­go will par­tic­i­pate in To­ba­go Car­ni­val af­ter the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly set­tled the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s out­stand­ing pay­ments. Its Pan and Pow­der event is sched­uled for Oc­to­ber 31.

Se­nior Coun­sel Anand Ram­lo­gan is call­ing for the Pub­lic Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PSC) to be dis­band­ed af­ter his client emerged vic­to­ri­ous in an al­most two-decade le­gal bat­tle over the com­mis­sion’s de­ci­sion to de­clare that she had aban­doned her job af­ter be­ing ab­sent for sev­er­al months due to in­jury and preg­nan­cy.

Prison of­fi­cers in­ter­cept­ed three pack­ages con­tain­ing cig­a­rettes, wrap­ping pa­pers, sus­pect­ed drugs and lighters thrown over the perime­ter wall of the Port of Spain Prison ear­ly Thurs­day morn­ing.

For­mer Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro in­sist­ed in court on Thurs­day that new­ly un­sealed tor­ture al­le­ga­tions against him and his wife were “false ac­cu­sa­tions.”

Scrap met­al yards across Trinidad and To­ba­go are be­ing told to sus­pend op­er­a­tions fol­low­ing the ex­piry of a le­gal or­der that ex­tend­ed the time for the in­dus­try to op­er­ate un­der its ex­ist­ing arrange­ments.

A 23-year-old Ari­ma man iden­ti­fied as a per­son of in­ter­est in a re­cent home in­va­sion re­mains in po­lice cus­tody af­ter a shoot­ing in­volv­ing of­fi­cers in Waller­field on Wednes­day night.

A com­plaint seek­ing to sus­pend or re­voke car­di­ol­o­gist Dr Con­rad Mur­ray’s tem­po­rary med­ical li­cence over his manslaugh­ter con­vic­tion in con­nec­tion with the death of pop su­per­star Michael Jack­son has been dis­missed.

Pan Trin­ba­go will par­tic­i­pate in To­ba­go Car­ni­val af­ter the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly set­tled the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s out­stand­ing pay­ments, with its Pan and Pow­der event sched­uled for Oc­to­ber 31 and ded­i­cat­ed to the late Mighty Spar­row.

Ed­i­tor’s note: An ear­li­er ver­sion of this sto­ry in­cor­rect­ly re­port­ed that the crane op­er­a­tor had died fol­low­ing the col­lapse of a crane at Peren­co’s Samaan Al­pha plat­form. Guardian Me­dia was ini­tial­ly giv­en in­for­ma­tion that the op­er­a­tor had died. Peren­co has since con­firmed that he sur­vived, was treat­ed at hos­pi­tal and dis­charged. We re­gret the er­ror.