As U.S. Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump pre­pares for his sec­ond term in of­fice, Chi­na is brac­ing for un­pre­dictabil­i­ty in its ties with the Unit­ed States.

Bar­ba­dos’ Prime Min­is­ter Mia Amor Mot­t­ley says she is keen for the is­land to re­sume air­lift with Ger­many, West­ern Eu­rope, and Scan­di­navia, and is op­ti­mistic that the Hon­orary Con­sul to Ger­many, Regi­na Sixt, can use her busi­ness con­nec­tions to achieve this.

The Mathu­ra fam­i­ly is ask­ing the me­dia and by ex­ten­sion the pub­lic for pri­va­cy and time to cope with the death of their sis­ter and moth­er as well as their fa­ther’s ar­rest.

A 35-year-old man from Point Fortin has been ac­quit­ted of rap­ing his sis­ter's 12-year-old step­daugh­ter.

Foul play has been ruled out in the deaths of a Ce­dros man and Pe­nal woman whose bod­ies were dis­cov­ered in sep­a­rate in­ci­dents last week.

Less than a year af­ter he was charged with shoot­ing a neigh­bour af­ter he in­ter­vened in a dis­pute, a 39-year-old Mara­bel­la man has been con­vict­ed and sen­tenced.

A 38-year-old man from Ch­agua­nas has been grant­ed $150,000 bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court for pos­ses­sion of an as­sault ri­fle.

With Christ­mas fast ap­proach­ing, cit­i­zens are be­ing as­sured that there will be a height­ened po­lice pres­ence in and around the cap­i­tal, as well as in oth­er ma­jor shop­ping dis­tricts.

Pres­i­dent of Ar­rival Alive, Sharon In­gle­field, is call­ing for a re­view of the speed lim­it for main roads.

Trinidad Ce­ment Ltd (TCL) re­tirees and cur­rent work­ers con­tin­ued their protest out­side the com­pa­ny’s Clax­ton Bay fa­cil­i­ty this morn­ing, de­mand­ing out­stand­ing Cost of Liv­ing Al­lowance (CO­LA) and gain-shar­ing pay­ments dat­ing back to 2012.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion, Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian is en­cour­ag­ing stu­dents to pur­sue their dreams with dili­gence. 

The De­vel­op­ment Bank of Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean and the Com­mon­wealth Sec­re­tari­at have signed an agree­ment to ad­vance sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment and cli­mate re­silience ini­tia­tives across Caribbean Small Is­land De­vel­op­ing States (SIDS).