Mem­bers of the Unit­ed States Army and the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force (TTDF) have been par­tic­i­pat­ed in a joint mil­i­tary train­ing ex­er­cise aimed at en­hanc­ing med­ical pre­pared­ness and op­er­a­tional ef­fec­tive­ness in chal­leng­ing en­vi­ron­ments, the US mil­i­tary has said.

The Unit­ed King­dom gov­ern­ment has pub­lished new guid­ance out­lin­ing the cir­cum­stances un­der which Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als may qual­i­fy for asy­lum, months af­ter in­tro­duc­ing visa re­quire­ments for trav­ellers from the twin-is­land re­pub­lic.

A new­ly re­leased Unit­ed King­dom Gov­ern­ment as­sess­ment has paint­ed a sober­ing pic­ture of the ex­tent of gang ac­tiv­i­ty in Trinidad and To­ba­go, es­ti­mat­ing that more than 180 gangs op­er­ate across the coun­try and link­ing or­gan­ised crim­i­nal groups to rough­ly one-third of all mur­ders.

Christo­pher Sama­roo, the fa­ther of po­lice shoot­ing vic­tim Joshua Sama­roo, was de­tained by po­lice of­fi­cers at the St Clair Po­lice Sta­tion last evening.

Ac­tivist Alyssa Phillip and her moth­er Camille Cares­quero will reap­pear in the Siparia Mag­is­trates’ Court on Ju­ly 20 in con­nec­tion with their ar­rest dur­ing last week­end’s Labour Day cel­e­bra­tions in Fyz­abad.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Alexan­der has de­fend­ed law en­force­ment of­fi­cers, amid grow­ing crit­i­cism over the ar­rest of Alyssa Phillip and her moth­er dur­ing Labour Day cel­e­bra­tions in Fyz­abad last Fri­day, while con­demn­ing what he de­scribed as ef­forts by some pro­test­ers to de­lib­er­ate­ly pro­voke con­fronta­tions with po­lice.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) is seek­ing a record $4.12 bil­lion from Cen­tral Gov­ern­ment for fis­cal 2027.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) has sig­nalled that state-fund­ed em­ploy­ment pro­grammes like the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) and a suc­ces­sor to the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP) will con­tin­ue on the is­land, as it has re­quest­ed a com­bined $135.25 mil­lion for the ini­tia­tives in its fis­cal 2027 bud­get pro­pos­als.

The new ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port is ex­pect­ed to get some ad­di­tion­al traf­fic from next month with di­rect flights from new source mar­kets.

The 400-page his­tor­i­cal pub­li­ca­tion, ti­tled “Haunt­ing­ly Beau­ti­ful Women,” falls with­in the Undis­turbed Cul­ture Se­ries (UCS) and cel­e­brates fem­i­nine beau­ty through im­ages of hun­dreds of the most beau­ti­ful women in the world cap­tured over the last 30 years by pho­tog­ra­ph­er Browne.

As ques­tions per­sist over Trinidad and To­ba­go’s strained re­la­tion­ship with Cari­com, po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tists are di­vid­ed on whether the coun­try’s re­cent elec­tion to the Unit­ed Na­tions Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil (UN­SC) will in­flu­ence Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s de­ci­sion to per­son­al­ly at­tend and lead the na­tion­al del­e­ga­tion to the 51st Heads of Gov­ern­ment Meet­ing in St Lu­cia in two weeks.

Mi­grants who suc­cess­ful­ly reg­is­tered on­line dur­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s re­cent­ly con­clud­ed mi­grant reg­u­lar­i­sa­tion ex­er­cise but were left out of in-per­son in­ter­views are wait­ing pa­tient­ly for dates af­ter re­ceiv­ing as­sur­ances from Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der that they will be ac­com­mo­dat­ed once prop­er reg­is­tra­tion ev­i­dence is pro­vid­ed.