ARI­ZONA — As the Unit­ed States pre­pares for a surge in glob­al trav­el ahead of the up­com­ing FI­FA World Cup, of­fi­cials say stronger col­lab­o­ra­tion across agen­cies and coun­tries is crit­i­cal to com­bat­ing pass­port and visa fraud, which of­ten links to transna­tion­al crim­i­nal net­works.

Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny chair­man Ger­ald Ramdeen is de­fend­ing the state com­pa­ny’s de­ci­sion to end its 21-year re­la­tion­ship with in­ter­na­tion­al rat­ings agency Moody’s, say­ing the move does not rep­re­sent a re­treat from trans­paren­cy or in­de­pen­dent scruti­ny.

ARI­ZONA — Even as the Caribbean con­tin­ues to grap­ple with il­le­gal mi­gra­tion, Unit­ed States se­nior ad­vis­er and for­mer jour­nal­ist CJ Kara­mar­gin has con­firmed the US is strength­en­ing and ex­pand­ing sec­tions of its bor­der wall to curb il­le­gal mi­gra­tion, while al­so main­tain­ing sys­tems to care for mi­grants and ad­dress hu­man­i­tar­i­an needs.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) Na­tion­al Women’s League has come out strong­ly in de­fence of Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les, in­sist­ing she will de­cide the fu­ture of Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates “in due course” while ac­cus­ing the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) of hypocrisy and po­lit­i­cal dis­trac­tion.

The nude body of an uniden­ti­fied man of mixed de­scent was dis­cov­ered by work­ers at Co­cal Es­tate, Man­zanil­la, on Mon­day.

The Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed (NGC) has fi­nalised a ma­jor Gas Sales Con­tract (GSC) with Methanol Hold­ings (Trinidad) Lim­it­ed (MHTL), the largest methanol pro­duc­er on the Point Lisas Es­tate. Signed on Tues­day at NGC’s Point Lisas head­quar­ters, the agree­ment marks the suc­cess­ful con­clu­sion of 100 per­cent of NGC’s gas con­tract re­newals with down­stream cus­tomers and Pro­man Group com­pa­nies.

Of­fi­cers at­tached to the Mor­vant Po­lice Sta­tion and the North East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force (NEDTF) seized 15 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in Mor­vant on Mon­day.

The In­dus­tri­al Court of Trinidad and To­ba­go is mourn­ing the death of long-serv­ing judge Her Ho­n­our Ms Bindi­mat­tie Ma­habir.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said he is hold­ing off on a mil­i­tary strike on Iran planned for Tues­day be­cause “se­ri­ous ne­go­ti­a­tions” are un­der­way.

The Ho­n­ourable De­vesh Ma­haraj, Min­is­ter of Jus­tice and Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, pre­sent­ed in­stru­ments of ap­point­ment to the new­ly ap­point­ed board of the Le­gal Aid & Ad­vi­so­ry Au­thor­i­ty dur­ing a cer­e­mo­ny held at the Au­thor­i­ty’s head of­fice to­day.

The Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) has voiced grave con­cern over es­ca­lat­ing hos­til­i­ties in the Mid­dle East, par­tic­u­lar­ly mil­i­tary ac­tion in the Strait of Hor­muz. Cari­com high­light­ed the se­vere hu­man­i­tar­i­an toll, threats to civ­il in­fra­struc­ture, and the desta­bi­liz­ing im­pact on glob­al mar­kets caused by the con­flict.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) is mourn­ing the pass­ing of Emer­i­tus Pro­fes­sor Bald­win Mootoo, a pi­o­neer­ing aca­d­e­m­ic whose ca­reer was deeply wo­ven in­to the in­sti­tu­tion’s his­to­ry and growth.