A man who was mis­tak­en­ly kept in prison for eight years af­ter be­ing freed of an ar­son charge has won his ap­peal seek­ing in­creased com­pen­sa­tion.

Paraguayan Pres­i­dent San­ti­a­go Peña re­signed Thurs­day af­ter los­ing the back­ing of his own par­ty, as protests rocked the cap­i­tal for a third day over the col­lapse of Ueno Bank, a ma­jor dig­i­tal lender tied to his gov­ern­ment that froze mil­lions of peo­ple’s sav­ings.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s hu­man rights record will come un­der scruti­ny at the Unit­ed Na­tions next week, with sub­mis­sions from civ­il so­ci­ety or­gan­i­sa­tions and oth­er stake­hold­ers rais­ing con­cerns about emer­gency pow­ers, prison con­di­tions, gen­der-based vi­o­lence, dis­crim­i­na­tion and the treat­ment of mi­grants.

Three men were ar­rest­ed af­ter po­lice found a firearm, am­mu­ni­tion and a black ski mask dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in Tabaquite on Wednes­day night.

A 19-year-old man was shot dead by a sol­dier dur­ing a po­lice raid at his Fyz­abad home on Wednes­day af­ter­noon af­ter he al­leged­ly point­ed a firearm at mem­bers of the search team.

Cris­tiano Ronal­do an­nounced on Thurs­day he won’t play for Por­tu­gal any­more, end­ing a ca­reer that spanned six World Cups and in­clud­ed a Eu­ro­pean ti­tle and the men’s all-time in­ter­na­tion­al scor­ing record.

Trinidad and To­ba­go's hu­man rights record will come un­der ex­am­i­na­tion by the Unit­ed Na­tions on Mon­day, with the Gov­ern­ment's lat­est sub­mis­sion ac­knowl­edg­ing gaps in the coun­try's pro­tec­tion of refugees and asy­lum seek­ers, along­side con­cerns about hu­man traf­fick­ing, vi­o­lence against women and chil­dren, and dis­crim­i­na­tion.

Mal­oney Gar­dens res­i­dents want a stronger po­lice pres­ence in their com­mu­ni­ty but are urg­ing of­fi­cers to show re­straint when in­ter­act­ing with young men, warn­ing that not every­one they en­counter is a crim­i­nal.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is brush­ing aside con­cerns that the De­moc­rats’ sweep­ing vic­to­ries in the Unit­ed States midterm elec­tions could un­der­mine Trinidad and To­ba­go’s re­la­tion­ship with Wash­ing­ton, in­sist­ing that co­op­er­a­tion be­tween the two coun­tries will con­tin­ue re­gard­less of who con­trols the Amer­i­can po­lit­i­cal ma­chin­ery.

WASH­ING­TON-De­moc­rats are rid­ing their sweep of Con­gress in­to a new era, ea­ger to meet vot­er de­mands for change with plans to tack­le high costs of liv­ing and con­front Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s fi­nal years in the White House.

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr In­di­ra Ram­per­sad be­lieves the out­come of the Unit­ed States midterm elec­tions is un­like­ly to change Trinidad and To­ba­go’s for­eign pol­i­cy align­ment with Wash­ing­ton, de­spite the De­moc­rats mak­ing gains in Con­gress.

The De­moc­rats’ his­toric vic­to­ry in the Unit­ed States midterm elec­tions has raised ques­tions about the fu­ture of Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s trade poli­cies, the cost of do­ing busi­ness and the im­pli­ca­tions for Trinidad and To­ba­go’s en­er­gy ex­ports.