As he takes stock of his Re­pub­li­can Par­ty’s midterm drub­bing, Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump now faces the dif­fi­cult ques­tion of what to do about his un­pop­u­lar 8-month-old war against Iran.

Steel­bands in Point Fortin and San Fer­nan­do kicked off the 2027 Na­tion­al Panora­ma sin­gle pan pre­lim­i­nar­ies on Wednes­day night, per­form­ing tunes from a range of lo­cal artistes, in­clud­ing Black Stal­in, Machel Mon­tano and Voice.

The Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion on Thurs­day es­ca­lat­ed its eco­nom­ic cam­paign against Cu­ba, is­su­ing a de­ter­mi­na­tion that clears the path for U.S. sanc­tions on sev­er­al cru­cial sec­tors of the is­land’s econ­o­my while al­so tar­get­ing Chi­nese-based sup­pli­ers to Ha­vana’s mil­i­tary forces.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is­sued 84,263 traf­fic tick­ets be­tween Jan­u­ary 1 and No­vem­ber 3 this year, with breach­ing traf­fic signs, fail­ing to wear seat­belts and dri­ving with­out a valid ve­hi­cle in­spec­tion cer­tifi­cate top­ping the list of of­fences.

The Unit­ed States Coast Guard says it has of­floaded about 3,622 pounds of co­caine, val­ued at an es­ti­mat­ed US$27 mil­lion, seized dur­ing two op­er­a­tions in the Caribbean Sea.

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.