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.

A for­mer prime min­is­ter says the out­come of Tues­day’s Unit­ed States midterm elec­tions should serve as a les­son for Trinidad and To­ba­go.

With De­moc­rats now in con­trol of the US Con­gress fol­low­ing Tues­day's midterm elec­tions, two for­mer Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) MPs are warn­ing that Trinidad and To­ba­go could face in­creased scruti­ny over its for­eign pol­i­cy po­si­tions and se­cu­ri­ty co­op­er­a­tion with Wash­ing­ton.

A 43-year-old Venezue­lan woman and a 32-year-old Trinida­di­an man have been ar­rest­ed as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to the al­leged traf­fick­ing and sex­u­al ex­ploita­tion of a 15-year-old Venezue­lan girl.

A new Rio Claro Fire Sta­tion is ex­pect­ed to be con­struct­ed on the site of the old fa­cil­i­ty be­fore the end of the cur­rent fis­cal year, ac­cord­ing to Fire Ser­vice As­so­ci­a­tion (FSA) pres­i­dent Keone Guy.

A Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies lec­tur­er has warned Caribbean coun­tries to guard against the mis­use of ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence, say­ing the tech­nol­o­gy could be ex­ploit­ed for or­gan­ised crime, cy­ber­at­tacks, dis­in­for­ma­tion and for­eign in­ter­fer­ence.

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers has tak­en to the wa­ter in An­tigua and Bar­bu­da.

Op­po­si­tion politi­cians in To­ba­go are con­demn­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to ab­stain from vot­ing on Tues­day on a Unit­ed Na­tions (UN) Gen­er­al As­sem­bly res­o­lu­tion con­cern­ing the In­ter­na­tion­al Crim­i­nal Court (ICC).