A scuf­fle at a Grand Bazaar casi­no be­tween a se­nior po­lice­man and a man­ag­er led to the of­fi­cer call­ing for back-up and seek­ing the ar­rest of one of the se­cu­ri­ty guards.

The Cou­va Chil­dren’s Hos­pi­tal will start re­ceiv­ing its first in­take of young pa­tients in the com­ing weeks. Cou­va South MP Bar­ry Padarath an­nounced this when he de­liv­ered the fea­ture ad­dress at Bach­he Kaand 2025 – The Chil­dren’s Chap­ter.

The World Bank says its Board of Ex­ec­u­tive Di­rec­tors has ap­proved a new project in Haiti aimed at im­prov­ing re­silient rur­al ac­ces­si­bil­i­ty and road con­nec­tiv­i­ty in the South and North de­part­ments.

Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro is warn­ing that Trinidad and To­ba­go’s joint mil­i­tary drills with the Unit­ed States could “threat­en peace” in the Caribbean.

Last Tues­day, Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro agreed with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar that tar­get­ed US strikes on sev­er­al al­leged drug-smug­gling ves­sels off the coast of Venezuela in re­cent weeks have made a “mea­sur­able im­pact” on the lo­cal drug trade, trig­ger­ing a sharp rise in the price of il­lic­it nar­cotics.

The de­ci­sion by the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UDe­COTT) to sole-se­lect a con­sul­tant for two ma­jor in­fra­struc­ture projects has prompt­ed in­dus­try sources to call for greater trans­paren­cy from the state com­pa­ny re­gard­ing the deals and fu­ture ur­ban de­vel­op­ment con­sul­tan­cy con­tracts.

As joint train­ing ex­er­cis­es be­tween the US Ma­rine Corps’ 22nd Ma­rine Ex­pe­di­tionary Unit (MEU) and the T&T De­fence Force were set to be­gin to­day, sev­er­al gov­ern­ment min­is­ters and se­nior mil­i­tary of­fi­cials re­mained tight-lipped about the de­tails of the op­er­a­tion.

Is There Not A Cause? (ITNAC) is spear­head­ing a ma­jor re­lief op­er­a­tion for Ja­maica and Haiti, where com­mu­ni­ties are still strug­gling to re­cov­er from the de­struc­tion caused by Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa, which bat­tered parts of the north­ern Caribbean ear­li­er this month.

Chief Jus­tice Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh has pledged to lead a ju­di­cia­ry that is more ef­fi­cient, ac­ces­si­ble, and col­lab­o­ra­tive, out­lin­ing a clear vi­sion for his tenure.

A dis­turb­ing video has in­ten­si­fied fear in the Erin fish­ing com­mu­ni­ty, show­ing fish­er­man Daniel Abra­ham ly­ing on the ground while be­ing beat­en—days af­ter he and two oth­er men were al­leged­ly kid­napped by Span­ish-speak­ing at­tack­ers.

The labour move­ment is mourn­ing the pass­ing of Clifton Simp­son, First Deputy Pres­i­dent Gen­er­al of the Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment and Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers (NUGFW), who died yes­ter­day at the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal in To­ba­go.

Few­er res­i­dents are us­ing Palmiste Park for ex­er­cise fol­low­ing two rob­beries this week, prompt­ing calls for in­creased po­lice pa­trols, se­cu­ri­ty cam­eras, and park war­dens.