Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has said Trinidad and To­ba­go’s troops will be de­ployed to sup­port res­cue ef­forts fol­low­ing the MV Bari­ma tragedy in Guyana.

Po­lice seized 345 firearms over the past sev­en months, with pis­tols ac­count­ing for the largest num­ber of weapons found.

For­mer hous­ing min­is­ter and Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment (MP) for Trinci­ty/Mal­oney Camille Robin­son-Reg­is is fir­ing back at Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Alexan­der af­ter he blamed the pre­vi­ous ad­min­is­tra­tion for what he de­scribed as de­te­ri­o­rat­ing con­di­tions in Mal­oney.

Pan Trin­ba­go is mark­ing the sec­ond an­niver­sary of the steel­pan’s des­ig­na­tion as Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Na­tion­al Mu­si­cal In­stru­ment, de­scrib­ing the mile­stone as a cel­e­bra­tion of the coun­try’s cul­tur­al iden­ti­ty and the glob­al lega­cy of the on­ly acoustic mu­si­cal in­stru­ment in­vent­ed in the 20th cen­tu­ry.

This is the sen­ti­ment of some tour op­er­a­tors in To­ba­go who are back­ing An­gel­i­ca’s fam­i­ly in their law­suit against the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA).

Me­dia am­bas­sador for the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), ASP Owie Rus­sell, is urg­ing par­ents to keep a close watch on the ac­tiv­i­ties of their chil­dren as he warned that drug use among mi­nors re­mains a ma­jor con­cern.

The Unit­ed States has ex­pressed its will­ing­ness to sup­port Trinidad and To­ba­go’s am­bi­tions to be­come a re­gion­al dig­i­tal hub.

The Op­po­si­tion says it sup­ports dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion and the de­vel­op­ment of ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence (AI), but is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to hit pause on its pro­posed AI da­ta cen­tres un­til they can pro­vide more in­for­ma­tion to the pub­lic.

Af­ter years of stud­ies, strate­gies and pol­i­cy pro­pos­als, Trinidad and To­ba­go’s en­er­gy tran­si­tion re­mains large­ly on pa­per, with de­lays in ap­provals and im­ple­men­ta­tion threat­en­ing its abil­i­ty to meet its cli­mate com­mit­ments.

Sci­en­tists ex­plor­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s deep sea say they have be­come the first peo­ple to see vast stretch­es of the coun­try’s un­der­wa­ter land­scape, un­cov­er­ing thriv­ing ecosys­tems, doc­u­ment­ing rare ma­rine life and col­lect­ing spec­i­mens that may rep­re­sent species new to sci­ence.

Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Kennedy Swarats­ingh has con­grat­u­lat­ed the team be­hind Trinidad and To­ba­go’s first sci­en­tif­ic ex­pe­di­tion to ex­plore the na­tion’s deep wa­ters, prais­ing their com­mit­ment to ad­vanc­ing ma­rine sci­ence and ex­pand­ing knowl­edge of the coun­try’s ma­rine bio­di­ver­si­ty.

Pre­lim­i­nary re­ports in­di­cate that a huge wave may have caused the MV Bari­ma with 116 pas­sen­gers and a 17-mem­ber crew to cap­size on Sat­ur­day night as it made its way to Port Kai­tu­ma, a small vil­lage with­in the Bari­ma-Wai­ni ad­min­is­tra­tive re­gion of Guyana, Pub­lic Works Min­is­ter Juan Edghill has said.