Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is stand­ing firm in her sup­port for the US Navy’s pres­ence near Venezuela, telling crit­ics that for the next five years her for­eign and do­mes­tic pol­i­cy will un­apolo­get­i­cal­ly be “Trinidad and To­ba­go first.”

Venezuela’s Jus­tice Min­is­ter Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo is de­scrib­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s in­ter­fer­ence in Venezuela’s af­fairs as “shame­ful.”

With just two weeks re­main­ing be­fore the new aca­d­e­m­ic year be­gins on Sep­tem­ber 8, the Op­po­si­tion is ques­tion­ing the Gov­ern­ment over what it calls a de­lay in dis­burs­ing the promised School Sup­plies and Book Grant.

That was the blunt warn­ing is­sued by Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les yes­ter­day, as she con­demned what she de­scribed as po­lit­i­cal in­ter­fer­ence in the af­fairs of one of the coun­try’s lead­ing fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is ac­cus­ing the Gov­ern­ment of fail­ing to pay dai­ly-rat­ed work­ers last Fri­day, while al­so de­lay­ing pen­sions and with­hold­ing pay­ments to CEPEP con­trac­tors and em­ploy­ees of the Na­tion­al Main­te­nance Train­ing and Se­cu­ri­ty Com­pa­ny Ltd (MTS).

Trinci­ty/Mal­oney Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment Camille Robin­son-Reg­is is re­port­ed­ly re­cov­er­ing fol­low­ing a re­cent med­ical pro­ce­dure, though she has yet to re­turn to full health.

Pi­o­neer of the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate, Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) par­lia­men­tar­i­an, pub­lic ser­vant par ex­cel­lence, gov­ern­ment min­is­ter, Patrick Man­ning’s right-hand man and, through decades of ser­vice, al­ways soft-spo­ken and hum­ble.

A High Court judge has de­clared that a Rox­bor­ough fam­i­ly is en­ti­tled to a right of way across a neigh­bour­ing prop­er­ty, af­ter decades of dis­put­ed ac­cess left their land ef­fec­tive­ly land­locked.

Ven­dors at the San­gre Grande open mar­ket have been forced to re­lo­cate to the pave­ment af­ter a struc­ture col­lapsed, mak­ing their reg­u­lar stalls a safe­ty risk for them­selves and shop­pers.

Po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tors will be seek­ing ad­vice from the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions on what charges, if any, would be laid against a man who re­port­ed­ly as­sault­ed a woman at a taxi stand in Tu­na­puna last week.

A Trinidad man who was re­port­ed miss­ing for al­most a week was found dead in his To­ba­go apart­ment yes­ter­day by his co-work­er.

To­ba­go po­lice are search­ing for the sus­pect be­hind the is­land’s fifth mur­der for 2025, af­ter 26-year-old shop own­er Ky­lon Mal­colm was gunned down at his busi­ness place in Pem­broke on Sun­day night.