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).

Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) has ad­vised pas­sen­gers trav­el­ling to the Unit­ed States to com­plete a new health at­tes­ta­tion form be­fore check­ing in, as part of mea­sures in­tro­duced by US health au­thor­i­ties to guard against the spread of Ebo­la.

For­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith has called for for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and for­mer pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes to be in­ves­ti­gat­ed over their al­leged roles in the with­draw­al of a mer­it list rec­om­mend­ing him for a sec­ond term in 2021.

Po­lice seized 661.9 kilo­grammes of cannabis, with an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of $19.8 mil­lion, dur­ing an an­ti-drug op­er­a­tion off Chatham Beach, Ce­dros, yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Ro­man Catholic Arch­bish­op of Port-of-Spain Ja­son Gor­don has in­struct­ed priests to con­tin­ue of­fer­ing con­se­crat­ed wine to Catholics of all ages dur­ing Holy Com­mu­nion, say­ing the prac­tice is pro­tect­ed by the Con­sti­tu­tion.

Three women were in­jured in a car crash along the main road in Stud­ley Park around 12.20 pm yes­ter­day.

Days af­ter Tim­mi­an Fran­cois was fa­tal­ly shot by po­lice, his rel­a­tives say they have re­ceived no in­for­ma­tion about the in­ves­ti­ga­tion or when his au­top­sy will be con­duct­ed.

The Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment and Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers (NUGFW) is prepar­ing to take the dis­missal of 42 dai­ly-paid work­ers by the South-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) to the In­dus­tri­al Court af­ter a meet­ing at the Min­istry of Labour failed to re­solve the dis­pute yes­ter­day.