Dis­as­ter re­sponse ex­perts, mil­i­tary of­fi­cials, and hu­man­i­tar­i­an agen­cies from across the Amer­i­c­as will par­tic­i­pate in the four-day Mech­a­nism for Dis­as­ter Co­op­er­a­tion Ex­er­cise (MECODEX 2025) which gets un­der­way in Guyana on Mon­day.

Over the past 12 hours, at­mos­pher­ic con­di­tions across Trinidad and To­ba­go have re­mained rel­a­tive­ly sta­ble, aid­ed by the pres­ence of Sa­ha­ran dust, ac­cord­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TT Met Of­fice).

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump used the first ma­jor for­eign trip of his sec­ond term to out­line a vi­sion for restor­ing glob­al sta­bil­i­ty that is ground­ed in prag­ma­tism and self-in­ter­est rather than val­ues, hold­ing out U.S. ties to wealthy Gulf coun­tries as a mod­el for Amer­i­ca’s long­time foes.

As wide­spread tor­ren­tial rain­fall bat­tered the coun­try this week­end, res­i­dents of Rio Claro com­plained of se­ri­ous loss­es.

Yes­ter­day, most of Trinidad awoke to heavy rain­fall and gusty winds in some ar­eas due to the con­ver­gence of winds in the low­er lev­els of the at­mos­phere, cou­pled with favourable up­per lev­el con­di­tions, en­hanc­ing the al­ready un­sta­ble set­up.

Ch­agua­nas May­or, Faaiq Mo­hammed, is blam­ing the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment ad­min­is­tra­tion for the per­sis­tent flood­ing which oc­curs in the bor­ough.

Crim­i­nol­o­gist Dr Randy Seep­er­sad says he is not wor­ried that the im­pend­ing de­por­ta­tion of 21 na­tion­als from the Unit­ed States will pose a na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty threat to T&T.

Rel­a­tives of 25-year-old fruit ven­dor Ju­nior Ville Blair, who was shot dead in his Point Fortin home on Sat­ur­day night, do not be­lieve rob­bery was the pri­ma­ry mo­tive for his killing.

De­spite heavy rains, scores of peo­ple turned up to re­ceive life-chang­ing sup­port at a wheel­chair dis­tri­b­u­tion event host­ed by Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor of Janouras Cus­tom De­sign Ltd, Han­nah Janoura.

A woman suc­cumbed to in­juries sus­tained dur­ing a ve­hic­u­lar ac­ci­dent which oc­curred two weeks ago.

A 22-year-old man was fa­tal­ly shot by po­lice of­fi­cers dur­ing an armed con­fronta­tion ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing in Mal­ick, fol­low­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to a re­port­ed shoot­ing in San Juan hours ear­li­er.

A dis­pute over un­paid en­trance fees at the Ar­gyle Wa­ter­fall in To­ba­go end­ed with a man be­ing chopped dur­ing a con­fronta­tion on Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon.