The spir­it of pa­tri­o­tism re­mains alive and well at Silk Cot­ton Dri­ve, Home­land Gar­dens, Cunu­pia, de­spite the can­cel­la­tion of this year’s In­de­pen­dence Day Pa­rade.

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers says this coun­try will be stay­ing out of the cur­rent im­passe be­tween the Unit­ed States and Venezuela, and he is urg­ing the pop­u­la­tion to put aside any fear amid the on­go­ing ten­sions.

For­mer Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has warned that the im­pend­ing ar­rival of US mil­i­tary as­sets in the Caribbean will test the Gov­ern­ment’s com­mit­ment to de­fend­ing the re­gion as a zone of peace.

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers says he takes no is­sue with Unit­ed States Vice Pres­i­dent JD Vance cit­ing T&T as an ex­am­ple of high crime, as he be­lieves Vance was re­fer­ring to con­di­tions un­der the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion.

The three Unit­ed States war­ships de­ployed to the Caribbean are ex­pect­ed to ar­rive to­mor­row, and as they move in, Venezue­lans liv­ing in Trinidad are hope­ful that the de­ploy­ment will lead to the re­moval of Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro. They are al­so wish­ing for new elec­tions to be held, en­abling them to re­turn home peace­ful­ly.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says of­fi­cers will not com­pro­mise the in­tegri­ty of on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions to rush charges against peo­ple de­tained dur­ing the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE).

Four sus­pects were ar­rest­ed this week dur­ing on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) op­er­a­tions across the coun­try.

The Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice has con­demned the al­leged ac­tion of a Woman Po­lice Con­sta­ble, who was sched­uled to ap­pear be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court at the Ch­agua­nas Po­lice Sta­tion yes­ter­day af­ter be­ing charged with three counts of Lar­ce­ny by Trick. The WPC is ac­cused of re­ceiv­ing over $35,000 to speed up the process for grant­i­ng a li­cence to car­ry a gun.

An act­ing As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dent of Pris­ons with over 20 years of ser­vice was de­tained on Thurs­day night by po­lice of­fi­cials un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) as part of the on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to il­le­gal ac­tiv­i­ties at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP), Arou­ca.

The daugh­ter of 39-year-old SWAT se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer Rox­anne Philip says that af­ter hear­ing her moth­er was in an ac­ci­dent, she thought that just like the last time she was in a mishap, her moth­er was go­ing to make it.

For­mer Miss T&T/World Aché Abra­hams has spo­ken out about her painful ex­pe­ri­ence in the pageant world, say­ing it left her emo­tion­al­ly, men­tal­ly, and fi­nan­cial­ly drained.

To­ba­go East MP David Thomas says the long-await­ed con­sul­ta­tion on stand-your-ground leg­is­la­tion will take place in To­ba­go by the mid­dle of next week.