Is­rael said Thurs­day it would es­tab­lish 22 Jew­ish set­tle­ments in the oc­cu­pied West Bank, in­clud­ing the le­gal­iza­tion of out­posts al­ready built with­out gov­ern­ment au­tho­riza­tion.

Clin­i­cal trau­ma­tol­o­gist Hanif Ben­jamin is ad­vis­ing teach­ers to set up so­cial me­dia ac­counts so that they can keep up­dat­ed with what’s hap­pen­ing with their stu­dents.

A Gas­par­il­lo land­lord, who ob­tained an il­le­gal firearm for pro­tec­tion af­ter be­ing the tar­get of sev­er­al home in­va­sions, was yes­ter­day cart­ed off to prison to start a four-year sen­tence.

De­spite as­sur­ances from Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath that no jobs will be lost as the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) re­verts to its orig­i­nal man­age­ment struc­ture, in­ter­nal con­cerns are mount­ing over po­ten­tial job loss­es, le­gal bat­tles and ris­ing costs to the state.

The Trinidad Youth Coun­cil (TYC) is now call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to ex­pand the Gov­ern­ment As­sis­tance for Tu­ition Ex­pens­es (GATE) pro­gramme, fol­low­ing the abrupt sus­pen­sion of ap­pli­ca­tions for for­eign stu­dent visas by the Don­ald Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion.

It’s of­fi­cial! T&T’s Joshua Re­grel­lo’s 31 hours of play­ing the steel­pan has been ac­cept­ed in­to the Guin­ness World Records.

A five-hour meet­ing be­tween Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has drawn crit­i­cism from Mi­nor­i­ty Leader Kelvon Mor­ris who claimed the ses­sion re­flect­ed close align­ment be­tween Au­gus­tine and the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC). Mor­ris said both par­ties “were joined at the hip.”

To­ba­go stake­hold­ers are cau­tious­ly op­ti­mistic af­ter Tues­day’s meet­ing be­tween Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine.

Po­lice of­fi­cers as­signed to sta­tions along the north­east coast, name­ly Matu­ra, Matelot and To­co, are call­ing on Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der to have po­lice ve­hi­cles sent there so they can car­ry out their du­ties.

Work­ers at the Na­tion­al Flour Mills (NFM) staged a protest in front of the build­ing on Wright­son Road, Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day, over stalled wage ne­go­ti­a­tions. 

Dance­hall megas­tar Adid­ja “Vy­bz Kar­tel” Palmer has been cleared to ar­rive and in Trinidad ahead of his per­for­mance at the One Caribbean Uni­ty Mu­sic Fes­ti­val sched­uled for Sat­ur­day night at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah in Port-of-Spain.

Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tary in the Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism Min­istry, Ran­dall Karim, has switched places with the PS in the For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­istry.