The de­ci­sion to fire Navin Dook­er­an from the post of CEO of the Ex­port-Im­port Bank of T&T (Ex­im­bank) was done wrong­ful­ly and was gross­ly un­just, says Navin’s fa­ther, Win­ston Dook­er­an, a for­mer Con­gress of the Peo­ple leader and Peo­ple’s Part­ner­ship gov­ern­ment Fi­nance min­is­ter.

Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) Pres­i­dent Gen­er­al An­cel Ro­get has made good on his threat to sue for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley for defama­tion.

One hour of fire­works for the up­com­ing Old Year’s Night and the prospect of noise-re­duc­ing fire­works ahead.

Se­cu­ri­ty ex­perts are push­ing back against Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s claim that an un­flagged ves­sel can be treat­ed as a pi­rate ship and at­tacked in in­ter­na­tion­al wa­ters, ar­gu­ing that her ex­pla­na­tion does not align with mar­itime or in­ter­na­tion­al law.

Lo­cal fish­er­men agree that a ves­sel with­out a flag in in­ter­na­tion­al wa­ters could be mis­tak­en for a pi­rate ship, but they say the ab­sence of a flag alone does not jus­ti­fy it be­ing de­stroyed.

US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump yes­ter­day con­firmed that Amer­i­ca has tak­en con­trol of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.

Pa­tri­ot­ic Front leader Mick­ela Pan­day has crit­i­cised Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s han­dling of ques­tions sur­round­ing US mil­i­tary strikes in the re­gion, say­ing her re­spons­es show con­fu­sion, de­nial, and a lack of aware­ness about an in­ter­na­tion­al in­ci­dent un­fold­ing close to Trinidad and To­ba­go.

In the days be­fore his death, Rus­sell Be­dasse post­ed about the agony he felt over the in­jus­tices he faced af­ter los­ing both his moth­er, Shelawai­htie Be­dasse and re­stric­tions over the vis­i­ta­tion rights of his 11-year-old daugh­ter.

The North West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NWRHA) is set to pay com­pen­sa­tion to a 80-year-old woman with schiz­o­phre­nia, who suf­fered in­juries while re­ceiv­ing treat­ment at the St Ann’s Psy­chi­atric Hos­pi­tal in 2016.

BEI­JING, CHI­NA—Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is un­both­ered by re­gion­al diplo­mats who don’t agree with her views on the Caribbean.

“Every­thing I loss,” lament­ed 74-year-old pen­sion­er Hen­ry Dick as he looked at the ru­ins of his home in San Fer­nan­do fol­low­ing a fire which he be­lieved was de­lib­er­ate­ly set.

Com­mu­ni­ty ac­tivist and Mus­lim cler­ic Iman Rasheed Karim has ig­nit­ed a fresh row over the Gov­ern­ment’s pro­posed land­lord tax, ac­cus­ing of­fi­cials of ram­ming through dra­con­ian leg­is­la­tion with­out even the cour­tesy of pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion.