Hur­ri­cane Hum­ber­to formed in the At­lantic Ocean but is not cur­rent­ly threat­en­ing land as the for­mer Hur­ri­cane Gabrielle passed Fri­day across the Azores, fore­cast­ers said.

An Ari­ma man was killed in a shootout with po­lice near SWA­HA Hin­du Col­lege on Cu­napo South­ern Main Road, San­gre Grande, around 7.05 pm yes­ter­day.

In a warn­ing to the Gov­ern­ment to get its fi­nan­cial house in or­der, the glob­al rat­ing agency Stan­dard & Poor’s (S&P) yes­ter­day re­vised the coun­try’s out­look from sta­ble to neg­a­tive, while af­firm­ing its rat­ings on T&T at ‘BBB-/A-3’ long- and short-term for­eign and lo­cal cur­ren­cy sov­er­eign cred­it rat­ings.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has hailed this coun­try’s re­cent meet­ing with Sau­di Ara­bi­an en­er­gy gi­ant Sau­di Aram­co as a ma­jor step to­ward eas­ing the for­eign ex­change cri­sis and cre­at­ing jobs.

Re­tired se­nior su­per­in­ten­dent John­ny Abra­ham has been named as head of the Na­tion­al Op­er­a­tions Cen­tre (NOC) and Field Of­fice.

For­mer FI­FA ex­ec­u­tive Jack Warn­er says while he is re­lieved that US ex­tra­di­tion pro­ceed­ings against him have been per­ma­nent­ly stayed, he is still un­easy as he seeks to move on with his life.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les says she is notic­ing a wor­ry­ing spike in vi­o­lence against women and girls.

Na­tion­al award win­ner Sab­ri­na Mowlah-Baksh has called on women to em­brace their re­silience and use their in­nate po­ten­tial to chart their own path­ways.

Op­po­si­tion Chief Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les has warned that democ­ra­cy in T&T is un­der threat, af­ter House Speak­er Jagdeo Singh blocked the op­po­si­tion from ask­ing sup­ple­men­tal ques­tions dur­ing Prime Min­is­ter’s Ques­tion Time (PMQT) on Fri­day, cit­ing that the Stand­ing Or­ders do not pro­vide for such ques­tions.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) vice chair­man Dr Amery Browne says the par­ty has no com­ment on re­marks by Or­der of the Re­pub­lic of T&T (ORTT) re­cip­i­ent Pro­fes­sor Sel­wyn Cud­joe, who said he had heard crit­i­cism sug­gest­ing his award may have been linked to his af­fil­i­a­tion with the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) chair­man Mar­vin Gon­za­les is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to launch an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to whether Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der had prop­er clear­ance to vis­it in­mates at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison dur­ing his tenure as a se­nior po­lice of­fi­cer.

For­mer for­eign af­fairs min­is­ter and Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) vice chair­man Dr Amery Browne has warned Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar against what he de­scribed as “slo­ga­neer­ing” in her for­eign pol­i­cy, rais­ing con­cerns about her rhetoric on re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al af­fairs.