Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has con­demned Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar over her re­cent com­ments on the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty, ac­cus­ing her of dam­ag­ing the coun­try’s re­gion­al stand­ing.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of En­er­gy, Ernesto Ke­sar, met with ex­ec­u­tives of ARTEMIS En­er­gy Lim­it­ed on Wednes­day.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) is set to be­gin ur­gent waste­water works to­day at the Nel­son Street Hous­ing Apart­ment Com­plex fol­low­ing re­ports of over­flow­ing sewage.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is ap­peal­ing to the pub­lic for ur­gent as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing 33-year-old Mark Davis Parks, who has been miss­ing for over two months.

A co­or­di­nat­ed mil­i­tary op­er­a­tion led to the dra­mat­ic res­cue of a kid­nap­ping vic­tim late Wednes­day night, with Min­is­ter of De­fence Wayne Sturge com­mend­ing of­fi­cers for what he de­scribed as a “swift, time­ly and clin­i­cal­ly co­or­di­nat­ed” re­sponse.

A po­lice of­fi­cer has died af­ter he was struck by a ve­hi­cle while at­tempt­ing to cross the Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way near the Mal­oney traf­fic lights this morn­ing.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force says it played an in­stru­men­tal role in the res­cue of 73‑year‑old busi­ness­woman Tara Po­li­ah, who was ab­duct­ed from her San Juan home and freed at sea less than 24 hours lat­er.

Trinidad and To­ba­go will pro­vide hu­man­i­tar­i­an aid to Cu­ba but will do so in­de­pen­dent­ly rather than as part of Cari­com’s co­or­di­nat­ed re­lief ef­fort.

A Unit­ed States mil­i­tary op­er­a­tion tar­get­ing sus­pect­ed nar­co-traf­fick­ers in the Caribbean has left four men dead, in what of­fi­cials de­scribe as a “lethal ki­net­ic strike” along a known drug traf­fick­ing route.

Po­lice have res­cued a 73-year-old busi­ness­woman less than 24 hours af­ter she was ab­duct­ed from her home, in what Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro de­scribed as a “ma­jor break­through” against cross-bor­der kid­nap­ping net­works.

An Ital­ian en­gi­neer­ing group says it has se­cured a US$50 mil­lion con­tract to con­duct a re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion study on Petrotrin’s re­fin­ery in Pointe-à-Pierre. How­ev­er, Gov­ern­ment is dis­tanc­ing it­self from the arrange­ment.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine is set to meet Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to­mor­row to dis­cuss To­ba­go’s au­ton­o­my.