Her­itage sites in Trinidad and To­ba­go must be pre­served to safe­guard the coun­try’s his­to­ry, ac­cord­ing to vis­it­ing ar­chae­ol­o­gist Pro­fes­sor Mark Hauser, who is lead­ing doc­u­men­ta­tion work at the his­toric Cedar Grove Es­tate in South Trinidad.

Re­ports in­di­cate that around 2:40 am, Layne was lim­ing at a bar in Boodooville when he had an al­ter­ca­tion with an­oth­er man and struck him on the head with a bot­tle. He was sub­se­quent­ly put out of the bar but re­mained out­side.

In­ter­na­tion­al hote­lier Hilton is prepar­ing to with­draw its brand from the State-owned prop­er­ty af­ter the Gov­ern­ment failed to un­der­take ex­ten­sive cap­i­tal up­grades—es­ti­mat­ed to be over US$600,000 —re­quired to main­tain the fa­cil­i­ty to in­ter­na­tion­al op­er­at­ing stan­dards, ac­cord­ing to lease agree­ments, reg­is­tered records, pro­cure­ment doc­u­ments, union cor­re­spon­dence and in­dus­try analy­sis re­viewed by Guardian Me­dia In­ves­ti­ga­tions.

The Unit­ed States is as­sist­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go with the de­vel­op­ment of in­fra­struc­ture to com­ple­ment an ad­vanced pas­sen­ger screen­ing sys­tem that will al­low au­thor­i­ties to iden­ti­fy po­ten­tial threats even be­fore trav­ellers ar­rive in the coun­try.

De­spite re­ports in in­ter­na­tion­al me­dia that a tanker car­ry­ing fu­el orig­i­nal­ly ‌bound for Cu­ba on Fri­day changed its des­ti­na­tion to Trinidad and To­ba­go, ship track­ers have now stat­ed the ves­sel is head­ed to Venezuela.

Three po­lice of­fi­cers have been de­tained as part of an on­go­ing probe in­to al­leged crim­i­nal con­duct.

Spir­i­tu­al Bap­tists claim they were de­nied ap­proval to host a planned march in San Fer­nan­do, ini­tial­ly be­liev­ing the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) may have been a fac­tor.

Records ob­tained un­der the Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Act re­veal that the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter host­ed a $160,135 Christ­mas staff event at the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre, even as min­istries were asked to lim­it fes­tive spend­ing. A sec­ond Christ­mas event, de­scribed as a “sup­per”, how­ev­er, was fi­nanced from the pro­ceeds of a pri­or tick­et­ed din­ner, at no cost to the State.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has crit­i­cised the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TATT) for re­view­ing the me­dia’s broad­cast of his “jamette” com­ment, ques­tion­ing why the reg­u­la­tor had not act­ed dur­ing past po­lit­i­cal con­tro­ver­sies.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has high­light­ed the free­dom of re­li­gious ob­ser­vances en­joyed in Trinidad and To­ba­go com­pared to oth­er parts of the world while ex­tend­ing Eid-ul-Fitr greet­ings to the Mus­lim com­mu­ni­ty.

Mus­lim cler­ic Imam Rasheed Karim has called for greater eq­ui­ty in the dis­tri­b­u­tion of na­tion­al re­sources, say­ing Mus­lims in Trinidad and To­ba­go should re­ceive their “fair share of the na­tion­al pie.”

For­mer Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Nizam Baksh is urg­ing world lead­ers to pur­sue peace, as Mus­lims in Trinidad and To­ba­go cel­e­brate Eid fol­low­ing the holy month of Ra­madan.