Res­i­dents of Waller­field, Ari­ma, are call­ing on po­lice to in­crease pa­trols fol­low­ing a se­ries of rob­beries and break-ins with­in the last cou­ple of weeks.

Po­lice said the 30-year-old of Sawmill Av­enue was held dur­ing Op­er­a­tion Steady Guard, which was con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers in the Mor­vant dis­trict be­tween 5 pm and 9 pm.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said Sat­ur­day that the Unit­ed States and Latin Amer­i­can coun­tries are band­ing to­geth­er to com­bat vi­o­lent car­tels as his ad­min­is­tra­tion looks to demon­strate it re­mains com­mit­ted to sharp­en­ing U.S. for­eign pol­i­cy fo­cus on the West­ern Hemi­sphere even while deal­ing with five-alarm crises around the globe.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump is set to gath­er with Latin Amer­i­can lead­ers on Sat­ur­day at his Mi­a­mi-area golf club as his ad­min­is­tra­tion looks to demon­strate it’s still com­mit­ted to sharp­en­ing U.S. for­eign pol­i­cy fo­cus on the West­ern Hemi­sphere even as it deals with five-alarm crises around the globe.

One hun­dred and nine­ty-six days af­ter first pub­licly ex­press­ing sup­port for an ex­pand­ed Unit­ed States mil­i­tary pres­ence in the South­ern Caribbean, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar will to­day sit across from Unit­ed States Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, seek­ing to press for fur­ther as­sis­tance in T&T’s fight against crime.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge says the Gov­ern­ment is legal­ly jus­ti­fied in re­fus­ing to dis­close cer­tain na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty in­for­ma­tion, ar­gu­ing that the law clear­ly per­mits of­fi­cials to with­hold de­tails that could threat­en the coun­try’s de­fence or in­tel­li­gence op­er­a­tions.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has raised con­cerns about what she de­scribes as a lack of de­mo­c­ra­t­ic con­sul­ta­tion af­ter re­veal­ing that the Op­po­si­tion was not en­gaged ahead of to­day’s Shields of the Amer­i­c­as Sum­mit in Do­ral, Flori­da.

Caribbean an­a­lysts are urg­ing re­gion­al gov­ern­ments to safe­guard col­lec­tive diplo­ma­cy as the Unit­ed States to­day hosts the Shield of the Amer­i­c­as Sum­mit, fo­cused on hemi­spher­ic se­cu­ri­ty that in­cludes on­ly two lead­ers from the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com).

A heat­ed con­fronta­tion broke out in the Low­er House yes­ter­day, af­ter the Gov­ern­ment moved to abrupt­ly end de­bate on a pri­vate mem­ber’s mo­tion, trig­ger­ing a dra­mat­ic Op­po­si­tion walk­out and ac­cu­sa­tions that the ad­min­is­tra­tion was sti­fling dis­sent in Par­lia­ment.

While Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar may have some age, she’s well re­spect­ed and she has done more for T&T than any Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) MP, says Min­is­ter of the Peo­ple Van­dana Mo­hit.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is de­fend­ing its La­dy Vice Chair­man and head of the par­ty’s Na­tion­al Women’s League, Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly, af­ter she faced crit­i­cism for sharply re­buk­ing the Prime Min­is­ter’s call to ex­pel mis­be­hav­ing stu­dents from school.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) will hold elec­tions for its PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil on April 19, as the par­ty be­gins a re­build­ing process fol­low­ing its sweep­ing elec­toral de­feat in To­ba­go ear­li­er this year.