Two men from Pe­nal have been each grant­ed $250,000 bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court charged with hu­man traf­fick­ing.

Pop­u­lar Port-of-Spain busi­ness­man Par­manan “Pan­cho” Yarna, a fa­mil­iar and beloved fig­ure in the cap­i­tal’s busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty, has passed away. 

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo has pro­claimed three pieces of leg­is­la­tion that will take ef­fect on 17 No­vem­ber, mark­ing an­oth­er phase of the Gov­ern­ment’s ef­fort to strength­en Trinidad and To­ba­go’s fi­nan­cial-crime frame­work.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has warned that Trinidad and To­ba­go is at “grave risk”, ac­cus­ing the Gov­ern­ment of aban­don­ing the re­gion’s decades-old neu­tral stance and plac­ing the coun­try in the path of po­ten­tial mil­i­tary con­flict be­tween the Unit­ed States and Venezuela.