A 36-year-old man is re­cov­er­ing in hos­pi­tal af­ter be­ing shot out­side his home in Bethel, To­ba­go, around mid­night on Mon­day.

For the first time in al­most 20 years, trav­ellers may no longer be re­quired to take off their shoes dur­ing se­cu­ri­ty screen­ings at U.S. air­ports.

A Venezue­lan na­tion­al drowned yes­ter­day while clean­ing a pond in Bar­rack­pore. He has been iden­ti­fied as 23-year-old Zeiller Emer­son Gon­za­les, who was stay­ing at GP Road, Bar­rack­pore.

A sol­dier was among three peo­ple ar­rest­ed dur­ing an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions in the north­ern polic­ing di­vi­sion and in To­ba­go on Mon­day.

Dig­i­cel has an­nounced the im­me­di­ate clo­sure of its Caribbean-wide news plat­form Loop News and plans to wind down re­gion­al sports broad­cast­er Sports­Max by Au­gust 8th. The tele­coms gi­ant says the move marks a strate­gic piv­ot away from con­sumer-fac­ing con­tent to a greater fo­cus on en­ter­prise so­lu­tions and dig­i­tal ser­vices un­der its busi­ness arm.

U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump sparked hys­te­ria in the in­ter­na­tion­al mar­kets this spring by an­nounc­ing tar­iff rates on dozens of coun­tries be­fore un­veil­ing a 90-day ne­go­ti­at­ing pe­ri­od.

If you’re one of the thou­sands ap­ply­ing for a US non­im­mi­grant visa, pre­pare to pay an ad­di­tion­al $US250 fee once the visa is grant­ed. The new ‘visa in­tegri­ty fee’ is part of US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s ‘One Big Beau­ti­ful Bill’, which was signed in­to law on Ju­ly 4th. The near­ly 900-page long bill aims to, among oth­er things, re­duce tax­es and oth­er­wise ad­dress agen­cies and pro­grams through­out the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment. Here’s what we know so far:

Bar­ba­dos has pro­duced 96 000 tonnes of sug­ar for the 2025 sug­ar cane har­vest in­clud­ing 6.8 mil­lion kilo­grammes of mo­lasses.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she will call in the An­ti-Cor­rup­tion In­ves­ti­ga­tions Bu­reau (ACIB) to probe miss­ing da­ta tied to road and drainage works al­leged­ly car­ried out un­der the for­mer ad­min­is­tra­tion.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath says 18,000 high-per­for­mance lap­tops will be dis­trib­uted to Form One stu­dents as part of the Gov­ern­ment’s dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion plan for schools.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe says the Gov­ern­ment is pre­pared to con­front the dengue threat with sup­port from the In­sect Vec­tor Con­trol Di­vi­sion.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has launched a two-week ca­nine train­ing course to boost the coun­try’s abil­i­ty to de­tect firearms, com­po­nents, and am­mu­ni­tion at ports, air­ports, and bor­der cross­ings.