On­ly three of the group of 26 Venezue­lan mi­grant chil­dren and their par­ents, who re­turned to Trinidad af­ter be­ing de­port­ed on Sun­day, have been put in State quar­an­tine pur­suant to a court or­der grant­ed, last night.

A new Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress will re­turn stal­warts who’ve been alien­at­ed from the par­ty and will have a com­mit­tee of el­ders com­pris­ing for­mer MPs, says lead­er­ship con­tender Vas­ant Bharath.

As the new year ap­proach­es, the gov­ern­ment will have to make a de­ci­sion on whether to ex­tend the stay of reg­is­tered Venezue­lans in the coun­try and one lo­cal econ­o­mist is warn­ing that any ex­o­dus of Venezue­lan from T&T would sig­nif­i­cant­ly hurt the econ­o­my.

Hav­ing record­ed an his­toric loss of $316 mil­lion for its half-year 2020, two char­tered ac­coun­tants have con­tend­ed that the re­al vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty lies with­in the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC ) of T&T cash flow.

Re­pub­lic Bank Lim­it­ed has do­nat­ed US$ 500,000 to the Trinidad and To­ba­go gov­ern­ment to help this coun­try in its fight against the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Mooni­lal is call­ing for a meet­ing of the Joint Se­lect Com­mit­tee on Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty to as­cer­tain what led im­mi­gra­tion of­fi­cials to de­port 27 Venezue­lan mi­grants who had a mat­ter be­fore the High Court.

A meat cut­ter for­mer­ly em­ployed by Massy Stores, who can not work af­ter slip­ping and falling on the job, is set to re­ceive a lit­tle over $250,000 in com­pen­sa­tion. 

A 27-year-old gar­den­er was grant­ed $75,000 bail when he ap­peared vir­tu­al­ly be­fore a Princes Town Mag­is­trate on Tues­day charged with sex­u­al pen­e­tra­tion of a mi­nor.

"The re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for the hu­man­i­tar­i­an cri­sis in Venezuela lies square­ly with the failed poli­cies and abus­es of the Maduro regime," US Am­bas­sador Joseph Mon­del­lo said yes­ter­day.

The Unit­ed Na­tions Hu­man Rights of­fice has called on Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Gov­ern­ment to safe­guard the hu­man rights of refugee and mi­grant chil­dren - and it says chil­dren should nev­er be forcibly de­port­ed.

A coali­tion of hu­man rights or­gan­i­sa­tions from across the re­gion have writ­ten to Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley, ask­ing that 16 mi­grant chil­dren who were re­cent­ly de­port­ed from T&T be­fore they re­turned be im­me­di­ate­ly re­unit­ed with their fam­i­lies here and grant­ed ac­cess to ap­ply for asy­lum.

A video now cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia of the group of Venezue­lan mi­grants de­tained short­ly af­ter they came ashore at Los Iros on Tues­day af­ter­noon, shows chil­dren and adults crowd­ed in­to one cell at a po­lice sta­tion.