The Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Of­fice is­sued an alert for 6.15 pm to 7.45 pm to­day, warn­ing that a short lived band of strong wind with cloudi­ness and show­ers is ap­proach­ing the is­lands.

All li­cens­ing ser­vices across Trinidad and To­ba­go have been tem­porar­i­ly sus­pend­ed be­cause of a ma­jor tech­ni­cal mal­func­tion af­fect­ing crit­i­cal sys­tems, the Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion said to­day.

The on­go­ing mil­i­tary train­ing be­tween Unit­ed States Marines and the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force does not un­der­mine Trinidad and To­ba­go’s sov­er­eign­ty, says pres­i­dent of the Greater San Fer­nan­do Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce, Ki­ran Singh.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice says in­mate Ja­mal Joseph, who es­caped from the Car­rera Con­vict Prison on No­vem­ber 14, has been re­cap­tured af­ter a co­or­di­nat­ed re­sponse in­volv­ing po­lice of­fi­cers and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ex­pand­ed her Gov­ern­ment’s clam­p­down on noise pol­lu­tion, or­der­ing an im­me­di­ate halt to fetes at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um and the Jean Pierre Com­plex ex­cept dur­ing the de­fined Car­ni­val win­dow.

The Cen­tral Bank of Suri­name (CB­vS) says a team from the In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF) is on a vis­it to the Dutch-speak­ing Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) as part of an Ar­ti­cle IV mis­sion.

Is­raeli Prime Min­is­ter Ben­jamin Ne­tanyahu on Tues­day ap­plaud­ed the Unit­ed Na­tions’ ap­proval of the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion’s blue­print to se­cure and gov­ern Gaza, while Hamas re­ject­ed the plan as a for­eign in­stru­ment of con­trol.

Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro is ac­cus­ing the gov­ern­ment of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of act­ing be­hind the backs of T&T’s cit­i­zens and the mil­i­tary au­thor­i­ties to turn the coun­try in­to an “air­craft car­ri­er” against Venezuela.

The 25-year-old of Up­per St Barbs Road in Bel­mont was stand­ing in the back­yard where the gath­er­ing for a close rel­a­tive, was un­der­way around 3 pm on No­vem­ber 16, when gun­shots rang out.

A Ca­roni man was kid­napped by two men and tak­en to an un­known lo­ca­tion on Sun­day night, where he was beat­en and stabbed be­fore be­ing left for dead.

The Red Cross Chil­dren’s Car­ni­val Com­mit­tee hopes to cel­e­brate its 70th an­niver­sary in 2026 by rais­ing enough funds to pur­chase an am­bu­lance. The an­nu­al chil­dren’s car­ni­val is a ma­jor fundrais­ing ini­tia­tive, and chair­man Ronald Halfhide said the com­mit­tee must first se­cure an es­ti­mat­ed $500,000 to host next year’s pa­rade.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has warned that Trinidad and To­ba­go has be­come a soft tar­get should the Unit­ed States launch mil­i­tary ac­tion against Venezuela, ar­gu­ing that the coun­try’s off­shore gas plat­forms could be among the first as­sets placed at risk.