A day at the beach yes­ter­day turned trag­ic for a group of friends from Ari­ma, when 35-year-old An­drew Cur­tis Clarke went miss­ing in the sea at Pen­zante Bay, Ba­lan­dra.

The Min­istry of Health is warn­ing the pub­lic, af­ter 300 vials of fen­tanyl were re­port­ed miss­ing fol­low­ing a de­liv­ery dis­crep­an­cy to a pub­lic health fa­cil­i­ty.

While for­mer prime min­is­ter and ex-en­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of tak­ing full cred­it for the pro­duc­tion-shar­ing con­tract (PSC) with Exxon­Mo­bil, the Prime Min­is­ter ap­peared un­fazed.

Caribbean Ex­am­i­na­tions Coun­cil (CXC) re­sults are set to be re­leased to­day along with in­for­ma­tion about the per­for­mance of stu­dent by top of­fi­cials in the Cay­man Is­lands.

Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties, Bar­ry Padarath, met with Deryck Richard­son, Pres­i­dent of the Es­tate Po­lice As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (EPA), to ad­dress is­sues raised by the EPA on be­half of its mem­bers.

A for­mer Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme Com­pa­ny (Cepep) con­trac­tor has ap­pealed a de­ci­sion of a judge to stay its law­suit over the re­cent ter­mi­na­tion of it and over 300 oth­er con­trac­tors.

Nicholas Pooran has been ap­point­ed cap­tain of the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers for the up­com­ing CPL sea­son.

While the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP) in Trinidad is in tran­si­tion while be­ing re­struc­tured, To­ba­go's URP con­tin­ues on the job with projects - the lat­est be­ing a "facelift" for the area lead­ing to Pi­geon Point Beach in time for Sat­ur­day's an­nu­al Great Race event.

A taxi dri­ver was shot dur­ing a hold-up in Pe­nal on Wednes­day morn­ing, but quick ac­tion by se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cers led to the ar­rest of two Venezue­lan na­tion­als min­utes lat­er.

U.K. Prime Min­is­ter Keir Starmer wel­comed Ukrain­ian Pres­i­dent Volodymyr Ze­len­skyy to Lon­don on Thurs­day in a show of British sup­port for Ukraine a day be­fore a crit­i­cal U.S.-Rus­sia sum­mit is set to take place in Alas­ka.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the theft of col­lectible trad­ing cards and oth­er items from a parked car in down­town Port of Spain on Tues­day morn­ing.

A marked pri­vate se­cu­ri­ty ve­hi­cle was stolen at gun­point in east Port of Spain ear­ly on Thurs­day.