Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is giv­ing a firm as­sur­ance that Trinidad and To­ba­go will not be used by the US to launch any at­tacks against the peo­ple of Venezuela.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is wel­com­ing the po­ten­tial talks be­tween Unit­ed States Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump and Venezuela’s Nico­las Maduro. How­ev­er, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said that any di­a­logue must be ground­ed in hon­esty and trans­paren­cy, rather than in the “con­tin­u­ous de­fence or de­nial of wrong­do­ing.”

Mil­i­tary sources say the train­ing ex­er­cis­es be­tween the Unit­ed States Marines and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment will in­clude counter-ter­ror­ism strate­gies aimed at safe­guard­ing State as­sets from crim­i­nals.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says that as of yes­ter­day evening, no miss­ing per­sons re­ports had been filed for four Erin fish­er­men who are be­lieved to have been kid­napped in Venezue­lan wa­ters.

Rel­a­tives of Avanelle Abra­ham are strug­gling to come to terms with the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing her mur­der in Ch­agua­nas on Sun­day, while urg­ing the pub­lic to be more dis­cern­ing about the com­pa­ny they keep and the peo­ple they trust.

“Go back to your room,” Babi­ta Vial­va and her killer told her 19-year-old daugh­ter sec­onds be­fore gun­shots rang out yes­ter­day morn­ing in a shock­ing dou­ble mur­der in Pe­nal.

The Nurs­ing As­so­ci­a­tion has raised con­cerns over the gov­ern­ment’s plans to open the Cou­va Chil­dren’s Hos­pi­tal, warn­ing that the move could place ad­di­tion­al strain on the coun­try’s health­care sys­tem. The as­so­ci­a­tion, which has been ac­tive in health­care ad­vo­ca­cy for more than 15 years, called on pol­i­cy­mak­ers to pri­ori­tise staff re­ten­tion, pro­fes­sion­al train­ing, and pri­ma­ry health­care.

Pres­i­dent of Pan Trin­ba­go, Bev­er­ley Ram­sey-Moore, says the or­gan­i­sa­tion had to pro­vide fi­nan­cial sup­port to sev­er­al pan bands par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Sin­gle Pan com­pe­ti­tion, as the bands have not yet re­ceived gov­ern­ment fund­ing. The pre­lim­i­nar­ies be­gan on No­vem­ber 12.

Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen has warned that Trinidad and To­ba­go’s deeply root­ed cul­ture of dis­as­ter com­pla­cen­cy is now putting lives at risk, urg­ing cit­i­zens and state agen­cies to con­front a “new nor­mal” of un­pre­dictable cli­mate haz­ards threat­en­ing every com­mu­ni­ty.

A man from La Ro­maine has been sen­tenced to five years in prison with hard labour af­ter ad­mit­ting to be­ing in un­law­ful pos­ses­sion of two bul­lets. 

A Mt Hope man car­ried out a cit­i­zen’s ar­rest on Sun­day af­ter he man­aged to wres­tle away the gun from an armed in­trud­er and con­tact the po­lice while hold­ing the sus­pect, who is 46 years younger than him, at gun­point.

With the Christ­mas and Car­ni­val sea­sons ap­proach­ing, Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (Op­er­a­tions), Suzette Mar­tin, is as­sur­ing cit­i­zens that it is safe to shop and at­tend pub­lic events.