T&T sprint­er Jereem Richards has ad­vanced to Thurs­day's men's 400 me­tres fi­nal at the World Ath­let­ics Cham­pi­onships in Tokyo, Japan as one of the two fastest losers out of the three se­mi-fi­nal heats.

Deputy Prime Min­is­ter of St Lu­cia, Dr. Ernest Hi­laire, is call­ing on the pri­vate sec­tor to fol­low the ex­am­ple of the gov­ern­ment and pro­vide their work­ers with a bonus at Christ­mas time.

The Is­raeli mil­i­tary be­gan a ground of­fen­sive tar­get­ing Gaza City on Tues­day, slow­ly squeez­ing in on the Pales­tin­ian ter­ri­to­ry’s largest city that has seen block af­ter block al­ready de­stroyed in the Is­rael-Hamas war. Res­i­dents still in the city were warned they must leave and head south.

The re­cent killing of US con­ser­v­a­tive po­lit­i­cal ac­tivist Char­lie Kirk has stirred re­ac­tions across the po­lit­i­cal spec­trum. But for those cel­e­brat­ing his death on­line, the Unit­ed States is mak­ing it clear: they are not wel­come in the coun­try.

A re­as­sign­ment of ex­ec­u­tive port­fo­lios by Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro yes­ter­day sent shock­waves through­out the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), leav­ing both se­nior and ju­nior of­fi­cers stunned by the ac­tion.

The stu­dent in­volved in the fight with a teacher at the Ari­ma North Gov­ern­ment Sec­ondary School is now in an af­ter-school pro­gramme run by the po­lice.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she is “not con­cerned” about com­ments by Venezuela’s Pres­i­dent Nico­las Maduro, say­ing, “the US has nev­er re­quest­ed any ac­cess to our ter­ri­to­ry for any mil­i­tary ac­tion against Venezuela.”

US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump says the Unit­ed States has car­ried out an­oth­er at­tack on a nar­co-boat in the Caribbean, killing three peo­ple he de­scribed as “ter­ror­ists.”

In­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions ex­pert Dr An­tho­ny Gon­za­les has urged the Gov­ern­ment to tread care­ful­ly as ten­sions rise be­tween the Unit­ed States and Venezuela, warn­ing that Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s stance could ex­pose the coun­try to re­tal­i­a­tion.

Mo­torists and com­muters yes­ter­day spent as many as four hours in grid­lock traf­fic in and around the cap­i­tal city, af­ter heavy rains led to flood­ing which left sev­er­al main streets like Wright­son Road and In­de­pen­dence Square un­der three feet of wa­ter.

Sev­er­al ar­eas in South Trinidad ex­pe­ri­enced flash flood­ing on Mon­day fol­low­ing heavy show­ers, leav­ing many peo­ple strand­ed and forc­ing res­i­dents to clean slush, mud and wa­ter from their prop­er­ties.

The Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion is in­ten­si­fy­ing its na­tion­al road safe­ty agen­da fol­low­ing a string of week­end fa­tal­i­ties, with Min­is­ter Eli Za­k­our urg­ing all road users to take per­son­al re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to pre­vent fur­ther loss of life.