The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress is de­mand­ing that Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo re­lease the con­tents of the Com­mis­sion of En­quiry (CoE) re­port in­to the Paria div­ing tragedy. But adding a com­plex lay­er to the is­sue, Sen­a­tor Anil Roberts yes­ter­day claimed there was a sin­is­ter and clan­des­tine link be­tween the deaths of the four men and the 2020 vis­it to this coun­try of Venezue­lan Vice Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­driguez.

As the school term nears its end, al­ter­ca­tions erupt­ed in three sep­a­rate schools this week, cul­mi­nat­ing in the most re­cent in­ci­dent near Princes Town West Sec­ondary, where a Form Five stu­dent was stabbed on Thurs­day.

The moth­er of four-year-old Amir Williams, who was wound­ed dur­ing an at­tack in which his fa­ther died, says he is in pain but grad­u­al­ly re­cov­er­ing.

While they seek to re­solve on­go­ing wage ne­go­ti­a­tions for em­ploy­ees, the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) said yes­ter­day that salary in­creas­es re­quire per­mis­sion from the high­est lev­el of their or­gan­i­sa­tion.

For­mer Di­rec­tor of the Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO), Dr Caris­sa Eti­enne, has passed away.

The di­rec­tor of the HIV/AIDS Co­or­di­nat­ing Unit of the Min­istry of Health, Dr Is­shad John, says there have been im­prove­ments on the rate of HIV in­fec­tions for the past five to ten years in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Over 2,000 re­ports of sex­u­al abuse of girls and 500 re­ports of sex­u­al abuse of boys were made to the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty be­tween 2020 and 2021.

On the first day of COP28, the Unit­ed Na­tions cli­mate talks in Dubai, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates, the World Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Or­gan­i­sa­tion said it was vir­tu­al­ly cer­tain that 2023 will be the warmest year on record”.

Ac­claimed mas­man and event pro­duc­er Bri­an Mac Far­lane has crit­i­cised po­lit­i­cal lead­ers for their lack of in­ter­est in the peo­ple of this coun­try.

For­mer di­rec­tor of the Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO), Dr Caris­sa Eti­enne has passed away. PA­HO con­firmed the news in a me­dia re­lease this morn­ing.

A Va­len­cia man was grant­ed $500,000 bail with sure­ty and was or­dered to ap­pear be­fore a mag­is­trate to an­swer to two counts of ut­ter­ing a forged valu­able se­cu­ri­ty and at­tempt­ing to ob­tain mon­ey by false pre­tence.

Cen­tral Di­vi­sion of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed one man and seized a quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise yes­ter­day.