Haiti con­tin­ues to wal­low in deep cri­sis as crim­i­nal gangs en­trench their vi­o­lent con­trol over near­ly 90 per cent of Port-au-Prince and oth­er parts of the coun­try. These armed groups have be­come a de fac­to regime of ter­ror.

Or­ange no-en­try signs post­ed by the U.S. mil­i­tary in Eng­lish and Span­ish dot the New Mex­i­co desert, where a bor­der wall cuts past onion fields and parched ranch­es with tufts of tall grass grow­ing amidst wiry brush and yuc­ca trees.

In­dia Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Mo­di has told mem­bers of the In­di­an di­as­po­ra here that they will soon be el­i­gi­ble for Over­seas Cit­i­zen­ship of In­dia (OCI), as he praised the strong cul­tur­al and his­toric ties be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and In­dia.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ex­pressed her grat­i­tude to In­dia Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Mo­di for the com­pas­sion he demon­strat­ed to­wards Trinidad and To­ba­go and oth­er small na­tions dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

The Gov­ern­ment has re­spond­ed to con­cerns raised by Mus­lim groups about In­dia Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Mo­di’s vis­it to T&T, by say­ing that it is com­mit­ted to the prin­ci­ples of equal­i­ty and re­spect while ful­fill­ing its diplo­mat­ic en­gage­ments.

Pope Leo XIV has ap­point­ed Arch­bish­op Ja­son Gor­don a mem­ber of the Di­cas­t­ery for In­ter­re­li­gious Di­a­logue.

Ap­prox­i­mate­ly 25 Port of Port-of-Spain work­ers who downed tools last week have re­turned to work. The mat­ter was tem­porar­i­ly re­solved af­ter dis­cus­sions with Sea­men and Wa­ter­front Work­ers’ Trade Union (SWW­TU) pres­i­dent gen­er­al Michael An­nisette, who al­so serves as chair­man of Port and Mar­itime Ser­vices Lim­it­ed (PM­SL), the com­pa­ny to which the work­ers are con­tract­ed.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young, SC, is lead­ing the le­gal team for fired Cen­tral Bank gov­er­nor Dr Alvin Hi­laire.

With hun­dreds of cit­i­zens anx­ious­ly await­ing news on po­ten­tial re-em­ploy­ment at the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP), the Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter says the new board of the com­pa­ny will be an­nounced next week.

At least one dis­missed Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) con­trac­tor has threat­ened to sue the com­pa­ny for wrong­ful ter­mi­na­tion.

In­dia’s Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Mo­di touched down at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port yes­ter­day af­ter­noon to a grand, colour­ful and cer­e­mo­ni­al wel­come, mark­ing the start of his his­toric two-day vis­it to Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has made good on his promise to be­gin re­view­ing Firearm Users Li­cence (FUL) ap­pli­ca­tions, hav­ing com­plet­ed the first batch of files which had been piled atop his desk at the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing, Port-of-Spain.