An­dre Rus­sell will make a re­turn to the West In­dies T20 squad af­ter sus­tain­ing an in­jury dur­ing the first match of last year’s se­ries against Eng­land in Bar­ba­dos but has on­ly been se­lect­ed for the Eng­land leg of the tour.

As U.S. de­por­ta­tions ramp up un­der the cur­rent Trump-ad­min­is­tra­tion, se­cu­ri­ty ex­pert Garvin Heer­ah warns that T&T risks a so­cial cri­sis with­out a clear rein­te­gra­tion frame­work for de­por­tees.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Pro­mot­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPA) has dis­tanced it­self from the or­gan­is­ers of the con­tro­ver­sial One Caribbean Mu­sic Fes­ti­val and is now call­ing for sweep­ing leg­isla­tive re­form in the en­ter­tain­ment and tourism sec­tors, la­belling the cur­rent mo­ment “piv­otal”.

The US Con­sulate in T&T says the tem­po­rary op­er­a­tional pause in new ap­pli­ca­tions for U.S. stu­dent visas (F-1, M1 and J-1) for T&T na­tion­als is a “short op­er­a­tional pause and does not sig­ni­fy a change in US stu­dent visa pol­i­cy” to­wards this coun­try.

Four years af­ter a boat car­ry­ing 14 de­com­posed bod­ies drift­ed ashore in Belle Gar­den, To­ba­go, the fam­i­ly of the on­ly man for­mal­ly iden­ti­fied says they’ve made peace with the tragedy.

As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice and head of the Cen­tral-South Po­lice Di­vi­sion Wayne Mys­tar says el­der­ly peo­ple are be­ing tar­get­ed for home in­va­sions, and he is urg­ing cit­i­zens to pay more at­ten­tion to their vul­ner­a­ble rel­a­tives.

Lam­beau fish­er­man Ed­win Ramkissoon says he lost every­thing in last year’s oil spill—his boat, en­gine, and gear—but re­ceived the same com­pen­sa­tion as fish­er­men who were bare­ly af­fect­ed.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) To­ba­go Coun­cil has closed nom­i­na­tions in eight elec­toral dis­tricts, with 21 in­di­vid­u­als fil­ing to con­test the up­com­ing To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tions un­der the par­ty’s ban­ner.

A man who was shot dur­ing an at­tempt­ed home in­va­sion in Carn­bee, To­ba­go, stunned po­lice by call­ing them for help—then con­fess­ing to the crime while be­ing treat­ed at the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is ex­pect­ed to file her nom­i­na­tion pa­pers lat­er this af­ter­noon, for the role of Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM).

A move by the Pub­lic Trans­port Ser­vice Cor­po­ra­tion (PTSC) to im­ple­ment a $15,000 li­cens­ing fee for ex­cur­sion bus own­ers has been ruled to be un­law­ful.

The po­ten­tial for fu­ture col­lab­o­ra­tion in this coun­try’s down­stream gas in­dus­try was part of dis­cus­sions re­cent­ly be­tween high lev­el of­fi­cials from the Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries and Methanex Trinidad Lim­it­ed.