De­spite a new sal­vo of crit­i­cism from the Venezuela gov­ern­ment yes­ter­day, For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers is re­as­sur­ing the pub­lic that re­la­tions be­tween T&T and its neigh­bour re­main strong and sta­ble.

For­mer For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs min­is­ter Amery Browne has reached out to the min­istry to of­fer his help in set­tling the cur­rent diplo­mat­ic is­sue with Venezuela—but cur­rent For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers says it is not Browne’s place.

For­mer Rur­al De­vel­op­ment min­is­ter Faris Al-Rawi claims work­ers who dealt with the COVID-19 re­sponse in the re­gion­al health au­thor­i­ties and sev­er­al work­ers in the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al’s Min­istry are among the lat­est fac­ing job­less­ness due to the non-re­new­al of con­tracts.

Un­less the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al takes the mat­ter to the Privy Coun­cil, three Ap­peal Court judges yes­ter­day cleared the way for nine men freed of the mur­der of busi­ness­woman Vin­dra Naipaul-Cool­man to col­lect a $20 mil­lion pay­out.

Clin­i­cal ther­a­pist and trau­ma­tol­o­gist Dr Hanif Ben­jamin says it is “quite un­for­tu­nate” to hear school vi­o­lence and bul­ly­ing be­ing politi­cised, es­pe­cial­ly at a time when the is­sue is at such a crit­i­cal stage.

The Nurs­ing Coun­cil of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NCTT) plans to write Min­is­ter of Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion, Prakash Per­sad, call­ing for a meet­ing dis­cuss is­sues raised by nurs­ing stu­dents at the Col­lege of Sci­ence, Tech­nol­o­gy and Ap­plied Arts (Costaatt).

Fa­ther of five Kezie Blondell al­ways loved cars, mo­tor­cy­cles and rac­ing. Trag­i­cal­ly, less than a year af­ter he be­gan rid­ing, he lost his life af­ter his mo­tor­cy­cle crashed along the high­way in La Brea on Sun­day night. Thir­ty-four-year-old Blondell, a me­chan­ic and life­guard, was the on­ly bread­win­ner in his fam­i­ly.

It was an­oth­er dusty day for T&T yes­ter­day as a thick plume of Sa­ha­ran dust, an un­wel­come vis­i­tor from across the At­lantic, en­veloped the na­tion, prompt­ing the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) to is­sue a press re­lease warn­ing of “un­healthy” air qual­i­ty.

The San Juan Fire Sta­tion, which is one of the busiest and most cru­cial in T&T, has been shut down in­def­i­nite­ly af­ter a sec­tion of the ceil­ing col­lapsed and struck a fire of­fi­cer last week.

Al­most a year has passed since PC Shakala Charles re­cit­ed what he thought was his fi­nal prayer as he bled out on a street in east Port-of-Spain.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Health Rishad Seecher­an says the Gov­ern­ment will be rolling out sev­er­al ini­tia­tives to tack­le non-com­mu­ni­ca­ble dis­eases (NCDs), in­clud­ing warn­ing la­bels on un­healthy foods, aimed at pre­ven­tion, ear­ly de­tec­tion, and man­age­ment.

A 45-year-old Williamsville man es­caped un­harmed af­ter his home and car were fire­bombed on Sun­day night.