Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the theft of a ve­hi­cle and US cur­ren­cy in St Clair on Wednes­day night.

Search ef­forts con­tin­ue for a fish­ing pirogue that left To­ba­go ear­li­er this month for St Vin­cent and the Grenadines, but the Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard says there have been no con­firmed sight­ings of the ves­sel or its crew.

Po­lice are try­ing to iden­ti­fy a man who was struck and killed while cross­ing the Beetham High­way on Thurs­day morn­ing.

Caribbean Air­lines is lead­ing the way in test­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s new on­line im­mi­gra­tion and cus­toms plat­form ahead of its planned roll­out next week.

Four months af­ter their ar­rival in To­ba­go to in­stall a mil­i­tary-grade radar sys­tem at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in Crown Point, the US mil­i­tary main­tains a con­sis­tent pres­ence on the is­land.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says the coun­try will know more about those who are on a list of sus­pect­ed drug traf­fick­ers, com­piled by the Unit­ed States, soon.

The cost to shift the coun­try from the pa­per-based im­mi­gra­tion ar­rival and de­par­ture forms to a dig­i­tal plat­form re­mains un­known, as it re­lates to na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der is as­sur­ing that the au­thor­i­ties are in­ves­ti­gat­ing re­ports of bomb threats, the lat­est com­ing against a car­go plane that left the coun­try re­cent­ly.

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Faris Al-Rawi is ques­tion­ing why Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der ap­pears to be re­ly­ing on a list from the Unit­ed States to iden­ti­fy in­di­vid­u­als al­leged­ly in­volved in drug traf­fick­ing and or­gan­ised crime in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Op­po­si­tion chief whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les has writ­ten to House Speak­er Jagdeo Singh, ac­cus­ing the Gov­ern­ment of abus­ing par­lia­men­tary rules and in­fring­ing on the rights of the Op­po­si­tion, fol­low­ing a con­tentious in­ci­dent in the Low­er House last Fri­day that prompt­ed the Op­po­si­tion to walk out.

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor and for­mer For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs min­is­ter Dr Amery Browne has point­ed to emerg­ing cracks with­in the Gov­ern­ment’s stance on the Mid­dle East con­flict, not­ing that two mem­bers now ap­pear to be dis­tanc­ing them­selves from the ad­min­is­tra­tion’s po­si­tion sup­port­ing the Unit­ed States and Is­rael in the war with Iran.

The Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers Union (CWU) has promised to “bust more files” on the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed (TSTT) in the com­ing weeks, in or­der to es­ca­late scruti­ny amid al­le­ga­tions of fi­nan­cial mis­man­age­ment, po­lit­i­cal in­ter­fer­ence and poor treat­ment of work­ers.