An ur­gent call has been made to par­ents, as well as teach­ers, to pay close at­ten­tion to the be­hav­iour­al pat­terns and emo­tion­al changes of the chil­dren in their care.

A mighty Hur­ri­cane Mil­ton is fling­ing rain and winds at the Tam­pa Bay area Wednes­day on its steady and po­ten­tial­ly cat­a­stroph­ic march to­ward the west coast of Flori­da, where of­fi­cials sound­ed ur­gent warn­ings for res­i­dents to evac­u­ate or face grim odds of sur­vival.

Prime Min­is­ter of St Vin­cent and The Grenadines (SVG), Dr Ralph Gon­salves, said Wednes­day that there was no ev­i­dence on Tues­day of the above-nor­mal tem­per­a­tures con­tin­u­ing at La Soufriere vol­cano, two days af­ter it was de­tect­ed by a NASA satel­lite.

The cen­tre of Hur­ri­cane Mil­ton is cur­rent­ly 240 kilo­me­tres south­west of Tam­pa, Flori­da, with max­i­mum sus­tained winds of 215km/h, mak­ing it a Cat­e­go­ry 4 Hur­ri­cane.

Po­lice of­fi­cers res­cued 11 fe­male Venezue­lan na­tion­als dur­ing an op­er­a­tion on Tues­day, the TTPS has con­firmed.

Two streets in Monte Grande, St Au­gus­tine, have been re­named af­ter promi­nent at­tor­ney Is­rael B Ra­jah-Khan, SC, by the Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion.

Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of in­cur­ring mil­lions of dol­lars in cost over­runs on state projects, claim­ing their ef­forts to cut the ini­tial es­ti­mate costs set by the for­mer Peo­ple’s Part­ner­ship (PP) ad­min­is­tra­tion have back­fired.

Dr. Rai Rag­bir, Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Cu­mu­to/Man­zanil­la and “shad­ow” Min­is­ter of Health, has called for the ur­gent im­ple­men­ta­tion of a na­tion­al al­co­hol pol­i­cy to tack­le the rise of binge drink­ing and al­co­holism in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

More than 12 mil­lion peo­ple in the state of Flori­da are fac­ing the threat of tor­na­does along with hail and wind, the Na­tion­al Weath­er Ser­vice has said.

The man who was killed at a mi­ni-mart in Cunu­pia yes­ter­day has been iden­ti­fied as De­nesh Lal.

Hu­man rights groups are call­ing on the Ja­maican gov­ern­ment to heed the call from the Unit­ed Na­tions Refugee Agency to sus­pend the forced de­por­ta­tion of il­le­gal Hait­ian mi­grants.

Hur­ri­cane Mil­ton churned Wednes­day to­ward a po­ten­tial­ly cat­a­stroph­ic col­li­sion along the west coast of Flori­da, where some res­i­dents in­sist­ed they would stay af­ter mil­lions were or­dered to evac­u­ate and of­fi­cials warned that strag­glers would face grim odds of sur­viv­ing.