Min­is­ter of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs, Sean Sobers, held dis­cus­sions ear­li­er to­day with Venezue­lan am­bas­sador, Ál­varo Sánchez Cordero. The meet­ing was deemed a cour­tesy call by the Min­istry of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs.

A 34-year-old fa­ther of five died af­ter his mo­tor­cy­cle slammed in­to con­crete bar­ri­ers along the high­way in La Brea on Mon­day night.

A Mt Hope man has ap­peared be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court charged with the mur­der of Don­ny Dick, which oc­curred on Ju­ly 14th, 2024.

A thick plume of Sa­ha­ran dust has pushed air qual­i­ty to un­healthy lev­els in Port of Spain, Point Lisas and San Fer­nan­do. 

Ten­sions in Los An­ge­les es­ca­lat­ed Sun­day night as thou­sands of pro­test­ers took to the streets in re­sponse to Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s de­ploy­ment of the Na­tion­al Guard, block­ing off a ma­jor free­way and set­ting self-dri­ving cars on fire as law en­force­ment used tear gas, rub­ber bul­lets and flash bangs to con­trol the crowd.

Pres­i­dent Ir­faan Ali says the open­ing of the new mul­ti-mil­lion Di­a­mond Re­gion­al Hos­pi­tal, will pro­vide health care ser­vices for more than 40,000 peo­ple along the East Bank cor­ri­dor.

A 19-year-old Mor­vant man is ex­pect­ed to be ques­tioned af­ter he was ar­rest­ed by po­lice while in­side the Mt Lam­bert home of an el­der­ly man on Sun­day af­ter­noon.

A 25-year-old Arou­ca man was lured in­to a rob­bery in San­ta Cruz, by a man he met on the Grindr app, ear­ly on Mon­day morn­ing.

A 62-year-old St James man was beat­en by ban­dits who tried to steal his car out­side his home on Sun­day night. 

Is­raeli forces seized a Gaza-bound aid boat and de­tained Gre­ta Thun­berg and oth­er ac­tivists who were on board ear­ly Mon­day, en­forc­ing a long­stand­ing block­ade of the Pales­tin­ian ter­ri­to­ry that has been tight­ened dur­ing the war with Hamas.

Two trop­i­cal storms gath­ered strength off Mex­i­co’s Pa­cif­ic Coast Mon­day, with one fore­cast to be­come a hur­ri­cane lat­er in the day, fore­cast­ers warned.

St Vin­cent and the Grenadines Prime Min­is­ter Dr Ralph Gon­salves has urged both Trinidad and To­ba­go and Venezuela to ex­er­cise re­straint and re­solve their dif­fer­ences peace­ful­ly and in line with in­ter­na­tion­al law.