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.

A 50-year-old su­per­vi­sor with the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA), was gunned down while dri­ving in Blan­chisseuse yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the dis­cov­ery of a full-term fe­male fe­tus at the Beetham land­fill on Mon­day af­ter­noon.

Venezue­lan's Min­is­ter of In­te­ri­or and Jus­tice, Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo, has dis­missed state­ments by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar on pos­si­ble threats of Venezue­lan mil­i­tary per­son­nel en­ter­ing T&T in pur­suit of al­leged ter­ror­ists.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) has is­sued a Yel­low Lev­el Ad­verse Weath­er Alert for Trinidad and To­ba­go, which comes in­to ef­fect at 2 am Tues­day June 10th, end­ing at 4 pm Wednes­day June 11th.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) has launched a trade mis­sion to Guyana and Suri­name, tak­ing place from June 9 to June 12.

Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has an­nounced the 15-mem­ber squad for the up­com­ing white-ball home se­ries against South Africa Women, set to take place in Bar­ba­dos. The se­ries, sched­uled for June 11 to 23, will fea­ture three One-Day In­ter­na­tion­als (ODIs) and three T20 In­ter­na­tion­als (T20Is).

The Min­istry of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment is seek­ing cit­i­zens’ feed­back on what they val­ue in na­ture, changes or is­sues in the en­vi­ron­ment they ob­served, ideas on how we can bet­ter care for our en­vi­ron­ment and ways dif­fer­ent sec­tors like gov­ern­ment, schools and busi­ness­es can help pro­tect Trinidad and To­ba­go’s bio­di­ver­si­ty re­sources.

The Min­istry of Works and In­fra­struc­ture has ap­point­ed a new Board of Di­rec­tors to lead the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed (UDe­COTT), with the of­fi­cial in­stal­la­tion tak­ing place on Mon­day.

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.