Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump on Thurs­day fired his em­bat­tled Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Sec­re­tary Kristi Noem, af­ter mount­ing crit­i­cism over her lead­er­ship of the de­part­ment, in­clud­ing the han­dling of the ad­min­is­tra­tion’s im­mi­gra­tion crack­down and dis­as­ter re­sponse.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has re­port­ed a tem­po­rary re­duc­tion in wa­ter pro­duc­tion at the De­sali­na­tion Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go (DE­SAL­COTT) fa­cil­i­ty due to re­cent changes in the qual­i­ty of the raw sea­wa­ter en­ter­ing the plant.

UE­FA still plans for Qatar to stage the Ar­genti­na vs. Spain game known as Fi­nalis­si­ma this month even as the emi­rate is tar­get­ed by Iran­ian mis­siles in the widen­ing Mid­dle East war start­ed by Is­rael and the Unit­ed States.

The Unit­ed States Em­bassy in Port of Spain has ad­vised US cit­i­zens in Trinidad and To­ba­go to ex­pect in­creased se­cu­ri­ty ac­tiv­i­ty fol­low­ing the de­c­la­ra­tion of a na­tion­wide State of Emer­gency.

A stern warn­ing has come from Act­ing Di­vi­sion­al Fire Of­fi­cer Ansar Ali for peo­ple to re­frain from light­ing fires to clear agri­cul­tur­al lands af­ter an­oth­er bush fire erupt­ed along Rivulet Road in Cou­va, near the Point Lisas in­dus­tri­al re­gion.

Dwight Yorke's tenure as Trinidad and To­ba­go se­nior men's foot­ball head coach has come to an end. This was con­firmed via a Trinidad and To­ba­go Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion me­dia re­lease on Thurs­day af­ter­noon, which stat­ed that Yorke's con­tract was ter­mi­nat­ed by mu­tu­al agree­ment af­ter dis­cus­sions were held be­tween the TTFA and Yorke re­gard­ing the fu­ture of the role, in­clud­ing re­vised con­trac­tu­al terms and re­mu­ner­a­tion aligned to the next phase of the pro­gramme. .

A 23-year-old Arou­ca man was ar­rest­ed yes­ter­day for im­per­son­at­ing a po­lice of­fi­cer, ac­cord­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice.

The St. Lu­cia gov­ern­ment Thurs­day con­firmed that it had for­mal­ly re­ceived com­mu­ni­ca­tion from the Unit­ed King­dom gov­ern­ment ad­vis­ing that a visa re­quire­ment will be in­tro­duced for its na­tion­als trav­el­ling to the Unit­ed King­dom.

A 55-year-old woman has been iden­ti­fied as the pedes­tri­an killed af­ter be­ing struck by a ve­hi­cle along the east­bound car­riage­way of the Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way near the Tumpuna Road in­ter­sec­tion yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath says while progress has been made in re­duc­ing dis­rup­tions out­side the class­room, trou­bling new da­ta shows be­hav­iour­al is­sues are in­creas­ing­ly oc­cur­ring dur­ing in­struc­tion­al time.

Po­lit­i­cal bac­cha­nal erupt­ed at the Siparia Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion yes­ter­day, af­ter Deputy May­or Shankar Teelucks­ingh was es­cort­ed out of the cham­ber by po­lice dur­ing a Pub­lic Health Com­mit­tee meet­ing.

Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) lec­tur­er and vlog­ger Rho­da Bharath says she is go­ing to be “savvy” in her so­cial me­dia posts as the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tion al­lows for those pre­sum­ably caus­ing pub­lic dis­cord to be de­tained.