Unit­ed States air­craft were in­volved in a low pass fly over of George­town, the cap­i­tal, as Pres­i­dent Ir­faan Ali was be­ing sworn in­to of­fice on Sun­day for a sec­ond con­sec­u­tive five year term.

Leader of the Op­po­si­tion, Pen­ne­lope Beck­les re­ceived a cour­tesy call from Her Ex­cel­len­cy Dr. Lin­da Sobeh Ali, Am­bas­sador of the State of Pales­tine to Trinidad and To­ba­go, on Fri­day at the Of­fice of the Leader of the Op­po­si­tion.

As thou­sands of chil­dren re­turn to class­rooms for the new aca­d­e­m­ic year, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar high­light­ed the gov­ern­ment’s ef­forts to make schools safe and dig­i­tal­ly equipped, co­in­cid­ing with the Unit­ed Na­tions’ In­ter­na­tion­al Lit­er­a­cy Day.

The Hunters Search and Res­cue Team con­firmed to­day that po­lice res­cued pi­lot Daniel Kawall in the Mar­aval dis­trict.

A team from the For­eign Af­fairs Min­istry is cur­rent­ly rep­re­sent­ing T&T in Ethiopia at the Sec­ond Africa-Cari­com Sum­mit, whose theme fo­cus­es on part­ner­ships in pur­suit of repa­ra­tions for peo­ple of African de­scent.

Con­flict­ing ac­counts have emerged over the ar­rest of ten men out­side the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre (ECRC) in San­ta Rosa yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Prison su­per­vi­sor Garth Gua­da has been qui­et­ly re­moved from the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre (ECRC) and placed un­der De­fence Force cus­tody at Teteron Bar­racks, Ch­aguara­mas, af­ter State of Emer­gency (SoE) de­ten­tion or­ders al­leged he con­tin­ued to fa­cil­i­tate gang ac­tiv­i­ty while be­hind bars.

A ran­som de­mand has been re­ceived for the safe re­lease of miss­ing Caribbean Air­lines pi­lot Daniel Kawall.

The new school term has opened un­der the shad­ow of for­eign ex­change short­ages, with lo­cal book­sellers warn­ing that lim­it­ed ac­cess to US dol­lars is leav­ing fam­i­lies strug­gling to se­cure text­books.

In a week of mount­ing crit­i­cism at home and abroad, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar told Hin­du devo­tees that one must have “bel­ly” to stand against in­jus­tice.

The Pub­lic Trans­port Ser­vice Cor­po­ra­tion (PTSC) has ground­ed the dri­ver in­volved in a fa­tal ac­ci­dent in Port-of-Spain, pend­ing the out­come of on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

Ch­agua­nas May­or Faaiq Mo­hammed has ap­pealed to the Gov­ern­ment to pro­vide greater sup­port for cul­tur­al cel­e­bra­tions in the bor­ough, high­light­ing their role in fos­ter­ing com­mu­ni­ty uni­ty and en­gag­ing youth.