Dis­graced fi­nancier Jef­frey Ep­stein wrote in a 2011 email that Don­ald Trump had “spent hours” at Ep­stein’s house with a vic­tim of sex traf­fick­ing and said in a sep­a­rate mes­sage years lat­er that Trump “knew about the girls,” ac­cord­ing to com­mu­ni­ca­tions re­leased Wednes­day.

Colom­bian Pres­i­dent Gus­ta­vo Petro or­dered his na­tion’s se­cu­ri­ty forces Tues­day to stop shar­ing in­tel­li­gence with the Unit­ed States, un­til the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion stops its strikes on sus­pect­ed drug traf­fick­ers in the Caribbean, as re­la­tions de­te­ri­o­rate be­tween the na­tions that were once close part­ners in the fight against drug traf­fick­ing.

For­mer Min­is­ter of Tourism, Cul­ture and the Arts Ran­dall Mitchell has cau­tioned against what he de­scribed as the “re­duc­tion” of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s cul­tur­al ex­pres­sion to mere “noise,” fol­low­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s an­nounce­ment of new mea­sures to curb noise pol­lu­tion, in­clud­ing a ban on all fetes at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has or­dered an im­me­di­ate stop to all fetes at the Bri­an Lara Sta­di­um, cit­ing per­sis­tent com­plaints from near­by res­i­dents about ex­ces­sive noise.

Cal­i­for­nia Gov­er­nor Gavin New­som is­sued a force­ful warn­ing about the state of Amer­i­can democ­ra­cy, say­ing the Unit­ed States is at risk of aban­don­ing long-stand­ing de­mo­c­ra­t­ic norms and le­gal process­es.

While many have wel­comed the Gov­ern­ment’s Re­vi­tal­i­sa­tion Blue­print, an am­bi­tious plan to trans­form T&T’s eco­nom­ic and in­fra­struc­tur­al land­scape, res­i­dents tucked away along King’s Wharf, San Fer­nan­do, are won­der­ing what’s re­al­ly in it for them. Many hope that Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials will meet with the rough­ly 100 res­i­dents face-to-face to ex­plain the project and hear their con­cerns.

Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) Com­man­der Dr Daryl Din­di­al says he an­tic­i­pates that the “10 per cent” wage ne­go­ti­a­tions with the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) will be­gin in the last week of No­vem­ber.

St Vin­cent and the Grenadines Prime Min­is­ter Dr Ralph Gon­salves says nei­ther he nor his fam­i­ly did any­thing wrong in ac­quir­ing homes on the mar­ket for sale from the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC).

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro is urg­ing cit­i­zens to ex­er­cise cau­tion when us­ing so­cial me­dia apps, par­tic­u­lar­ly Face­book and Grindr.

Beetham res­i­dents say they were fo­cused on help­ing, not steal­ing from vic­tims of an ac­ci­dent that oc­curred along the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route on Mon­day.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says there is no resur­gence of kid­nap­pings for ran­som, even with the kid­nap­ping and mur­der of Vish­nu Lal­la just last week­end.

Port-of-Spain will be safe lead­ing up to the busy Christ­mas sea­son, but that safe­ty may come with some in­con­ve­nience.