Sev­er­al chil­dren, in­clud­ing a one-year-old child born in the Unit­ed States, were among the lat­est batch of Haitians de­port­ed from the Unit­ed States on Thurs­day to the French-speak­ing Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) coun­try.

Haiti’s Na­tion­al Po­lice faced mount­ing crit­i­cism Thurs­day over why au­thor­i­ties failed to pre­vent a re­cent gang at­tack in which 47 peo­ple were killed and more than 50 kid­napped.

Res­cuers pulled out sur­vivors caked in dark brown mud and he­li­copters lift­ed strand­ed peo­ple to safe­ty Fri­day, as Nepal and Chi­na raced to re­spond to cat­a­stroph­ic flash floods that killed near­ly 600 peo­ple and left al­most 2,500 miss­ing.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice (TTPrS) has in­ter­cept­ed a pack­age con­tain­ing mar­i­jua­na and oth­er pro­hib­it­ed items thrown over the wall of the Port of Spain Prison.

Con­struc­tion of three new army-po­lice posts in To­ba­go is sched­uled to be­gin this week­end, the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) has an­nounced.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has sig­nalled that there are no plans to ex­pel San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning, de­spite his pub­lic al­le­ga­tions of cor­rup­tion and crim­i­nal­i­ty with­in the par­ty and crit­i­cism that she has been un­able or un­will­ing to deal with the mat­ter.

San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning says the con­stituen­cy is en­ter­ing a “new day” fol­low­ing a cor­dial meet­ing with Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les, and he is pre­dict­ing an “over­whelm­ing vic­to­ry” for his moth­er, for­mer ed­u­ca­tion min­is­ter Hazel Man­ning, in the up­com­ing con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive elec­tion.

Work­ers af­fect­ed by the ter­mi­na­tion of To­ba­go’s ten-on, ten-off em­ploy­ment pro­gramme are warn­ing that the move could con­tribute to ris­ing crime on the is­land.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has re­moved two di­rec­tors from the board of the Na­tion­al Main­te­nance Train­ing and Se­cu­ri­ty Com­pa­ny Ltd (MTS), say­ing they were not ful­fill­ing their man­date and lacked the lev­el of com­mit­ment need­ed to help ad­dress long­stand­ing prob­lems at the State com­pa­ny.

Op­po­si­tion MP and for­mer pub­lic util­i­ties min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les is call­ing for the re­moval of his suc­ces­sor, Bar­ry Padarath and the board and ex­ec­u­tive man­age­ment of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA), ac­cus­ing the au­thor­i­ty of qui­et­ly in­creas­ing some plumb­ing in­spec­torate fees by as much as 700 per cent with­out in­form­ing the pub­lic.

The Op­po­si­tion is call­ing on Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo to de­mand an­swers from the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC) over its fail­ure to rec­om­mend an act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) while Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro was out of the coun­try.

A for­mer sol­dier and na­tion­al foot­baller has been ac­quit­ted of kid­nap­ping, false­ly im­pris­on­ing and rap­ing his ex-girl­friend near­ly two decades ago.