Le­Bron James will not be back with the Los An­ge­les Lak­ers and plans to play a record-ex­tend­ing 24th NBA sea­son else­where.

A di­vid­ed U.S. Supreme Court on Tues­day up­held a broad con­cep­tion of birthright cit­i­zen­ship, re­ject­ing Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s ex­ec­u­tive or­der de­clar­ing that chil­dren born to peo­ple who are in the Unit­ed States il­le­gal­ly or tem­porar­i­ly are not Amer­i­can cit­i­zens.

Aid groups warned Tues­day that Venezuela’s frag­ile health­care sys­tem is be­ing pushed to its lim­its near­ly a week af­ter two pow­er­ful earth­quakes, with dam­aged and un­der­staffed hos­pi­tals over­whelmed by the in­jured and de­te­ri­o­rat­ing con­di­tions in the dis­as­ter zone caus­ing in­fec­tious dis­eases to spread.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is ap­peal­ing to the pub­lic for as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing 16-year-old Tia Ram­sey, who was re­port­ed miss­ing on Mon­day.

Em­ploy­ees of bot­tled wa­ter man­u­fac­tur­er Blue Wa­ters Lim­it­ed were yes­ter­day as­sured that op­er­a­tions re­main un­af­fect­ed and their jobs se­cure, fol­low­ing a com­pa­ny-wide meet­ing con­vened by man­age­ment amid on­go­ing con­cerns sur­round­ing the de­ten­tion of the com­pa­ny’s own­er, Do­minic Hadeed.

Al­though the Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) for busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve are yet to be gazetted, in­for­ma­tion con­tin­ues to emerge on the con­tribut­ing fac­tors that led to their ar­rest.

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve were yes­ter­day giv­en a day to analyse po­lice records re­lat­ed to the duo’s ar­rests and de­ten­tion for an al­leged mur­der con­spir­a­cy, to de­ter­mine whether they will pro­ceed with lit­i­ga­tion over the is­sue.

Sev­en al­leged gang­sters, in­clud­ing a gang leader, were or­dered to be de­tained at two fa­cil­i­ties in Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders gazetted yes­ter­day.

The Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC) is ex­pect­ing to give its re­port on Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro soon, says chair­man Dr Wen­dell Wal­lace.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) deputy leader San­jiv Bood­hu has rub­bished Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der’s in­sis­tence that there is no po­lit­i­cal in­ter­fer­ence in the is­suance of Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs), ac­cus­ing him of mis­un­der­stand­ing the very reg­u­la­tions that gov­ern the cur­rent State of Emer­gency (SoE).

The British High Com­mis­sion is stand­ing by the find­ings con­tained in its Coun­try Pol­i­cy and In­for­ma­tion Note (CPIN) on Trinidad and To­ba­go, which es­ti­mat­ed that 186 gangs were op­er­at­ing in this coun­try in 2023.

Deputy Speak­er of the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Dr Aiy­na Ali has urged grad­u­at­ing stu­dents of San Fer­nan­do TML Pri­ma­ry School to safe­guard their men­tal health and be­lieve in them­selves, es­pe­cial­ly dur­ing mo­ments of self-doubt, as they pre­pare to tran­si­tion to sec­ondary school.