Chi­na’s new am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go, Ren Hongyan, host­ed his first of­fi­cial event on Wednes­day, to com­mem­o­rate the 80th an­niver­sary of the vic­to­ry in the Chi­nese Peo­ple’s War of Re­sis­tance Against Japan­ese Ag­gres­sion and the World An­ti-Fas­cist War.

Dr Lin­da Sobeh Ali, Am­bas­sador Des­ig­nate of the State of Pales­tine to Trinidad and To­ba­go, pre­sent­ed her cre­den­tials to Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo to­day at The Pres­i­dent’s House.

Mem­bers of the Ma­yaro/Rio Claro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion have now been paid af­ter con­cerns were raised over salary de­lays.

Amid crit­i­cism of the U.S. mil­i­tary’s han­dling of its strike on an al­leged drug-car­ry­ing ves­sel on Tues­day, the De­fence Min­is­ter said the North Amer­i­can na­tion is free to con­duct its ‘war’ as it sees fit.

The Unit­ed States and Pana­ma are urg­ing the UN Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil to au­tho­rize a 5,550-mem­ber force with the pow­er to de­tain gang mem­bers in Haiti, to help stop the es­ca­lat­ing vi­o­lence.

Caribbean Air­lines has tem­porar­i­ly sus­pend­ed flights be­tween Trinidad and Cara­cas, Venezuela, for the month of Sep­tem­ber.

U.S. Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio said Thurs­day that the Unit­ed States is des­ig­nat­ing two Ecuado­ri­an gangs as for­eign ter­ror­ist or­ga­ni­za­tions in the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion’s lat­est move against car­tels.

Venezuela's Jus­tice Min­is­ter Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo is deny­ing U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s claim that the U.S. mil­i­tary de­stroyed a Venezue­lan ves­sel with drugs that could have been on its way to this coun­try.

Por­tuguese of­fi­cials fo­cused Thurs­day on es­tab­lish­ing the caus­es of the crash of a Lis­bon street­car pop­u­lar with tourists that killed 16 peo­ple and in­jured 21, five of them se­ri­ous­ly.

The Ital­ian fash­ion de­sign­er and bil­lion­aire brand own­er Gior­gio Ar­mani has died at the age of 91.

Grena­da has be­come the lat­est share­hold­er coun­try of CAF – De­vel­op­ment Bank of Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean. The gov­ern­ment con­firmed that it has com­plet­ed the process to join the in­sti­tu­tion as a Se­ries C share­hold­er.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) an­nounced a tem­po­rary road clo­sure on Ed­ward Street, Port of Spain, af­ter a fire dam­aged a large tree, leav­ing it un­sta­ble and un­safe.