In­ter­na­tion­al Re­la­tions ex­pert Dr An­tho­ny Gon­za­les has reaf­firmed calls for T&T's Gov­ern­ment to re­main neu­tral af­ter the Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nico­las Maduro has of­fi­cial­ly been de­clared a mem­ber of a For­eign Ter­ror­ist Or­gan­i­sa­tion (FTO).

The Unit­ed States Em­bassy said Chair­man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine will vis­it Trinidad and To­ba­go to­mor­row to meet Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

Jim­my Cliff, the charis­mat­ic reg­gae pi­o­neer and ac­tor who preached joy, de­fi­ance and re­silience in such clas­sics as “Many Rivers to Cross,” “You Can Get it If You Re­al­ly Want” and “Viet­nam” and starred in the land­mark movie “The Hard­er They Come,” has died at 81.

Two el­der­ly men were beat­en and robbed by ban­dits in sep­a­rate in­ci­dents, hours apart on Sun­day.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has ex­tend­ed her con­do­lences fol­low­ing the death of Siparia Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion Coun­cil­lor Romona Vic­tor and her hus­band Rod­ney Ram­sumair, whose lives were lost in what po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing as a sus­pect­ed mur­der–sui­cide.

The CARI­COM Pri­vate Sec­tor Or­gan­i­sa­tion (CP­SO) says it wel­comes the de­ci­sion of the Unit­ed States to re­move tar­iffs on key Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) ex­port sec­tors, say­ing it will bring “im­por­tant re­lief” to re­gion­al in­dus­tries that had been neg­a­tive­ly af­fect­ed by the rec­i­p­ro­cal tar­iffs im­ple­ment­ed ear­li­er this year.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s ad­min­is­tra­tion is set to ramp up pres­sure on Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro on Mon­day by des­ig­nat­ing the Car­tel de los Soles as a for­eign ter­ror­ist or­gan­i­sa­tion. But the en­ti­ty that the U.S. gov­ern­ment al­leges is led by Maduro is not a car­tel per se.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she is deeply sad­dened by the death of Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress coun­cil­lor Romona Vic­tor, adding that the tragedy re­in­forces the im­por­tance of reach­ing out for help.

Leader of Gov­ern­ment Busi­ness in the House, Bar­ry Padarath, says the Prime Min­is­ter stood up for her­self and oth­ers when she told Op­po­si­tion MP Colm Im­bert, “I’ll cuff you down.”

House Speak­er Nizam Mo­hammed is call­ing on par­lia­men­tar­i­ans to show more deco­rum while en­gag­ing in ban­ter dur­ing de­bates. 

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) coun­cil­lor Romona Vic­tor and her hus­band, Rod­ney Ram­sumair, were found dead in their Siparia home yes­ter­day, in what po­lice sus­pect may have been a mur­der-sui­cide.

An ex­ten­sive mul­ti-agency res­cue op­er­a­tion was un­der­way in the Lala­ja South Road area, off the Ari­ma–Blan­chisseuse Road last evening, af­ter 40-year-old Faiyyad Ho­sein, of Tabaquite Road, Rio Claro, suf­fered a frac­tured right fe­mur while rap­pelling down a se­ries of wa­ter­falls ear­li­er yes­ter­day.