Head of the Repa­tri­a­tion Com­mit­tee, Nizam Mo­hammed, says ef­forts to re­turn ap­prox­i­mate­ly 100 cit­i­zens from refugee camps in war-torn Syr­ia and sur­round­ing states are not yet ready, as they re­quire more in­for­ma­tion on the per­sons in­volved.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley wants cit­i­zens to mo­bilise and fo­cus their col­lec­tive ef­forts and hopes for a bet­ter T&T. To do oth­er­wise is to be haunt­ed by eth­nic ghosts and per­pet­u­ate the agen­das of those who re­fused to see hope but on­ly fear, racial di­vi­sive­ness, ha­tred, bit­ter­ness, un­rest, and dis­sen­sion.

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo says T&T has ben­e­fit­ted from the sac­ri­fices of in­den­tured East In­di­an labour­ers who de­cid­ed to make this coun­try their home.

Ca­roni East MP Dr Rishad Seecher­an wants Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rence Deyals­ingh to en­sure that a ‘thor­ough and time-bound re­view be con­duct­ed to en­sure there is no re­cur­rence of these gross fail­ures in the Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ties.”

This coun­try’s first pri­vate­ly-run neona­tal in­ten­sive care unit (NICU) aims to sup­port the pub­lic sys­tem. Housed at San­ji­vani Women’s Hos­pi­tal in St Au­gus­tine, the Lev­el 2 NICU pro­vides care to “short-stay” ba­bies for four and five days.

Ahead of the elec­tion of the Pres­i­dent of the 78th ses­sion of the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly (UN­GA) lat­er this week, Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Dr Amery Browne asked mem­bers of the diplo­mat­ic corp to sup­port T&T’s can­di­date for the post.

Pres­i­dent Joe Biden laud­ed the sac­ri­fice of gen­er­a­tions of U.S. troops who “dared all and gave all” fight­ing for their coun­try and called on Amer­i­cans to en­sure their “sac­ri­fice was not in vain” in Memo­r­i­al Day ob­ser­vances at Ar­ling­ton Na­tion­al Ceme­tery.

Two-year-old Umar Ali has been found and is un­der­go­ing med­ical treat­ment at the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal at this time. The child’s moth­er, Adee­ba con­firmed to the Guardian Me­dia that she was con­tact­ed by the po­lice and told that her child has been found and in hos­pi­tal. “We are now go­ing there so we don’t have any de­tails as yet,” Adee­ba’s broth­er, Habib said.

Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, Fitzger­ald Hinds, re­ceived a do­na­tion of Vis­it, Board, Search and Seizure (VB­SS) Kit and Equip­ment, as well as Con­sum­ables for Cap­i­tal As­sets of the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force (TTDF), from the Unit­ed Na­tions Of­fice on Drugs and Crime (UN­ODC) work­ing in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Gov­ern­ment of Cana­da.

The Prime Min­is­ter said the con­tri­bu­tions of the East In­di­ans in this coun­try could be iden­ti­fied vis­i­bly in med­i­cine, law, the sci­ences, en­gi­neer­ing, lit­er­a­ture, arts, man­u­fac­tur­ing, in the suc­cess­ful fam­i­ly busi­ness­es in the ser­vices sec­tor, and in the high­est lev­els of pub­lic ser­vice.

A judge sen­tenced for­mer El Sal­vador Pres­i­dent Mauri­cio Fu­nes to 14 years in prison Mon­day for ne­go­ti­at­ing with gangs dur­ing his ad­min­is­tra­tion.

A 36-year-old San­gre Grande man who plead­ed guilty to a gun pos­ses­sion charge this morn­ing was fined $15,000 by a San­gre Grande Mag­is­trate.