One sus­pect was ar­rest­ed and three firearms and quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion seized dur­ing Op­er­a­tion Se­cure D’ Vibes ex­er­cis­es this week.

Chair­man of the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NGC), Ger­ald Ramdeen, says the state-owned nat­ur­al gas ag­gre­ga­tor is ne­go­ti­at­ing high­er prices with its down­stream cus­tomers and ex­pects to con­clude those agree­ments with­in the next month.

ST GEORGE’S – In a cap­ti­vat­ing con­test at the Na­tion­al Sta­di­um in Grena­da on Fri­day, Sri Lan­ka Women’s spin­ners or­ches­trat­ed the telling blow to help their side to seal a nar­row 10-run vic­to­ry over the West In­dies Women in the first One Day In­ter­na­tion­al, tak­ing a 1-0 lead in the three-match se­ries.

Is­hana Edgar, an 18-year-old sec­ond-year Busi­ness Man­age­ment stu­dent at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the South­ern Caribbean, walked away with the pres­ti­gious ti­tle of Miss Cen­tral Trinidad when the Cou­va Car­ni­val Com­mit­tee (CCC) staged its mar­quee event at the Cou­va Car­ni­val Cen­tre on Sat­ur­day.

The seabridge be­tween Port-of-Spain and To­ba­go is a vi­tal eco­nom­ic life­line and when car­go move­ment fal­ters, the con­se­quences rip­ple through su­per­mar­kets, hard­ware stores, ho­tels and house­holds across the is­land.