A fire at an apart­ment build­ing in Port-of-Spain on Fri­day led to the deaths of two women and saw some ten­ants jump­ing sev­er­al feet down, re­sult­ing in bro­ken limbs in a bid to es­cape the flames.

For near­ly six years, Can­dice Ri­ley has been wait­ing for jus­tice af­ter trag­i­cal­ly los­ing her daugh­ter, Ashan­ti Ri­ley, al­leged­ly at the hands of a PH taxi dri­ver.

The Gov­ern­ment in­tends to pro­ceed with In­de­pen­dence Day cel­e­bra­tions, in­clud­ing the tra­di­tion­al pa­rade at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, de­spite the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE).

The Na­tion­al Joint Ac­tion Com­mit­tee (NJAC) has con­demned com­ments made by Laven­tille West MP Ka­reem Mar­celle dur­ing a Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) pub­lic meet­ing in his con­stituen­cy last Thurs­day, de­scrib­ing the re­marks as di­vi­sive and harm­ful to na­tion­al uni­ty.

Teach­ers and stu­dents of Spey­side Sec­ondary claim they are un­der siege and be­ing ter­rorised by a Form One stu­dent.

The fam­i­ly of a school­boy who was shot dead dur­ing a home in­va­sion in Mara­bel­la is now liv­ing in fear as po­lice in­ves­ti­gate the killing. Kr­is­han Khanai was gunned down at his fam­i­ly’s Tram­line Road home late Thurs­day night. Two rel­a­tives, Kr­ish­na Khanai and Leela Pariag, were al­so shot and wound­ed dur­ing the at­tack.

MP for Port-of-Spain North/St Ann’s West Stu­art Young chal­lenged Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der dur­ing the Stand­ing Fi­nance Com­mit­tee of Par­lia­ment last night over a pro­posed in­crease in po­lice over­time spend­ing, ques­tion­ing whether the fig­ure was jus­ti­fied and how it com­pared to salary costs.

While wel­com­ing news that Trinidad and To­ba­go is set to re­ceive 1.7 tril­lion cu­bic feet of nat­ur­al gas from Venezuela’s Lo­ran field, Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of the Amer­i­can Cham­ber of Com­merce of Trinidad and To­ba­go (AM­CHAM), Ni­rad Tewarie, warned that so­cial and po­lit­i­cal di­vi­sion could un­der­mine the coun­try’s abil­i­ty to ful­ly cap­i­talise on the op­por­tu­ni­ty.

Five peo­ple were ar­rest­ed and a firearm, am­mu­ni­tion and quan­ti­ties of cannabis, co­caine, metham­phet­a­mine and ec­sta­sy were seized dur­ing a se­ries of po­lice ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed across Trinidad on Fri­day.

Five peo­ple were ar­rest­ed and a firearm, am­mu­ni­tion and quan­ti­ties of cannabis, co­caine, metham­phet­a­mine and ec­sta­sy were seized dur­ing a se­ries of po­lice ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed across Trinidad on Fri­day.

Two men and a woman have been ar­rest­ed and are ex­pect­ed to be charged in con­nec­tion with two sep­a­rate home in­va­sions in San­gre Grande ear­ly on Thurs­day morn­ing.

Ac­cord­ing to fire of­fi­cials, they re­spond­ed to a fire at the Co­ehlo Build­ing along Prince Street be­tween Char­lotte and Nel­son Streets at around 9.30 pm on Fri­day night.