One of the three can­di­dates who con­test­ed for lead­er­ship of the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) in yes­ter­day’s elec­tions, says the lack of bal­lot pa­pers at two polling sta­tions may have hurt his chances of win­ning. 

The Pa­tri­ot­ic Front has an­nounced sev­en more can­di­dates for the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tions.

The man held in con­nec­tion with the fa­tal stab­bing of 18-year-old na­tion­al youth box­er Prince Charles,  has been charged with mur­der.

Po­lice have iden­ti­fied the sus­pect who stabbed three Pe­nal Sec­ondary School stu­dents dur­ing a bazaar at Par­vati Girls’ Hin­du Col­lege in Debe on Sat­ur­day.

Less than a week af­ter Sea Lots res­i­dents ap­pealed for pro­tec­tion against re­peat­ed at­tacks and rob­beries, the calm achieved af­ter a peace deal was bro­kered re­mains in place with­in the Port-of-Spain com­mu­ni­ty.

Of­fi­cers of the Tu­na­puna Po­lice Sta­tion were alert­ed by the Tu­na­puna Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice of the dis­cov­ery at Pasea Street, St Au­gus­tine Cir­cu­lar on the evening of March 9.

The Route 2 Maxi Taxi As­so­ci­a­tion says it is trou­bled by con­di­tions at the San­gre Grande Maxi Hub on Brier­ley Street, San­gre Grande. As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Bren­ton Knight claims no one seems con­cerned about the dri­vers who use the hub and by ex­ten­sion the com­muters.

A bush fire at Farm Road Ex­ten­sion, St Joseph, sparked con­cern yes­ter­day, as thick plumes of smoke led many to be­lieve the blaze had erupt­ed at the near­by Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex in Mt Hope.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to the ab­duc­tion of a 37-year-old Lebanese man who was robbed and beat­en on Sun­day, be­fore be­ing re­leased by his ab­duc­tors in San­ta Cruz a short while lat­er.

A 43-year-old White­land res­i­dent was fined $4,000 for il­le­gal­ly hunt­ing an igua­na and lappe af­ter the clo­sure of the 2024 to 2025 Hunt­ing Sea­son on March 1.

The rel­a­tives of a miss­ing man are plead­ing for help in find­ing him. Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, An­tho­ny Hen­wood, the old­er broth­er of Mar­lon Hen­wood, said the 56-year-old was last seen alive on Car­ni­val Sat­ur­day morn­ing in San Fer­nan­do. It was al­leged that he was beat­en by strangers near a fast-food restau­rant.

Al­bert Ramdin, the 67-year-old For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter of Suri­name has been elect­ed as the new Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al of the Or­ga­ni­za­tion of Amer­i­can States (OAS).