Fam­i­ly and friends are ral­ly­ing around the chil­dren of Ra­jku­mar Pope as they strug­gle to come to terms with his sud­den and vi­o­lent death, which came just hours af­ter he cel­e­brat­ed his daugh­ter’s com­ple­tion of the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA).

Le­gal ac­tion is ad­vanc­ing against Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny and Land and Ma­rine Con­tract­ing Ser­vices (LM­CS), de­spite the Gov­ern­ment’s $1 mil­lion ex gra­tia pay­ment to four fam­i­lies of the Paria div­ing tragedy, with some rel­a­tives pur­su­ing fur­ther com­pen­sa­tion.

Two po­lice of­fi­cers are fac­ing crim­i­nal charges af­ter al­leged­ly ar­rest­ing a mo­torist and de­mand­ing cash in ex­change for his re­lease dur­ing an in­ci­dent along the Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way.

Haiti’s gov­ern­ment an­nounced new aus­ter­i­ty mea­sures on Tues­day as the war in Iran dis­rupts crit­i­cal oil sup­plies and dri­ves up prices world­wide.

Po­lice said the body was dis­cov­ered par­tial­ly sub­merged in a mud­dy stream. The man was bare­back and clad on­ly in grey pants and shoes.

Forty-four un­doc­u­ment­ed im­mi­grants were de­tained dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise by the South­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force on Sun­day.

A St James fam­i­ly is griev­ing the loss of one of its youngest mem­bers af­ter an ear­ly morn­ing shoot­ing in Dun­don­ald Hill.

Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) in­dus­tri­al re­la­tions of­fi­cer Leti­tia Stephens says the cur­rent sick­out ac­tion by nurs­es could be end­ed if man­age­ment at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC) in Mt Hope meets with and speaks re­spect­ful­ly with nurs­es.

For­mer med­ical di­rec­tor and cur­rent di­rec­tor of the South-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty, Dr Anand Cha­toor­goon, is urg­ing nurs­es to re­flect on com­pas­sion and du­ty amid an on­go­ing im­passe be­tween the Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) and the re­gion­al health au­thor­i­ties.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Trans­paren­cy In­sti­tute (TT­TI) is call­ing on Gov­ern­ment to im­me­di­ate­ly pri­ori­tise cam­paign fi­nance re­form leg­is­la­tion.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says he is not in sup­port of a re­port­ed pro­pos­al by Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) to re­move the sub­sidy on the air­bridge.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has im­plored the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) to bet­ter safe­guard its in­fra­struc­ture.