A fu­ner­al home has been or­dered to pay over $800,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a for­mer em­ploy­ee, who se­ri­ous­ly in­jured his back while lift­ing heavy bod­ies sev­er­al years ago. 

Of­fi­cers of the Re­gion I Homi­cide Bu­reau have re­ceived in­struc­tions from the DPP to charge a 61-year-old Ch­agua­nas man with var­i­ous of­fences, in­clud­ing mur­der and wound­ing, af­ter a shoot­ing in St James on Car­ni­val Tues­day af­ter­noon.

Two men were ar­rest­ed and po­lice seized quan­ti­ties of nar­cotics and a weapon in the North East­ern and South­ern Di­vi­sions over the past 24 hours.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) is ad­vis­ing their cus­tomers in parts of North-East Trinidad, served by the Hol­lis Wa­ter Treat­ment Plant that there will be an in­ter­rup­tion in wa­ter sup­ply on March 12 be­tween the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 12: 00 noon.

Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots leader Wat­son Duke is cau­tion­ing Prime Min­is­ter-des­ig­nate Stu­art Young not to get ahead of him­self, re­mind­ing him that he has yet to be of­fi­cial­ly ap­point­ed.

Amid a flur­ry of res­ig­na­tions with­in her par­ty, Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is urg­ing sup­port­ers not to be fooled by trai­tors of the UNC who have switched al­le­giance to the PNM in the lead-up to the gen­er­al elec­tions.

Guyana's Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion, Priya Man­ickc­hand, says the new­ly launched Guyana Dig­i­tal School in­tro­duces an in­no­v­a­tive plat­form de­signed to en­sure stu­dents coun­try­wide ex­cel at their ex­am­i­na­tions.

For­mer Philip­pine Pres­i­dent Ro­dri­go Duterte was ar­rest­ed Tues­day on a war­rant from the In­ter­na­tion­al Crim­i­nal Court ac­cus­ing him of crimes against hu­man­i­ty over dead­ly an­ti-drugs crack­downs he over­saw while in of­fice, the Philip­pine gov­ern­ment said.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has chal­lenged Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley to re­veal the names of those al­leged­ly en­cour­ag­ing the Unit­ed States to re­voke visas and im­pose sanc­tions on Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has come out in de­fence of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s sov­er­eign­ty fol­low­ing the re­cent threat of US visa re­stric­tions an­nounced by Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion against gov­ern­ments util­is­ing Cu­ba’s over­seas med­ical mis­sions. The pro­gramme, which has been vi­tal to health­care sys­tems across the re­gion for decades, has been de­scribed in a re­port by the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion as con­sti­tut­ing “forced labour” and a form of “hu­man traf­fick­ing”.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has hit back at the Op­po­si­tion Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) and urged the pop­u­la­tion to turn their at­ten­tion on Op­po­si­tion mem­bers who are bent on the down­fall of the Drag­on gas deal with Venezuela.

Res­i­dents were yes­ter­day thank­ful that no one was killed af­ter a ten-wheel­er truck crashed in­to two hous­es in Guaracara af­ter the brakes re­port­ed­ly failed.