PNM Prime Min­is­ter-des­ig­nate Stu­art Young is vow­ing to en­force tougher penal­ties for do­mes­tic vi­o­lence, pledg­ing im­me­di­ate ac­tion to strength­en pro­tec­tions for women once he takes of­fice.

A busi­ness­man and a farmer were ar­rest­ed fol­low­ing a ma­jor drug bust in Bon Ac­cord on Thurs­day af­ter­noon.

The Black Rock Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School host­ed its 10th an­nu­al walkathon this morn­ing un­der the theme Be a Bet­ter You, part­ner­ing with res­i­dents and par­ents to en­cour­age pos­i­tive change in the com­mu­ni­ty.

UNC al­der­man Vic­tor Roberts is de­mand­ing a full au­dit of the par­ty’s fi­nances over the past decade and has giv­en the UNC un­til April 30 to dis­close the de­tails.

Ten­sions re­mained high in Sea Lots last evening, as a group of young men con­tin­ued their vi­o­lent at­tacks against each oth­er, as well as law-abid­ing res­i­dents, de­spite the fact that the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice was in the com­mu­ni­ty try­ing to me­di­ate for a peace­ful res­o­lu­tion.

The Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment is poised to launch its gen­er­al elec­tion cam­paign with the planned pre­sen­ta­tion of its can­di­dates at Wood­ford Square, Port-of-Spain, on Sun­day (March 16), when Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley's res­ig­na­tion will be con­firmed - and a gen­er­al elec­tion date is ex­pect­ed soon af­ter.

Kel­lon Beard cried yes­ter­day, as he re­called feel­ing aban­doned by his fa­ther, who turned away from him as he was be­ing at­tacked by a group of young men on Mon­day while walk­ing to his home at Sea Lots West.

The fam­i­ly of a prison of­fi­cer is liv­ing in fear fol­low­ing a dead­ly rob­bery at their home on Car­ni­val Mon­day in which the of­fi­cer’s fa­ther was shot in the head and killed. 

A one-and-a-half-year-old girl suf­fered a frac­tured skull af­ter she fell 11 feet off a ban­nis­ter while at her babysit­ter’s home in San Fer­nan­do.

Em­bat­tled Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher will have to wait un­til at least next month to learn the fate of her law­suit against the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC) over its de­ci­sion to sus­pend her pend­ing the out­come of a crim­i­nal probe.

When it comes to the tran­si­tion of gov­er­nance in Trinidad and To­ba­go, there’s been no short­age of con­tro­ver­sy, whether it’s be­ing ap­point­ed prime min­is­ter due to the death of a sit­ting leader, or through a snap elec­tion, the cit­i­zens of T&T have seen it all. Or have we?

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the par­ty will not be desta­bilised by peo­ple who have since turned their backs on it in “or­ches­trat­ed res­ig­na­tions.”