The As­so­ci­a­tion of Caribbean Me­dia Work­ers has joined the re­gion in mourn­ing the death of Jones P. Madeira.

The Down­town Own­ers and Mer­chants As­so­ci­a­tion (DO­MA) has ques­tioned the ef­fec­tive­ness of the State of Emer­gency (SOE) amid con­tin­u­ing mur­ders across Trinidad.

Min­is­ter of Agri­cul­ture, Fish­eries and Min­ing, Floyd Green is en­cour­ag­ing lo­cal farm­ers to re­turn to sug­ar­cane pro­duc­tion amid pos­i­tive growth sig­nals in the sec­tor.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Pub­lish­ers and Broad­cast­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTP­BA) has of­fered con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly of Jones P. Madeira, and to the me­dia fra­ter­ni­ty.

Since the flames erupt­ed in and around Los An­ge­les, scores of res­i­dents have re­turned to their still smoul­der­ing neigh­bour­hoods even as the threat of new fires per­sist­ed and the na­tion’s sec­ond-largest city re­mained un­set­tled. For some, it was a first look at the stag­ger­ing re­al­i­ty of what was lost as the re­gion of 13 mil­lion peo­ple grap­ples with the gar­gan­tu­an chal­lenge of over­com­ing the dis­as­ter and re­build­ing.

De­spite hav­ing to en­dure the ef­fects of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, Hillview Col­lege con­tin­ued its con­sec­u­tive reign of hav­ing schol­ar­ship win­ners since 1981, pro­duc­ing eight na­tion­al vic­tors last year.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the dis­cov­ery of a burnt body tied to a tree in Princes Town yes­ter­day, be­lieved to be that of miss­ing man Matthew Brodouille.

A 39-year-old man from San Fer­nan­do, ac­cused of be­head­ing a dog in pub­lic, will spend the next two weeks at the St Ann’s Psy­chi­atric Hos­pi­tal. 

Res­i­dents of Guat­a­pa­jaro Road, off Caratal Road, Cu­mu­to, and mem­bers of the le­gal fra­ter­ni­ty are shak­en by the mur­ders of an el­der­ly cou­ple in their qui­et farm­ing com­mu­ni­ty.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment MPs who didn’t sign the en­dorse­ment let­ter for En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young to suc­ceed Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley, have as­sured they will sign even­tu­al­ly—but they first want to hear the views from the gen­er­al coun­cil mem­bers on the se­lec­tion is­sue at the par­ty’s Bal­isi­er House, Port-of-Spain head­quar­ters to­day.

With calls for a spe­cial con­ven­tion of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) to set­tle the is­sue of who will be­come its next po­lit­i­cal leader, the par­ty’s con­sti­tu­tion gives the Gen­er­al Coun­cil, which meets to­day, that au­thor­i­ty.

Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Ari­ma Pen­ne­lope Beck­les says her com­mit­ment is to the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment.