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

The Peo­ple’s Re­pub­lic of Chi­na has as­sured Caribbean coun­tries that there is no hid­den agen­da in seek­ing part­ner­ships with re­gion­al coun­tries, promis­ing mu­tu­al ben­e­fit and re­spect.

Two men were each sen­tenced to 12 months’ hard labour by a Mas­ter of the High Court, af­ter they were charged with house break­ing and lar­ce­ny.

One man has been ar­rest­ed, and firearms along with a quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion were seized dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es in the Port of Spain Di­vi­sion on Thurs­day night.

The son of a Mex­i­can drug car­tel boss has been sen­tenced to life in prison for his own lead­er­ship role in one of the coun­try’s largest and most vi­o­lent nar­cotics traf­fick­ing or­ga­ni­za­tions.

The Ba­hamas gov­ern­ment Fri­day said of­fi­cials from the SpaceX are due here fol­low­ing Thurs­day night’s ex­plo­sion of a SpaceX’s Star­ship rock­et with de­bris falling in­to Ba­hami­an air­space.

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.