For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers says Trinidad and To­ba­go’s suc­cess­ful elec­tion to a non-per­ma­nent seat on the Unit­ed Na­tions Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil demon­strates the strength of the coun­try’s re­la­tion­ship with Cari­com, de­spite re­cent diplo­mat­ic dis­agree­ments over its gov­er­nance and the reap­point­ment of Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett.

Al­most two months af­ter a so­cial me­dia video prompt­ed the res­cue and a po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to an al­le­ga­tion that Sabi­ta Bas­deo was false­ly im­pris­oned and suf­fered abuse dur­ing that time, three peo­ple have been charged with a se­ries of of­fences in re­la­tion to the case.

A road­side ven­dor op­er­at­ing at En­deav­our, Ch­agua­nas, has been ar­rest­ed and charged, af­ter ad­mit­ting to sell­ing sacks of pota­toes he re­trieved from the Clax­ton Bay land­fill. 

Ro­man Catholic Arch­bish­op Ja­son Gor­don is call­ing on Trinidad and To­ba­go to un­der­go a trans­for­ma­tion of the heart, urg­ing cit­i­zens to move be­yond ma­te­ri­al­ism, self­ish­ness and di­vi­sion.

An­gli­can Arch­bish­op of the West In­dies, Philip Wright, has stressed that a heal­ing church ex­tends be­yond its walls and reach­es peo­ple and com­mu­ni­ties grap­pling with so­cial ills, in­clud­ing pover­ty, ad­dic­tion and oth­er hard­ships.

A dev­as­tat­ing blaze in Up­per Leon Hill, Bel­mont, has left 65-year-old res­i­dent Yvonne Arnold and her fam­i­ly home­less af­ter their two-storey home was com­plete­ly de­stroyed on Wednes­day af­ter­noon.

Af­ter cit­i­zens have been sub­ject­ed to an oner­ous State of Emer­gency for 12 of the past 14 months, democ­ra­cy in T&T is un­der threat from Gov­ern­ment’s des­ig­na­tion of 15 “no-protest” zones, in­clud­ing near the Par­lia­ment, says for­mer Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) min­is­ter Vas­ant Bharath

One year has passed since Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar last faced jour­nal­ists at a post-Cab­i­net me­dia brief­ing.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is ex­pect­ed to de­liv­er a state­ment in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives to­day, when the Sec­ond Ses­sion of the Par­lia­ment’s five-year term be­gins at 1.30 pm.

An ear­ly morn­ing fire yes­ter­day de­stroyed the old wood­en Min­istry of Health build­ing lo­cat­ed on the site of the for­mer Ch­agua­nas Health Cen­tre, a struc­ture that had stood for more than 50 years.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s re­silience to dis­as­ters de­pends not on­ly on stronger in­fra­struc­ture but al­so on chang­ing the be­hav­iours that con­tin­ue to make com­mu­ni­ties vul­ner­a­ble to flood­ing and oth­er haz­ards.

A High Court judge has re­ject­ed a po­si­tion by the Eco In­dus­tri­al De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny of To­ba­go (E-ID­COT) that it is ex­empt from the Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Act (FOIA).