Pres­i­dent of the As­so­ci­a­tion of Fu­ner­al Pro­fes­sion­als of Trinidad and To­ba­go, Kei­th Bel­grove, says there are a lot of hor­ror sto­ries com­ing out of the fu­ner­al in­dus­try, which the Gov­ern­ment has to pay clos­er at­ten­tion to.

Just five days be­fore An­gel­i­ca Saydee Jo­gie would have turned eight years old, hun­dreds gath­ered—not to cel­e­brate her birth­day, but to bid farewell to a child who was re­mem­bered as be­ing full of warmth and love.

The woman who was mur­dered on Fri­day night at Bal­moral Park, Ed­in­burgh 500, Ch­agua­nas, was re­port­ed­ly lured to the home of her boyfriend af­ter re­ceiv­ing a call that he had been shot.

The fa­tal shoot­ing of a 30-year-old labour­er by po­lice in Moru­ga on Fri­day has sparked calls from his fam­i­ly for a thor­ough in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the in­ci­dent.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar came in­to of­fice promis­ing 20,000 homes in two years on the cam­paign trail and as part of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) 2025 man­i­festo.

The long­ing for a home is at the heart of a scheme be­ing per­pet­u­at­ed by peo­ple pre­tend­ing to be pub­lic of­fi­cers in­side the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC).

The do­mes­tic de­par­ture lounge at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port will be per­ma­nent­ly closed from April 24.

Prime Min­is­ter of Ja­maica, Dr An­drew Hol­ness, has called for a meet­ing of re­gion­al lead­ers to ad­dress con­cerns sur­round­ing the reap­point­ment of Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al, Dr Car­la Bar­nett, say­ing dis­cus­sions are al­ready tak­ing place be­hind the scenes.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les says she has re­quest­ed re­ports from Sen­a­tors Janelle John-Bates and Faris Al-Rawi and will de­ter­mine their fu­ture as Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) sen­a­tors af­ter re­view­ing the in­for­ma­tion.

A spe­cial re­port of the Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ap­pro­pri­a­tions Com­mit­tee (PAAC) on Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment Sen­a­tor (PNM) Janelle John-Bates has rec­om­mend­ed that con­sid­er­a­tion be giv­en to her con­duct in both Hous­es.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has con­demned what it de­scribes as a “brazen” wave of crim­i­nal van­dal­ism and theft tar­get­ing its in­fra­struc­ture, fol­low­ing in­ci­dents at sev­er­al lo­ca­tions in south Trinidad.

Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­ing As­so­ci­a­tion, Idi Stu­art, says a new pol­i­cy es­tab­lish­ing a six-to-one pa­tient-to-nurse ra­tio will take ef­fect on April 28.