A Sun­day evening lime end­ed in tragedy for res­i­dents of Kat­wa­roo Trace when 52-year-old Sunil Sankar drowned in a Petrotrin pond in Pe­nal.

A 35-year-old watch­man, who ad­mit­ted rap­ing his eight-year-old sis­ter 11 times over a three-year pe­ri­od when he was a teenag­er, has been sen­tenced to al­most nine years in prison.

Days af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley an­nounced the es­tab­lish­ment of a Caribbean Gangs Data­base, re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty ex­pert Garvin Heer­ah has said a Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tion (CBI) is al­so need­ed to com­bat transna­tion­al crime.

The Ju­di­cia­ry is be­ing called up­on to find al­ter­na­tive ac­com­mo­da­tions to re­sume phys­i­cal civ­il and crim­i­nal tri­als in south Trinidad.

Dri­ving schools across T&T will soon op­er­ate un­der reg­u­la­tions for the first time, ac­cord­ing to Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan.

Pedes­tri­ans and mo­torists in Port-of-Spain were alarmed this morn­ing af­ter one man stabbed an­oth­er man fol­low­ing an ar­gu­ment on the street.

A San­ta Cruz res­i­dent won the NL­CB Lot­to Plus $5m Jack­pot af­ter years of play­ing twice a week, he said. 

The Unit­ed Na­tions Pop­u­la­tion Fund (UNF­PA) says it has re­ceived on­ly 19 per cent of the re­quest­ed US$28 mil­lion in in­ter­na­tion­al aid to deal with the gen­der-based vi­o­lence in Haiti.

Work­ers who clean air­planes, re­move trash and help with wheel­chairs at Char­lotte’s air­port, one of the na­tion’s busiest, went on strike Mon­day dur­ing a busy week of Thanks­giv­ing trav­el to de­mand high­er wages.

NGC Green marked World Chil­dren’s Day 2024 by do­nat­ing 350 reusable san­i­tary nap­kins to chil­dren’s homes and care or­ga­ni­za­tions across T&T.

The M.V. Cabo Star could be back in ser­vice to­mor­row, Tues­day 26 No­vem­ber 2024, by which time on­go­ing main­te­nance works should be com­plete, an ad­vi­so­ry from the Trinidad and To­ba­go In­ter-Is­land Trans­porta­tion Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (TTIT) says.

The Min­istry of Health is re­port­ing that there are 2,004 lab­o­ra­to­ry-con­firmed cas­es of dengue fever and 19 lab­o­ra­to­ry-con­firmed deaths.