Of­fi­cers from the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force swift­ly re­cov­ered a stolen ve­hi­cle just min­utes af­ter a rob­bery in Arou­ca on Wednes­day.

One sus­pect has been ar­rest­ed, and two firearms, am­mu­ni­tion, and a sig­nif­i­cant quan­ti­ty of cannabis were seized as po­lice in­ten­si­fied op­er­a­tions across the coun­try un­der the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE).

Chair­man of the Pe­nal/Debe Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (PDRC) Gow­tam Ma­haraj says re­pair­ing land­slips at In­dars­ingh Dri­ve, Di­a­mond Vil­lage, will not be easy and will re­quire mil­lions of dol­lars. He said the slip­page orig­i­nates from Pa­pourie Road, which falls un­der the purview of the Min­istry of Works.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) is call­ing for ad­di­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty at the San Juan North Sec­ondary School, af­ter a fire broke out in a class­room on Wednes­day.

A To­ba­go man is fight­ing for his life at the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, suf­fer­ing from first-de­gree burns, af­ter be­ing found on fire on Tues­day. Be­cause of his crit­i­cal con­di­tion, po­lice said he was un­able to tell them who or what set him ablaze.

Fire­fight­ers are bat­tling to con­trol a se­ries of ma­jor fires in the Los An­ge­les area that have killed five peo­ple, rav­aged com­mu­ni­ties from the Pa­cif­ic Coast to Pasade­na and forced over 180,000 peo­ple to flee their homes.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) has con­firmed that a per­son pic­tured in a vi­ral so­cial me­dia post is an ac­tu­al em­ploy­ee of the com­pa­ny.

Of­fi­cers of the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force quick­ly re­cov­ered a stolen ve­hi­cle min­utes af­ter a rob­bery in Arou­ca yes­ter­day.

Jim­my Carter, the 39th U.S. Pres­i­dent, was ho­n­oured with the pageantry of a state fu­ner­al in the na­tion’s cap­i­tal. He will lat­er be ho­n­oured a sec­ond ser­vice and bur­ial in his tiny Geor­gia home­town that launched a De­pres­sion-era farm boy to the world stage.

A Miss­ing Per­sons Alert has been ac­ti­vat­ed for 16-year-old DES­TINY MATTHEWS of East­ern Main Road in Tacarigua, who was re­port­ed miss­ing yes­ter­day (Jan­u­ary 8, 2025).

The Chair­man of the Princes Town Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (PTRC) is ap­peal­ing ur­gent­ly to the Min­is­ter of Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment and the Min­is­ter of Fi­nance for clar­i­fi­ca­tion on when the funds col­lect­ed from prop­er­ty tax­es would be al­lo­cat­ed to the Princes Town Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion.

Class­es con­tin­ue as nor­mal to­day at the San Juan North Sec­ondary School af­ter a fire ig­nit­ed in one of the class­rooms on Block C on Wednes­day.