With po­lice un­able to gath­er enough ev­i­dence to bring charges in the al­leged bul­ly­ing-re­lat­ed death of St Stephen’s Col­lege stu­dent Jay­den Lalchan, his fam­i­ly is now grap­pling with an in­ten­si­fied sense of grief.

A 35-year-old man is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a High Court Mas­ter to­day charged with the mur­der of Po­lice Con­sta­ble Kr­ish­na Ba­na­har.   

Two of T&T’s most re­spect­ed econ­o­mists, for­mer min­is­ter of fi­nance Wen­dell Mot­t­ley and for­mer Cen­tral Bank gov­er­nor Eu­ric Bobb, are call­ing for a re­turn of the man­aged flota­tion of the TT dol­lar that was first in­tro­duced in April 1993.

Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has ac­cused state-owned HDC, which falls un­der Hous­ing Min­is­ter Camille Robin­son-Reg­is, of re­ceiv­ing a po­lit­i­cal di­rec­tive to evict cus­tomers sup­port­ing can­di­dates seek­ing lead­er­ship change in the PNM.

Dur­ing a UNC town hall meet­ing at the Na­pari­ma Au­di­to­ri­um on Mon­day evening, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said while a gen­er­al elec­tion will not be held on De­cem­ber 9, a de­ci­sion on a pos­si­ble De­cem­ber 16 elec­tion date could be made by next week­end.

A war of words has erupt­ed be­tween the PNM’s nom­i­nee for Ch­agua­nas East, Richie Sookhai, and the present MP for the area, the UNC’s Van­dana Mo­hit over the rep­re­sen­ta­tion con­stituents have been re­ceiv­ing.

Chaos erupt­ed at a spe­cial statu­to­ry meet­ing of the Siparia Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion on Mon­day as of­fi­cials launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to miss­ing ma­te­ri­als from a cor­po­ra­tion stock­pile.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly will cut over­seas trav­el ex­pens­es as part of a broad­er ini­tia­tive to make nec­es­sary “sac­ri­fices” in or­der to man­age bud­get con­straints.

Flood­wa­ters surged across the Pe­nal/Debe re­gion yes­ter­day, prompt­ing lo­cal au­thor­i­ties to de­clare a dis­as­ter zone as re­lent­less rain­fall sub­merged roads, left res­i­dents strand­ed, and forced stu­dents to scram­ble for emer­gency trans­porta­tion.

Res­i­dents of sev­er­al ar­eas in T&T were tak­en by sur­prise yes­ter­day as freak storms and heavy rains wreaked hav­oc in a num­ber of com­mu­ni­ties, top­pling trees, rip­ping off roofs, and caus­ing se­vere flood­ing.

Ne­go­ti­a­tions be­gan in earnest yes­ter­day fol­low­ing a de­layed adop­tion of the agen­da at the Unit­ed Na­tions Cli­mate Change Con­fer­ence (COP29) tak­ing place in Baku, Azer­bai­jan.

A po­lice of­fi­cer as­signed to the In­ter-Agency Task Force and liv­ing at Green­vale, La Hor­quet­ta, was forced to open fire on two men as they at­tempt­ed to steal his car yes­ter­day morn­ing.