Po­lice have launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion fol­low­ing the grim dis­cov­ery of skele­tal re­mains by a crab catch­er in Fish­ing Pond, via San­gre Grande, on Wednes­day.

Ris­ing star Yung Bred­da, 25, en­ters the com­pe­ti­tion as a crowd favourite af­ter top­ping the semi­fi­nals. He now goes up against reign­ing monarch Machel Mon­tano, a sea­soned per­former known for his dom­i­nance in the mu­sic in­dus­try.

A lit­tle more than two weeks away from re­tir­ing and amid ru­mours about the na­ture of his fi­nal for­eign trip as Prime Min­is­ter, Dr Kei­th Row­ley with a gen­uine, beam­ing smile held his wife, Sharon Row­ley, close­ly in a pic­ture he shared on his Face­book page yes­ter­day.

The Ju­nior Pa­rade of the Bands held yes­ter­day at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah was met with ex­cite­ment and praise.

It was a bless­ing for Bla­ka Dan as he won the first Ul­ti­mate So­ca Cham­pi­on com­pe­ti­tion, with a to­tal score of 387 points and earn­ing the grand prize of $1 mil­lion.

“This should have nev­er hap­pened,” says Op­po­si­tion Chief Whip Dr David Lee as he con­demned the Cab­i­net’s de­ci­sion to scrap as­pects of the probe re­lat­ed to Au­di­tor Gen­er­al Jai­wantie Ram­dass.

The ap­point­ment of an ex­ter­nal in­ves­tiga­tive team to probe the miss­ing am­mu­ni­tion from the Cu­mu­to Bar­racks high­lights a con­cern­ing lack of trust in the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force (TTDF), ac­cord­ing to crim­i­nol­o­gist Dau­rius Figueira.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is set to be out in full force dur­ing the Car­ni­val sea­son. Act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Ju­nior Ben­jamin yes­ter­day as­sured the pub­lic that safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty are top pri­or­i­ties.

Son­ny Blacks, a name and an in­di­vid­ual not as wide­ly known in the gen­er­al pop­u­la­tion of T&T as he is among ca­lyp­so­ni­ans, pan­men, and steel­band lead­ers, has spent over 50 years pro­duc­ing and pro­mot­ing the best of our cul­tur­al artistes.

As mas­quer­aders pre­pare for the fi­nal days of Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions, it will be a more re­flec­tive and solemn pe­ri­od for the Is­lam­ic com­mu­ni­ty, as Mus­lims be­gin the holy month of Ra­madan to­day.

The U.S. State De­part­ment’s Bu­reau of West­ern Hemi­sphere is­sued a stern state­ment on Sat­ur­day af­ter a Venezue­lan ves­sel had ap­proached Guyana’s as­sets with­in its ex­clu­sive eco­nom­ic zone (EEZ).

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to a video cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia that ap­pears to show a WASA dri­ver asleep at the wheel of an of­fi­cial, marked ve­hi­cle.