A Moru­ga fam­i­ly is in mourn­ing fol­low­ing the trag­ic death of 58-year-old Ral­phie Kadill, who fell ap­prox­i­mate­ly 12 feet off a precipice near his home along Harp­er Trace, St Mary’s Vil­lage, on Tues­day night.

Pro­fes­sor Ju­dith Gob­in has been ap­point­ed to a group of 15 sci­en­tists to pre­pare the Glob­al Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment Re­port for 2027.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing an as­sault with in­tent to rob re­port­ed on Tues­day along the East­ern Main Road, San Juan.

A 35-year-old man has been ar­rest­ed and two firearms and am­mu­ni­tion seized dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion on Tues­day.

An­tigua and Bar­bu­da’s Am­bas­sador to the Unit­ed States and the Or­ga­ni­za­tion of Amer­i­can States (OAS), Sir Ronald Sanders is urg­ing the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al, Dr. Car­la Bar­nett to con­sid­er ten­der­ing her res­ig­na­tion amidst the on­go­ing con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing her reap­point­ment to the post.

The Caribbean Pre­mier League will be­gin on Au­gust 7 with match­es in St Vin­cent and the Grenadines for the first time.

Trinidad and To­ba­go is not fac­ing an im­me­di­ate drought, but dri­er con­di­tions could de­vel­op lat­er this year, ac­cord­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS).

The cap­tain and crew of a car­go boat, which docked off the Port of Port-of-Spain on Sun­day for re­pairs, were robbed by armed men of valu­ables and equip­ment, in­clud­ing a boat en­gine.

Mus­lim groups across Trinidad and To­ba­go met in an emer­gency ses­sion yes­ter­day to dis­cuss Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to of­fi­cial­ly des­ig­nate three or­gan­i­sa­tions - Hezbol­lah, Hamas and Iran’s Is­lam­ic Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Guard Corps (IRGC) - as ter­ror­ist en­ti­ties.

Gov­ern­ment Sen­a­tor David Nakhid says the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al will even­tu­al­ly pro­vide fur­ther de­tails on ques­tions swirling around the State’s sweep­ing des­ig­na­tion of three ma­jor Mid­dle East­ern or­gan­i­sa­tions as ter­ror­ist en­ti­ties.

For­mer na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter Gary Grif­fith has en­dorsed Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to clas­si­fy Hamas, Iran’s Is­lam­ic Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Lebanon’s Hezbol­lah as ter­ror­ist groups, say­ing it is a means of en­abling the au­thor­i­ties to pre­vent fi­nanc­ing to armed groups.

A dual mile­stone in lo­cal mil­i­tary his­to­ry was ob­served be­tween last week and this week, as the first-ever woman and at­tor­ney were pro­mot­ed to the rank of colonel in the T&T Reg­i­ment.