Gov­ern­ment has moved to clar­i­fy the role of Land­mark TT Prop­er­ties Ltd fol­low­ing crit­i­cism from for­mer hous­ing min­is­ter Camille Robin­son-Reg­is, who ac­cused the ad­min­is­tra­tion of us­ing the com­pa­ny to al­low as­so­ciates to ac­cess state lands at “pep­per­corn rates.”

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) will be de­liv­er­ing 250 hous­ing units to the peo­ple by Au­gust 2027.

The gov­ern­ment is tak­ing steps to bring the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) Debe cam­pus up to op­er­a­tional readi­ness ahead of the new aca­d­e­m­ic year, but no de­ci­sions have been made re­gard­ing which fac­ul­ties will oc­cu­py the site.

Min­is­ter of Land and Le­gal Af­fairs Sad­dam Ho­sein in­sists the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion’s (HDC) trans­fer fee pol­i­cy, which sparked con­fu­sion last month, is not in ef­fect.

Dan­ny Guer­ra, 49, the own­er of DG Homes, was laid to rest yes­ter­day, a week af­ter he was gunned down by masked as­sailants while seat­ed in his black Toy­ota Hilux at his North Oropouche busi­ness.

A fire short­ly af­ter mid­day yes­ter­day caused mil­lions of dol­lars in dam­age at the up­per lev­el of Mit­su­da Su­per­store on Old Road, Long­denville.

A 77-year-old man was found dead af­ter a fire de­stroyed his home in Sea Lots, Port-of-Spain, on Wednes­day.

Tragedy struck off Ica­cos Vil­lage in Ce­dros yes­ter­day af­ter a fish­er­man died when a fish­ing pirogue cap­sized at sea.

The stab­bing of a mi­nor at the Na­tion­al Care and Em­pow­er­ment Cen­tre in Pi­paro has reignit­ed scruti­ny of the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go, with So­cial De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Van­dana Mo­hit de­mand­ing the im­me­di­ate re­vo­ca­tion of the board’s ap­point­ments.

The re­cent mur­ders of Sta­cy Sama­roo and Rashme Deoa­jit have reignit­ed calls from a women’s group for a spe­cial court to ad­dress gen­der-based vi­o­lence in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ex­tend­ed warm Eid-ul-Fitr greet­ings to Mus­lims in Trinidad and To­ba­go as the holy month of Ra­madan draws to a close.

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo has de­scribed Eid-ul-Fitr as a pe­ri­od of “grat­i­tude, gen­eros­i­ty, re­new­al, and deep spir­i­tu­al re­flec­tion.”