With the sev­en-day shut­down of the Point Lisas De­sali­na­tion Plant com­menc­ing to­day, sev­er­al af­fect­ed res­i­dents in south Trinidad spent the week­end fill­ing up their wa­ter con­tain­ers and en­sur­ing that they have suf­fi­cient drink­ing wa­ter.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Kei­th Scot­land is call­ing for cool­er heads to pre­vail as there are claims of busi­ness­men want­i­ng to take mat­ters in­to their own hands in re­sponse to a surge in ex­tor­tions.

An ex-coast­guard of­fi­cer and his friend were bru­tal­ly chopped dur­ing a bar brawl in Siparia on Sat­ur­day.

Amidst re­cent un­prece­dent­ed cli­mate events which have left nu­mer­ous coun­tries grap­pling with dev­as­tat­ing loss of life and eco­nom­ic blows, Small Is­land De­vel­op­ing States (SIDS) are in­ten­si­fy­ing their call for a trans­for­ma­tive New Col­lec­tive Quan­ti­fied Fi­nance goal, the NC­QG, at COP29.

Barataria/San Juan MP Sad­dam Ho­sein is call­ing on At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Regi­nald Ar­mour, SC, to pub­licly dis­close the fees paid to at­tor­neys who rep­re­sent­ed the State dur­ing a re­cent hear­ing at the Privy Coun­cil in Lon­don.

The Falls at West­mall aims to cre­ate a wow fac­tor for every­one who walks through its doors with its pre­sen­ta­tion, The Mag­ic of the Falls. The theme is part of Christ­mas cel­e­bra­tions at the mall and kicked off last week with the bless­ing of the crèche and a live per­for­mance from singer Joel John.

De­spite calls from the In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF) for the Gov­ern­ment to end for­eign ex­change re­stric­tions, Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert in­sists that the Gov­ern­ment has main­tained its fixed for­eign ex­change regime to con­trol in­fla­tion.

The Min­istry of Fi­nance main­tains there is no need to de­sist from the cur­rent pol­i­cy of main­tain­ing the TT Dol­lar at a fixed rate, and al­so as­serts that there will be a re­vi­sion to the es­sen­tial im­ports fa­cil­i­ty that cur­rent­ly ex­ists at the Ex­im­Bank.

A 26-year-old To­co man has been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with a rob­bery that took place at the home of To­co busi­ness­man on Fri­day.

A se­ries of an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es dur­ing the week­end have re­sult­ed in the ar­rest of 10 peo­ple, the seizure of an il­le­gal weapon and the de­struc­tion of sev­er­al mar­i­jua­na trees, the Po­lice Ser­vice has con­firmed.

The Po­lice Ser­vice is re­it­er­at­ing its call for mo­torists to re­frain from drink­ing and dri­ving, fol­low­ing the ar­rest of four peo­ple dur­ing a DUI ex­er­cise in San­gre Grande.

Three men have been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the rob­bery which took place at the Suarez Broth­ers Cir­cus at En­deav­our Av­enue, Ch­agua­nas, on Tues­day 29 Oc­to­ber 2024, ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports.