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.”

Truck­ers are in a buoy­ant mood fol­low­ing a meet­ing with Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine yes­ter­day aboard the Blue Wave Har­mo­ny as it sailed from Port-of-Spain to Scar­bor­ough.

A man from South Oropouche has threat­ened to sue the State over an un­pro­voked beat­ing by prison of­fi­cers while he was on re­mand for a rob­bery charge. 

A 36-year-old fac­to­ry work­er from Ch­agua­nas has been ac­quit­ted of be­ing in pos­ses­sion of a se­mi-au­to­mat­ic pis­tol mod­i­fied to be ful­ly au­to­mat­ic.

The Con­trac­tors and Gen­er­al Work­ers Union (CG­WU) is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo to in­ter­vene in the on­go­ing de­lay of back pay and salary in­creas­es owed to dai­ly-paid work­ers at the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion (SFCC).

St Joseph’s Con­vent San Fer­nan­do is shap­ing more than high-achiev­ing stu­dents—it is cul­ti­vat­ing young women ground­ed in char­ac­ter, dis­ci­pline and faith, prin­ci­pal Joanne Bak­er said on Wednes­day.

The Min­istry of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices (MPS­DFS) has pro­vid­ed more than $200,000 in Home Re­pair and Dis­as­ter Gen­er­al As­sis­tance Grants to sup­port vul­ner­a­ble house­holds in the Princes Town re­gion.

The Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture and Fish­eries has re­sumed night trap­ping ex­er­cis­es in the South-East and South-West quad­rants of Trinidad as part of the na­tion­al Vam­pire Bat Pop­u­la­tion Con­trol Pro­gramme.

A 50-year-old busi­ness­man from Gold­en Grove, Canaan, has been fined $100,000 af­ter plead­ing guilty to firearm and am­mu­ni­tion charges at the Scar­bor­ough Mag­is­trates’ Court.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice has con­firmed the safe re­cov­ery of 57-year-old Suraj Ram­lakhan fol­low­ing a mul­ti-agency, in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion on Wednes­day night.