Pow­er was re­stored to near­ly all elec­tri­cal cus­tomers across Puer­to Ri­co on Wednes­day af­ter a sweep­ing black­out plunged the U.S. ter­ri­to­ry in­to dark­ness on New Year’s Eve.

The Panora­ma 2025 com­pe­ti­tion in the Small Con­ven­tion­al Bands’ Cat­e­go­ry gets un­der­way in two days, be­gin­ning at the Tokyo Steel Or­ches­tra Pa­n­yard at No. 2A Plai­sance Road, John John, Laven­tille.

The Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (LATT) is call­ing all state at­tor­neys to be pro­tect­ed fol­low­ing the shoot­ing death of Ran­dall Hec­tor.

Econ­o­mist Dr Vaalmik­ki Ar­joon has said that he hopes the re­sults of the State of Emer­gency (SoE) will not be tem­po­rary but that mea­sures put in place will con­tin­ue long af­ter the SoE is over.

The Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (LATT) is hop­ing that the key ob­jec­tives of the cur­rent State of Emer­gency (SoE) are met and “re­alised in the short­est pos­si­ble time”, as law-abid­ing cit­i­zens’ civ­il rights and lib­er­ties can be neg­a­tive­ly af­fect­ed dur­ing such a cru­cial pe­ri­od.

Sev­en peo­ple were ar­rest­ed, and two high-pow­ered ri­fles along with quan­ti­ties of cannabis were seized dur­ing the De­cem­ber 2024 pe­ri­od, as the Tac­ti­cal Sup­port Unit car­ried out sev­er­al Op­er­a­tion BLAST an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es.

A quan­ti­ty of high-grade com­pressed cannabis was seized dur­ing a po­lice op­er­a­tion con­duct­ed in St. James last night, the Po­lice Ser­vice is re­port­ing.

Se­nior Coun­sel Lar­ry Lal­la has called for the im­me­di­ate re­moval of the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher fol­low­ing the as­sas­si­na­tion of at­tor­ney Ran­dall Hec­tor on New Year’s Eve, a crime he says high­lights a fail­ure of lead­er­ship with­in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

As she clutched her nine-month-old son in her arms, a 20-year-old Vista­bel­la wait­ress nar­row­ly es­caped death af­ter she was stabbed in the ab­domen on New Year’s Day fol­low­ing an ar­gu­ment with a man she knew.

Po­lice are search­ing for a gun­man who opened fire on a Ste Madeleine man, shoot­ing him in the chest on New Year’s Day.

The Gov­ern­ments of the Unit­ed States and Cana­da on Wednes­day com­mem­o­rat­ed Haiti Na­tion­al Day, ex­tend­ing “heart­felt best wish­es to Haiti and its peo­ple” on the 221st an­niver­sary of the French-speak­ing Caribbean coun­try’s in­de­pen­dence.

A U.S. Army vet­er­an who drove a pick­up truck in­to a crowd of New Year’s rev­ellers in New Or­leans, killing 15 peo­ple, had post­ed videos to so­cial me­dia hours be­fore the car­nage say­ing he was in­spired by the Is­lam­ic State group and ex­press­ing a de­sire to kill, the pres­i­dent said.