The Unit­ed States De­part­ment of Jus­tice (DOJ) says a man who found­ed a home for im­pov­er­ished chil­dren in Haiti, is sched­uled to be sen­tenced on May 5 and faces a max­i­mum penal­ty of 30 years in prison on each of the sev­en to­tal counts of sex­u­al­ly abus­ing boys at the fa­cil­i­ty.

A six-year-old boy was yes­ter­day nurs­ing in­juries at hos­pi­tal fol­low­ing a mass shoot­ing on Sat­ur­day in Ari­ma, which left his moth­er, fa­ther and un­cle dead.

De­ter­mined to find out how her on­ly child,  28-year-old Dy­lan Ma­haraj, was killed, a South Oropouche moth­er yes­ter­day plead­ed for an­swers. Grief-strick­en and heart­bro­ken, Vashti Singh could not hold back her tears dur­ing an in­ter­view with re­porters at her home yes­ter­day. 

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has de­nied that the lap­top of mur­dered at­tor­ney Ran­dall Hec­tor is miss­ing.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress can­di­dates Ernesto Ke­sar and Clyde El­der have re­signed from the Move­ment of So­cial Jus­tice (MSJ).

Two days af­ter Able Sea­man Kieron Si­mon dis­ap­peared when a nar­co-sub­ma­rine in Grena­di­an wa­ters sank dur­ing a drug bust, lo­cal au­thor­i­ties have as­sured they are do­ing all they can to as­sist in the ef­fort to lo­cate him as ef­forts are be­ing in­ten­si­fied.

The pub­lic’s help is be­ing sought to iden­ti­fy a man who slipped and fell in Bel­mont on Sat­ur­day. He lat­er died at hos­pi­tal.

Act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Ju­nior Ben­jamin has ad­mit­ted that the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice erred in the way it pre­vi­ous­ly han­dled the pur­chas­ing and main­te­nance of many of its ve­hi­cles.

In six days, 11 fi­nal­ists will vie for the pres­ti­gious Ca­lyp­so Monarch crown at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah in Port-of-Spain.

So­ca su­per­star Machel Mon­tano has apol­o­gised to rap su­per­star, singer and song­writer Nic­ki Mi­naj for what he says was “a mis­take, mis­un­der­stand­ing on his part” for com­ments made at the Stink N Dut­ty. Dur­ing his per­for­mance, he al­lud­ed to a “fight down” against him by Mi­naj and Trinidad Kil­la.

Adam Smith Square in Port-of-Spain came alive with the in­fec­tious en­er­gy of young mas­quer­aders who rev­elled be­neath the sun dur­ing this year’s NCC Ju­nior Kings, Queens and In­di­vid­u­als pre­lim­i­nary com­pe­ti­tion on Sun­day.

From ba­bies to teenagers, young mas­quer­aders took over the streets of Mara­bel­la yes­ter­day, trans­form­ing them in­to a sea of colour, mas and en­er­gy.