Re­nes­sa Or­tiz knows first-hand the val­ue of a well-fit­ting, beau­ti­ful gown in build­ing con­fi­dence.

The In­ter­na­tion­al Court of Jus­tice (ICJ) is set to be­gin oral hear­ings on May 4, in the long-run­ning bor­der dis­pute be­tween Guyana and Venezuela, mark­ing a piv­otal phase in one of the coun­try’s most con­se­quen­tial le­gal bat­tles.

The bil­lion-dol­lar wage set­tle­ments that the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) and the Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment and Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers (NUGFW) have both re­cent­ly se­cured should not im­pact wage ne­go­ti­a­tions in the pri­vate sec­tor.

A ma­jor push to re­duce food waste could sig­nif­i­cant­ly low­er Trinidad and To­ba­go’s food im­port bill and bol­ster na­tion­al self-sus­tain­abil­i­ty, ac­cord­ing to Louisea John-Browne, founder of In­crease Kids Agro World (IKAW).

Caribbean coun­tries, in­clud­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go, face sig­nif­i­cant con­straints in fi­nanc­ing, in­fra­struc­ture and pol­i­cy co­or­di­na­tion as they pur­sue a just en­er­gy tran­si­tion, ac­cord­ing to a new re­port by Cli­mate An­a­lyt­ics Caribbean (CAC), which warns that cur­rent gaps could un­der­mine im­ple­men­ta­tion across key sec­tors.

Pope Leo XIV urged the Unit­ed States and Iran to re­turn to talks to end the war Thurs­day and con­demned cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment, in a wide-rang­ing press con­fer­ence en route home from his trip to Africa.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump has or­dered the U.S. mil­i­tary to “shoot and kill” small Iran­ian boats that de­ploy mines in the Strait of Hor­muz, he said Thurs­day, a day af­ter Iran again dis­played its abil­i­ty to thwart traf­fic through the chan­nel.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) and the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) are warn­ing cit­i­zens about a se­ries of fraud­u­lent schemes tar­get­ing peo­ple seek­ing af­ford­able hous­ing.

A High Court judge has or­dered the Reg­is­trar Gen­er­al to re­sume ac­cept­ing hard­copy doc­u­ments from com­pa­nies.

A man is re­ceiv­ing treat­ment af­ter be­ing shot short­ly af­ter drop­ping off a woman in east Port of Spain on Wednes­day night.

The Greater Ari­ma Cham­ber of Com­merce is call­ing for a se­ries of strength­ened na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures, say­ing the cur­rent cli­mate re­quires more ad­vanced sys­tems and mod­ern en­force­ment tools.

A 30-year-old Pe­nal man was sen­tenced on Tues­day to 37-and-a-half years im­pris­on­ment with hard labour af­ter be­ing con­vict­ed of five counts of sex­u­al pen­e­tra­tion of a child, fol­low­ing a judge-alone tri­al.