The Trinidad and To­ba­go Pro­mot­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPA) says there are more fetes tak­ing place this year than last year, adding this is a sign the State of Emer­gency (SoE) is not af­fect­ing Car­ni­val events and has not im­pact­ed for­eign in­ter­est.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) St Au­gus­tine cam­pus is fac­ing mount­ing pres­sure, as ap­prox­i­mate­ly 20,000 ex­am­i­na­tion grades re­main un­sub­mit­ted due to an on­go­ing salary dis­pute with lec­tur­ers.

A con­struc­tion work­er from Gas­par­il­lo, who was ar­rest­ed and de­tained by the po­lice af­ter his co-work­ers at­tacked their su­per­vi­sor in a dis­pute over their pay, is set to re­ceive $250,000 in com­pen­sa­tion from the state.

A 72-year-old woman, her daugh­ter and son-in-law nar­row­ly es­caped a dev­as­tat­ing fire at their San Juan home on Tues­day night, jump­ing from the top win­dow of the two-storey build­ing to avoid be­ing trapped by flames.

Taxi dri­ver David Wilkin­son will have to wait an­oth­er three years be­fore he can earn an in­come ply­ing his car.

As parts of the world ob­serve Na­tion­al Pot­hole Day on Jan­u­ary 15th, some cit­i­zens of Trinidad and To­ba­go are call­ing on au­thor­i­ties to ad­dress the nu­mer­ous pot­holes on the na­tion’s road­ways.

A hip-hop su­per­star beef was cranked up an­oth­er notch Wednes­day when Drake sued Uni­ver­sal Mu­sic Group for defama­tion over ri­val Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us.”

Of­fi­cers at­tached to the High­way Pa­trol Unit seized over $1.7 mil­lion worth of cannabis dur­ing what they thought was a rou­tine traf­fic ex­er­cise in Ch­agua­nas yes­ter­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is seek­ing the pub­lic’s as­sis­tance lo­cat­ing 16-year-old Chris­t­ian Houl­der. Chris­t­ian, who lives at Ama­roos­ingh Street, Long­denville, was last seen on Jan­u­ary 13th and was re­port­ed miss­ing to the Long­denville Po­lice Post the next day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of Com­merce (TT Cham­ber) has re­spond­ed to the gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to ex­tend the State of Emer­gency (SOE) by three months, high­light­ing the im­por­tance of en­sur­ing safe­ty while ad­dress­ing crime holis­ti­cal­ly.

Is­rael and Hamas agreed to a cease­fire deal, me­di­a­tors an­nounced Wednes­day, paus­ing a dev­as­tat­ing 15-month war in the Gaza Strip and rais­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ty of wind­ing down the dead­liest and most de­struc­tive fight­ing be­tween the bit­ter en­e­mies.

The Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty has con­firmed re­ceiv­ing the fi­nal re­port on the trag­ic fire that claimed the lives of Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment and Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion, Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian, 48, her 25-year-old daugh­ter Xi­anne, and six-year-old son Je­si­ah.