Fire of­fi­cials re­port­ed re­ceiv­ing a call about a house fire on Maraj Street, Quar­ry Road, San Juan, around 4 am. When they ar­rived, they found a two-storey con­crete house ablaze. Af­ter the fire was ex­tin­guished, they learned the prop­er­ty be­longed to Bak­er.  

Around 3:25 pm, a 61-year-old man and his 10-year-old daugh­ter were de­liv­er­ing a dog to Main­gotville, Clax­ton Bay. Up­on ar­rival, the 18-year-old, who pre­tend­ed to be a cus­tomer, told them to dri­ve to Ben Win­ches­ter Street. There, he pulled out a gun, de­mand­ed the dog and oth­er valu­ables, and an­nounced a rob­bery.

Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh has di­rect­ed the im­me­di­ate re­in­state­ment of Dr. Joel Teelucks­ingh, who was placed on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave by the South-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) pend­ing an in­ter­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

Pres­i­dent Ir­faan Ali has voiced con­cern over US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s plan to im­pose tar­iffs on ships/ves­sels, made in Chi­na, say­ing this could im­pact trade in Guyana and the re­gion.

The con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) in Diego Mar­tin North East has re­signed, cit­ing pres­sure to sup­port Pro­gres­sive Em­pow­er­ment Par­ty (PEP) leader Phillip Ed­ward Alexan­der and con­cerns over the di­rec­tion of the par­ty’s lead­er­ship.

The South-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) has con­firmed that an em­ploy­ee has been placed on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave pend­ing an in­ter­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion—but did not name the in­di­vid­ual or spec­i­fy the cir­cum­stances prompt­ing the ac­tion.

A weak and frail Pope Fran­cis re­turned home to the Vat­i­can from the hos­pi­tal on Sun­day af­ter sur­viv­ing a five-week, life-threat­en­ing bout of pneu­mo­nia, mak­ing a sur­prise stop at his favourite basil­i­ca on the way home be­fore be­gin­ning two months of pre­scribed rest and re­cov­ery.

A young Trinida­di­an doc­tor’s stel­lar aca­d­e­m­ic achieve­ment is a source of im­mense pride for the coun­try as well as his peers and col­leagues in the med­ical pro­fes­sion.

When I think of my fa­ther–Colonel Ma­hen­dra Nath Math­ur (Jan­u­ary 1, 1932–March 16, 2025)–I think cin­e­mat­i­cal­ly. A skat­ing rink in Sim­la, the snowy glare of the Hi­malayas around us, his hand in mine. A dark­ened the­atre in Ban­ga­lore, his gaze not on the screen but on me, de­light­ing in my laugh­ter. In­spect­ing his bat­tal­ion in Ban, laugh­ter ring­ing out as he glid­ed ef­fort­less­ly across the ice.

In a re­mark­able fu­sion of in­no­va­tion and tra­di­tion, T&T’s fash­ion in­dus­try has launched a bold and ground­break­ing re­cy­cling ini­tia­tive in ho­n­our of World Re­cy­cling Day, which was cel­e­brat­ed on March 20.

A heat­ed dis­pute es­ca­lat­ed in­to fa­tal gun­fire as 30-year-old Nichol­son Bowen, al­so known as “Bal­co”, was shot and killed near his home in Lendore Vil­lage on Fri­day evening.

Ju­nior Cleary, of LP 22 Dibe Road, Long Cir­cu­lar, St James, was found suf­fer­ing from mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds around 10:50 pm on Benares Street. Re­spond­ing of­fi­cers from the St James Po­lice Sta­tion dis­cov­ered Cleary ly­ing on the pave­ment, gasp­ing for breath. He had a se­vere head wound, with blood flow­ing from his left tem­ple and nasal area.