Much of the U.S. faced an­oth­er round of bit­ing win­ter weath­er on Sun­day, with tor­ren­tial rains caus­ing in­tense flood­ing in Ken­tucky and re­sult­ing in at least two deaths. The North­ern Plains faced life-threat­en­ing cold, and tor­na­do watch­es were is­sued for parts of Geor­gia and Flori­da.

Busi­ness­man Michael St John is su­ing the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) af­ter the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice’s (TTPS) data­base in­cor­rect­ly list­ed him for years as a con­vict­ed drug deal­er, im­pact­ing his rep­u­ta­tion.

Be­tween 2014 and 2023, a pe­ri­od of ten years, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) re­ceived up­wards of $25.5 bil­lion from the State, ac­cord­ing to pub­lic da­ta.

Medi­um band, Pan­de­mo­ni­um Steel Or­ches­tra, will kick off to­day’s lengthy pro­ceed­ings when the coun­try’s top 31 medi­um and large bands hit the stage in the an­nu­al Panora­ma Con­ven­tion­al Bands com­pe­ti­tion at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah from 1 pm.

A Moru­ga man seen on video beat­ing and threat­en­ing a nine-year-old boy with a knife has been ar­rest­ed and charged with child cru­el­ty. The 43-year-old was tak­en in­to cus­tody by of­fi­cers of the Spe­cial Vic­tims Unit (SVU) and spent the week­end in po­lice cus­tody.

Close to a month af­ter his body was found aban­doned in bush­es in Cara­po, the rel­a­tives of mur­dered Ca­roni man Ameer Dy­lan Ho­sein are urg­ing any­one with in­for­ma­tion on his death to come for­ward and as­sist the po­lice with their in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

Prakash Ra­mad­har be­lieves that his re­turn as leader of the Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP), on the eve of the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion, could save the 19-year-old par­ty from po­lit­i­cal bur­ial. 

While he did not want to di­vulge any in­for­ma­tion about the on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the con­duct of sus­pend­ed po­lice com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher, act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Ju­nior Ben­jamin says the mat­ter is “very much ac­tive.”

Six­teen ju­nior Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans, in­clud­ing reign­ing monarch Nata­ki Thomp­son, will be pro­ceed­ing to the fi­nal round of the Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) Ju­nior Ca­lyp­so Monarch on Feb­ru­ary 25, af­ter they re­ceived the ap­proval of judges dur­ing yes­ter­day’s semi­fi­nal event.

Two To­ba­go fish­er­men de­fied the odds, sur­viv­ing four har­row­ing days strand­ed at sea in what many are call­ing a ‘mir­a­cle’.

Af­ter in­tense crit­i­cism from Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley, Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has come un­der fire from po­lit­i­cal par­ties and even a Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) MP for at­tempt­ing to frame the court case and cor­rup­tion al­le­ga­tions against Dr Roodal Mooni­lal as a racial­ly mo­ti­vat­ed at­tack. They be­lieve that the elec­torate is no longer will­ing to tol­er­ate di­vi­sive, race-based pol­i­tics.

A 29-year-old man was stabbed to death af­ter he re­port­ed­ly got in­to an ar­gu­ment with a stranger in Wood­brook ear­ly on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.