The move by the UK gov­ern­ment, which re­quires all T&T na­tion­als to ac­quire a visa be­fore en­ter­ing that coun­try, has been de­scribed as “bizarre” by econ­o­mist Dr Vaalmik­ki Ar­joon.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has crit­i­cised Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s Gov­ern­ment for fail­ing to take the nec­es­sary ac­tions to pre­vent the re­cent roll­out of new visa re­quire­ments for the trav­el to the Unit­ed King­dom.

An el­der­ly man and his two adult chil­dren were robbed dur­ing a home in­va­sion in Pe­nal on Mon­day.

Chan­dra­daye Maraj Adams, moth­er of re­put­ed un­der­world fig­ure Akin­ni “Dole” Adams, claims her fam­i­ly is be­ing un­fair­ly tar­get­ed by po­lice of­fi­cers af­ter a door at her home was dam­aged dur­ing a po­lice search in Sea Lots on Tues­day morn­ing.

As prime min­is­ter-des­ig­nate Stu­art Young pre­pares to take of­fice next week, for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) gen­er­al sec­re­tary Ash­ton Ford be­lieves Young will first have to counter Op­po­si­tion mis­in­for­ma­tion while nav­i­gat­ing race re­la­tions be­fore ad­dress­ing the oth­er is­sues he will have on his plate.

Mus­lims across T&T have joined mil­lions around the world in ob­serv­ing the Holy Month of Ra­madan, a pe­ri­od ded­i­cat­ed to fast­ing, char­i­ty, and re­flec­tion.

Even as thou­sands of gal­lons of wa­ter gushed in­to the Wood­land plains from a bro­ken main, res­i­dents of the near­by San Fran­cique com­mu­ni­ty protest­ed yes­ter­day over a month-long wa­ter prob­lem.

Gov­ern­ment has in­creased the amount of mon­ey paid to con­trac­tors for the con­struc­tion of starter homes.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) has lost its bid to over­turn an $18 mil­lion de­fault judg­ment ob­tained against it by a con­tract­ing com­pa­ny, af­ter it failed to prop­er­ly de­fend its law­suit over un­paid fees. 

A 48-year-old man from Williamsville, who ad­mit­ted to stab­bing his es­tranged wife to death af­ter he caught her hav­ing sex with a for­mer part­ner, will be re­leased from prison in a lit­tle over three years. 

The de­ci­sion to re­as­sign act­ing stenog­ra­ph­er Mindy Ra­moutar to an­oth­er de­part­ment in the Board of In­land Rev­enue was due to a staff short­age and not be­cause of the pres­ence of a “voodoo” arte­fact.

A 56-year-old man ap­peared be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court, charged with the mur­der of 19-year-old Prince Charles, which oc­curred dur­ing Car­ni­val Tues­day cel­e­bra­tions.