Po­lice are work­ing to con­firm the iden­ti­ty of burnt skele­tal re­mains dis­cov­ered off a track in Bon Air on Sun­day af­ter­noon.

PNM po­lit­i­cal leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has wel­comed the elec­tion of Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis as head of the par­ty’s To­ba­go Coun­cil, de­scrib­ing it as a key mo­ment as the par­ty con­tin­ues its re­build­ing ef­forts fol­low­ing its de­feat in the THA elec­tions.

A man in his ear­ly 20s, be­lieved to be a street dweller, was shot dead on a stair­case in Bel­mont on Sun­day night.

Af­ter vis­it­ing Grena­da three weeks ago, Venezue­lan act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez ar­rived in Bar­ba­dos on Sun­day night for “high-lev­el dis­cus­sions” dur­ing an of­fi­cial state vis­it.

For­mer To­ba­go West MP Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis is the new po­lit­i­cal leader of the PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil.

Po­lice of­fi­cers and road traf­fic safe­ty stake­hold­ers are urg­ing dri­vers to take their time on the road­way.

Po­lice and road safe­ty stake­hold­ers say the coun­try’s lat­est road deaths have again raised con­cerns about speed­ing, seat­belt use and care­less dri­ving and are urg­ing mo­torists to ex­er­cise cau­tion on the na­tion’s roads.

Bal­lot pa­pers ran out twice at Ply­mouth An­gli­can Pri­ma­ry School polling sta­tion yes­ter­day, as a high turnout of vot­ers for the in­ter­nal elec­tions caught the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment To­ba­go Coun­cil off guard.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos, CMC—Venezuela’s act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­driguez ar­rived in Bar­ba­dos last night, her sec­ond vis­it to a Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) coun­try since she was sworn in­to of­fice in Jan­u­ary, fol­low­ing the Unit­ed States in­va­sion of the South Amer­i­can coun­try that led to the de­ten­tion of for­mer pres­i­dent Nico­las Maduro.

A San Fer­nan­do com­mu­ni­ty is dis­put­ing a po­lice ac­count of a fa­tal shoot­ing, in­sist­ing 45-year-old Shiv­nath Jo­gie was un­jus­ti­fi­ably killed at his home, as calls grow for body cam­eras to bring clar­i­ty to such en­coun­ters.

The mat­ter con­cern­ing the Port-of-Spain Wa­ter­front De­vel­op­ment Ltd (POSWDL), a sub­sidiary of the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of T&T (UDe­COTT), as out­lined in the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al's Re­port, has sur­faced as a sig­nif­i­cant point of con­tention re­gard­ing the trans­paren­cy of sov­er­eign debt.

It was a night of laugh­ter, nos­tal­gia and trib­ute as 95 The Ul­ti­mate One marked its 50th an­niver­sary, cel­e­brat­ing a lega­cy that has car­ried T&T through the shift from tra­di­tion­al ra­dio to a fast-evolv­ing dig­i­tal age at Wood­ford Café, Ch­agua­nas, on Sat­ur­day night.