Dur­ing his 25-year ca­reer, gui­tarist Joey Ng Wai touched the lives of many, both mu­sic lovers and mu­si­cians. As a gui­tarist, he was known for his work on lo­cal clas­sics such as Go­lo, Dhan­tal Fever, and Jump.

Black Star and Or­lan­do Oc­tave are among the sev­en con­tes­tants who will op­pose reign­ing cham­pi­on Squeezy Rankin for the Freestyle Monarch ti­tle at next Tues­day’s Kaiso­ra­ma at the Radis­son Ho­tel.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) has signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing (MoU) with the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly’s (THA) Di­vi­sion of Food Se­cu­ri­ty, Nat­ur­al Re­sources, the En­vi­ron­ment, and Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is re­port­ing a 33 per­cent re­duc­tion in road traf­fic deaths for 2025 so far, com­pared to the same pe­ri­od last year. Speak­ing on CNC3’s The Morn­ing Brew on Mon­day, TTPS’ Road Traf­fic Co­or­di­na­tor, Sergeant Brent Bat­son, said that al­though he is pleased to re­port this sta­tis­tic, the fre­quen­cy of in­ci­dents re­mains a con­cern. Bat­son re­ferred to Fri­day’s sev­en-ve­hi­cle col­li­sion along the east­bound lane of the Churchill-Roo­sevelt High­way, near the Val­park Shop­ping Plaza.

Ca­roni Cen­tral MP Arnold Ram has wel­comed the re­open­ing of the Bras­so Po­lice Sta­tion but crit­i­cised the gov­ern­ment for wait­ing un­til tragedy struck to act.

Maxi Taxi dri­vers and com­muters should be on alert this week as the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route (PBR) shuts down for overnight road­works, the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port said.

The Guyana De­fence Force (GDF) on Tues­day said the six sol­diers who were shot af­ter be­ing am­bushed by masked gun­men in the Cuyu­ni Riv­er on Mon­day, were med­ical­ly evac­u­at­ed to the cap­i­tal for ur­gent fol­low-up med­ical care.

Econ­o­mist and UWI Lec­tur­er Dr Mar­lene Attzs has de­nied any af­fil­i­a­tion with the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress.

In­cum­bent Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Diego Mar­tin North East, Colm Im­bert, has promised his con­stituents that this term will be his ‘very best’ as he rep­re­sents them one last time.

For­mer Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress MP Dr Fuad Khan pre­dicts that Ma­yaro con­stituents who are threat­en­ing "No Paray no vote!" will all end up sup­port­ing who­ev­er the par­ty choos­es - and Ma­yaro nom­i­nees in­clude UNC in­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions of­fi­cer Nicholas Mor­ris, who spoke on in­cum­bent Ma­yaro MP Rush­ton Paray's plat­form in 2015.

A Trinida­di­an-born Iraq war vet­er­an, who legal­ly lived in the Unit­ed States for more than 20 years, is now fac­ing de­por­ta­tion af­ter be­ing de­tained by US Im­mi­gra­tion and Cus­toms En­force­ment (ICE).

Dri­vers head­ing south on the Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way will see wel­come traf­fic shift from Mon­day, as the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port opens ad­di­tion­al lanes be­tween the Brent­wood Ac­cel­er­a­tion Lane and the Chase Vil­lage Over­pass.