Trop­i­cal Storm Sara on Sun­day made land­fall in Be­lize, where fore­cast­ers ex­pect heavy rain to cause life-threat­en­ing flash flood­ing and mud­slides.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) is ad­vis­ing cus­tomers that the Point Lisas De­sali­na­tion Plant was restart­ed around 5:00 p.m. on Sat­ur­day 16 No­vem­ber, one day ahead of the orig­i­nal­ly sched­uled com­ple­tion time.

Pre­mier and Min­is­ter of Fi­nance Dr Na­talio Wheat­ley says ed­u­ca­tors in the British Vir­gin Is­lands (BVI) now rank among the high­est-paid in the re­gion fol­low­ing a re­cent com­pen­sa­tion re­view.

Rus­sia on Sun­day launched a mas­sive drone and mis­sile at­tack on Ukraine, de­scribed by of­fi­cials as the largest over the past months, tar­get­ing en­er­gy in­fra­struc­ture and killing civil­ians.

Last week at COP29 there was a ris­ing tide of voic­es call­ing for a de­car­bon­i­sa­tion of the ship­ping in­dus­try. On Wednes­day, more than 50 lead­ers across the spec­trum of the ship­ping val­ue chain, in­clud­ing e-fu­el pro­duc­ers, ves­sel and car­go own­ers, ports, and equip­ment man­u­fac­tur­ers, signed a call to ac­tion to ac­cel­er­ate the adop­tion of ze­ro-emis­sion fu­els. The ship­ping in­dus­try ac­counts for three per cent of an­nu­al green­house gas emis­sions.

The pen­sion­er fought and con­quered can­cer three times in four years. She is blind in her left eye and lives alone but still man­ages her dai­ly tasks of cook­ing, wash­ing and clean­ing.

Pop­u­lar maxi-taxi dri­ver and self-pro­claimed ho­mo­sex­u­al Ken­nty Mitchell was gunned down out­side his Ste Madeleine home on Fri­day night.

T&T has been ex­pe­ri­enc­ing forex chal­lenges for the past 15 years and the is­sue usu­al­ly rais­es its head an­nu­al­ly around Christ­mas time when im­porters, es­pe­cial­ly small busi­ness­es re­liant on com­mer­cial banks, strug­gle to get an ad­e­quate amount to meet their needs.

For greater trans­paren­cy and ac­count­abil­i­ty, all T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) firearms used in ex­tra ju­di­cial killings will be sent for test­ing at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre (FSC). This will be done with im­me­di­ate ef­fect.

For 2024 so far, sev­en po­lice­men have been mur­dered and three of­fi­cers wound­ed in sep­a­rate, un­re­lat­ed in­ci­dents.

Ef­forts have been made to en­gage the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty con­cern­ing the on­go­ing im­passe over wage ne­go­ti­a­tions at the Port of Port-of-Spain, Sea­men and Wa­ter­front Work­ers Trade Union (SWW­TU) pres­i­dent Michael An­nisette said yes­ter­day.

The Min­istry of En­er­gy has launched a probe in­to the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing what ap­peared to be a gas leak which was cap­tured and post­ed to so­cial me­dia on Fri­day.