A rou­tine morn­ing trip in­to the “bush” turned fa­tal for 73-year-old gar­den­er Steven­son Lumy, af­ter he was shot in his leg by a trap gun in Moru­ga yes­ter­day.

In­cum­bent Laven­tille East/Mor­vant MP Adri­an Leonce is ready to pass the ba­ton on to Chris­t­ian Birch­wood, the PNM’s pick for Laven­tille East/Mor­vant ahead of the next gen­er­al elec­tion.

Staff mem­bers and of­fi­cials at the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion are still mourn­ing the death of Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian, but there is un­cer­tain­ty if her role—as Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion—will be re­lin­quished when a new gov­ern­ment is in­stalled. Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly ad­mit­ted that the Ed­u­ca­tion Min­istry is a huge re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for one min­is­ter to tend to, but could not say whether an­oth­er min­is­ter will be ap­point­ed if the PNM wins the up­com­ing elec­tion.

Back­bencher and Ch­agua­nas West MP Di­nesh Ram­bal­ly says he will still serve the peo­ple of T&T, should he not be se­lect­ed to rep­re­sent the con­stituen­cy.

Af­ter he was re­moved from a To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly ple­nary sit­ting on Thurs­day, Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots po­lit­i­cal leader Wat­son Duke has vowed to en­sure the po­lit­i­cal death of the Far­ley Au­gus­tine-led ad­min­is­tra­tion.

Po­lice iden­ti­fied the first vic­tim as Avinash Gob­in, al­so known as Spi­der, a 40-year-old land­scap­er who lived at Branch Trace, En­ter­prise.

The fam­i­ly of 31-year-old Ameer Dy­lan Ho­sein is plead­ing for as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing him af­ter his sud­den dis­ap­pear­ance last Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) has spent $72.1 mil­lion for the Feb­ru­ary 2024 oil spill, ex­ceed­ing the $50 mil­lion al­lo­cat­ed by the Cen­tral Gov­ern­ment, with $4.9 mil­lion in out­stand­ing debts to clear.

A car­pen­ter has won his le­gal chal­lenge over a mag­is­trate’s de­ci­sion to al­low the po­lice to con­tin­ue to “de­tain” al­most $86,000 in cash seized from him in 2023. 

A 47-year-old man from cen­tral Trinidad has been sen­tenced to 12 years in prison for mo­lest­ing his 10-year-old niece on Christ­mas morn­ing in 2009.

The Min­istry of Health is urg­ing the pop­u­la­tion to re­frain from eat­ing Gi­ant African Snails, warn­ing of se­ri­ous health com­pli­ca­tions that could re­sult, in­clud­ing menin­gi­tis, which can be fa­tal in chil­dren.

TSTT CEO Kent West­ern is as­sur­ing the pub­lic that the com­pa­ny has tak­en de­ci­sive mea­sures to boost its cy­ber­se­cu­ri­ty frame­work fol­low­ing an Oc­to­ber 2023 da­ta breach that ex­posed six gi­ga­bytes of cus­tomer da­ta.