Fol­low­ing a se­ries of fires in Tor­tu­ga that were de­lib­er­ate­ly set, res­i­dents are liv­ing un­der a cloud of fear as they won­der who will be the next tar­get.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert brought a swift end to the con­tin­u­ous ex­ten­sions of waivers and penal­ties for com­pa­nies fail­ing to file an­nu­al re­turns and oth­er doc­u­ments.

Af­ter her dis­ap­pear­ance in Oc­to­ber, rel­a­tives of 44-year-old Jamie Mo­hammed re­mained hope­ful that she would be found, but their hopes were dashed on Thurs­day when a de­com­pos­ing head­less body was found in the bush­es in Siparia.

The Salaries Re­view Com­mis­sion (SRC) has rec­om­mend­ed that the prime min­is­ter’s salary be in­creased by $28,167 over what it cur­rent­ly is.

Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan has spo­ken out about the im­passe be­tween the Port Au­thor­i­ty and the the SWW­TU.

Be­lize is­sued trop­i­cal storm warn­ings for the Cen­tral Amer­i­can coun­try’s coast on Fri­day as Trop­i­cal Storm Sara stalled in the west­ern Caribbean, dous­ing Hon­duras’ north­ern coast with heavy rain.

An an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in the Cou­va and Freeport ar­eas on No­vem­ber 14 led to the seizure of firearms, cannabis, and the ar­rest of four men.

Two men were ar­rest­ed af­ter po­lice seized a gun, am­mu­ni­tion and cannabis dur­ing two ex­er­cis­es in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Two peo­ple ap­peared be­fore Mas­ter Sarah De Sil­va at the High Court on Thurs­day, No­vem­ber 14, charged with cor­rup­tion and fraud-re­lat­ed of­fences re­lat­ed to a ve­hi­cle trans­fer. 

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) is at­tribut­ing pow­er out­ages that oc­curred this morn­ing at 6.55 a.m. to a load-shed­ding event on their sys­tem, stem­ming from is­sues with mul­ti­ple gen­er­a­tor units at In­de­pen­dent Pow­er Pro­duc­ers (IPPs) sup­ply­ing bulk elec­tric­i­ty to T&TEC.

Three weeks af­ter 46-year-old Jaime Mo­hammed went miss­ing, her de­com­pos­ing, head­less body was found in a bushy area in Siparia on Thurs­day. 

Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) trade and eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment min­is­ters will meet lat­er this month, the Guyana-based CARI­COM Sec­re­tari­at has an­nounced.