Af­ter al­most a month with­out a pipe-borne wa­ter sup­ply, 73-year-old Boodram Sama­roo has been strug­gling to care for his bedrid­den wife and man­age dai­ly chores.

Op­po­si­tion Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les has called on Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath and the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) to com­pen­sate cit­i­zens whose wash­ing ap­pli­ances and clothes are be­ing dam­aged by “eight days of con­stant dirty wa­ter!”

Po­lice are try­ing to iden­ti­fy the de­com­pos­ing body of a woman found in bush­es near a pri­ma­ry school in Gas­par­il­lo on Wednes­day. The woman was list­ed as a Jane Doe in the po­lice re­port yes­ter­day.

An el­der­ly Tri­ni cou­ple va­ca­tion­ing in Pana­ma were al­most tram­pled on yes­ter­day as a mas­sive 7.7 earth­quake caused pan­ic in the city.

A To­ba­go fa­ther is ac­cus­ing po­lice of mur­der af­ter his son and an­oth­er male sus­pect were killed in a po­lice shootout at Gold­en Grove Road, Buc­coo, on Thurs­day night.

The suf­fi­cien­cy hear­ing of the eight charges lev­elled against hair styl­ist Ka­ia Sealy, re­lat­ed to a fa­tal po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing in Jan­u­ary which claimed the life of her part­ner Joshua Sama­roo, is set to go ahead as sched­uled lat­er this month. 

The trade union move­ment has post­poned its planned mass demon­stra­tion through Port of Spain from Oc­to­ber 16 to Oc­to­ber 23, out of re­spect for the late ca­lyp­so icon Mighty Spar­row, whose state-as­sist­ed fu­ner­al is sched­uled for Oc­to­ber 16.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said he has struck a deal to ob­tain diesel from Rus­sia, a stun­ning re­ver­sal of years of U.S. pres­sure on Moscow over its war with Ukraine and an at­tempt to ad­dress high fu­el prices ahead of the U.S. midterm elec­tions.

Home­own­ers gassed up gen­er­a­tors, filled bath­tubs with wa­ter and bought last-minute sup­plies along the U.S. Gulf Coast on Fri­day while Hur­ri­cane Isa­ias gained strength as it charged to­ward the beach­es of Al­aba­ma and the Flori­da Pan­han­dle.

A pow­er­ful mag­ni­tude 7.7 earth­quake struck Pana­ma on Fri­day morn­ing, shak­ing build­ings in the cap­i­tal, prompt­ing evac­u­a­tions and send­ing tremors as far as neigh­bor­ing Colom­bia.

Po­lice have con­firmed that on­ly one gun was re­cov­ered at the scene fol­low­ing last night’s po­lice shootout at Gold­en Grove Road, Buc­coo, which left two sus­pects dead.

Res­i­den­tial fires in Trinidad and To­ba­go have in­creased by 15 per cent in 2026; fire­fight­ers are urg­ing cit­i­zens to take a clos­er look at every­day habits that could put their homes at risk.