In the wee hours of Wednes­day morn­ing, a 27-year-old co­conut ven­dor from Gas­par­il­lo re­port­ed­ly de­fend­ed him­self dur­ing an at­tempt­ed rob­bery while at the Preysal Fly­over.

Res­i­dents of Bel­mont were jolt­ed by gun­shots fol­lowed by the sound of a car crash around 11:25 pm on Tues­day (No­vem­ber 12, 2024).

Ca­reer Day at Va­len­cia RC/Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School is more than just a date on the cal­en­dar—it is a vi­tal ex­pe­ri­ence that plays a key role in shap­ing the pupils’ fu­tures.

The Na­tion­al Lot­ter­ies Con­trol Board (NL­CB) is de­fend­ing its poli­cies amid mount­ing crit­i­cism from agents over new fi­nan­cial mea­sures, which some say are dri­ving them out of busi­ness.

With po­lice un­able to gath­er enough ev­i­dence to bring charges in the al­leged bul­ly­ing-re­lat­ed death of St Stephen’s Col­lege stu­dent Jay­den Lalchan, his fam­i­ly is now grap­pling with an in­ten­si­fied sense of grief.

A 35-year-old man is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a High Court Mas­ter to­day charged with the mur­der of Po­lice Con­sta­ble Kr­ish­na Ba­na­har.   

Two of T&T’s most re­spect­ed econ­o­mists, for­mer min­is­ter of fi­nance Wen­dell Mot­t­ley and for­mer Cen­tral Bank gov­er­nor Eu­ric Bobb, are call­ing for a re­turn of the man­aged flota­tion of the TT dol­lar that was first in­tro­duced in April 1993.

Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has ac­cused state-owned HDC, which falls un­der Hous­ing Min­is­ter Camille Robin­son-Reg­is, of re­ceiv­ing a po­lit­i­cal di­rec­tive to evict cus­tomers sup­port­ing can­di­dates seek­ing lead­er­ship change in the PNM.

Dur­ing a UNC town hall meet­ing at the Na­pari­ma Au­di­to­ri­um on Mon­day evening, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said while a gen­er­al elec­tion will not be held on De­cem­ber 9, a de­ci­sion on a pos­si­ble De­cem­ber 16 elec­tion date could be made by next week­end.

A war of words has erupt­ed be­tween the PNM’s nom­i­nee for Ch­agua­nas East, Richie Sookhai, and the present MP for the area, the UNC’s Van­dana Mo­hit over the rep­re­sen­ta­tion con­stituents have been re­ceiv­ing.

Chaos erupt­ed at a spe­cial statu­to­ry meet­ing of the Siparia Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion on Mon­day as of­fi­cials launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to miss­ing ma­te­ri­als from a cor­po­ra­tion stock­pile.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly will cut over­seas trav­el ex­pens­es as part of a broad­er ini­tia­tive to make nec­es­sary “sac­ri­fices” in or­der to man­age bud­get con­straints.