Deep with­in the wind­ing roads of Las Lo­mas, tucked away in a hum­ble abode on Savary Road, live 65-year-old De­o­ra­jie Ougar and her 88-year-old moth­er, Rook­min. On the sur­face, their life can seem nor­mal, but when you hear of the strug­gles they con­tin­ue to face, you would un­der­stand that life has not been so kind.

There was a no­tice­able de­crease in the at­ten­dance at yes­ter­day’s mil­i­tary pa­rade for the 2024 Na­tion­al Day of Re­mem­brance in Port-of Spain.

Three teenagers were in­jured dur­ing a shoot­ing along Ari­api­ta Av­enue, Wood­broook, yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Three men were ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with a rob­bery that took place at the Suarez Broth­ers Cir­cus, En­deav­our Av­enue, Ch­agua­nas, on Oc­to­ber 29.

Griev­ing rel­a­tives of 36-year-old Ter­ry Aaron are pray­ing that the per­pe­tra­tors who snuffed out his life and in­jured his cousin dur­ing a shoot­ing at a bar in their neigh­bour­hood will be brought to jus­tice.

With the sev­en-day shut­down of the Point Lisas De­sali­na­tion Plant com­menc­ing to­day, sev­er­al af­fect­ed res­i­dents in south Trinidad spent the week­end fill­ing up their wa­ter con­tain­ers and en­sur­ing that they have suf­fi­cient drink­ing wa­ter.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Kei­th Scot­land is call­ing for cool­er heads to pre­vail as there are claims of busi­ness­men want­i­ng to take mat­ters in­to their own hands in re­sponse to a surge in ex­tor­tions.

An ex-coast­guard of­fi­cer and his friend were bru­tal­ly chopped dur­ing a bar brawl in Siparia on Sat­ur­day.

Amidst re­cent un­prece­dent­ed cli­mate events which have left nu­mer­ous coun­tries grap­pling with dev­as­tat­ing loss of life and eco­nom­ic blows, Small Is­land De­vel­op­ing States (SIDS) are in­ten­si­fy­ing their call for a trans­for­ma­tive New Col­lec­tive Quan­ti­fied Fi­nance goal, the NC­QG, at COP29.

Barataria/San Juan MP Sad­dam Ho­sein is call­ing on At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Regi­nald Ar­mour, SC, to pub­licly dis­close the fees paid to at­tor­neys who rep­re­sent­ed the State dur­ing a re­cent hear­ing at the Privy Coun­cil in Lon­don.

The Falls at West­mall aims to cre­ate a wow fac­tor for every­one who walks through its doors with its pre­sen­ta­tion, The Mag­ic of the Falls. The theme is part of Christ­mas cel­e­bra­tions at the mall and kicked off last week with the bless­ing of the crèche and a live per­for­mance from singer Joel John.

De­spite calls from the In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF) for the Gov­ern­ment to end for­eign ex­change re­stric­tions, Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert in­sists that the Gov­ern­ment has main­tained its fixed for­eign ex­change regime to con­trol in­fla­tion.