TU­CO has ex­tend­ed the Na­tion­al Ca­lyp­so Monarch Com­pe­ti­tion reg­is­tra­tion dead­line to Thurs­day, Jan­u­ary 23, 2025, at 12:00 noon. This ex­ten­sion aims to pro­vide ca­lyp­so­ni­ans with ad­di­tion­al time to com­plete their reg­is­tra­tion.

The death toll in a month­s­long stand­off be­tween po­lice and min­ers trapped while work­ing il­le­gal­ly in an aban­doned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87, po­lice said Thurs­day. Au­thor­i­ties faced grow­ing anger and a pos­si­ble in­ves­ti­ga­tion over their ini­tial re­fusal to help the min­ers and in­stead “smoke them out” by cut­ting off their food sup­plies.

Hours af­ter the Postal Work­ers' Union said they re­ject­ed TT Post's 4% of­fer, TT Post is now say­ing the union failed to at­tend a sched­uled ne­go­ti­a­tion meet­ing to­day, de­spite hav­ing agreed to the date last month.

Of­fi­cers at­tached to the Point Fortin po­lice sta­tion seized a gun, am­mu­ni­tion and drugs dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise on Wednes­day.

Two es­tate con­sta­bles from the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) were in­volved in a road­side fight in Cou­va on Thurs­day af­ter­noon WASA and po­lice have con­firmed.

Dr James Fletch­er, the St Lu­cian who played a key role in draft­ing the Paris Agree­ment has been named CARI­COM’s cli­mate en­voy.

Anger mixed with tears at the bur­ial Thurs­day of one of the two jour­nal­ists killed in an at­tack last month by armed gan gs while cov­er­ing the gov­ern­ment’s abortive at­tempt to re­open Haiti’s largest pub­lic hos­pi­tal.

Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Postal Work­ers’ Union (TTP­WU), has re­ject­ed the TTPost’s wage of­fer for the 2014–2016 and 2017–2019 bar­gain­ing pe­ri­ods, call­ing it “far less than what we were ex­pect­ing.”

Po­lice of­fi­cers con­duct­ed sev­er­al an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions across Trinidad be­tween last Fri­day and Sat­ur­day, re­sult­ing in ar­rests and the seizure of il­le­gal items.

Ac­tivist Sofia Figueroa-Leon be­lieves that Nicolás Maduro will not “walk out” of the pres­i­den­cy of Venezuela, even af­ter the US De­part­ment of State in­creased its re­ward for in­for­ma­tion lead­ing to the ar­rest or con­vic­tion of the con­tro­ver­sial leader.

A T&T Reg­i­ment of­fi­cer has suc­ceed­ed in his law­suit over an ad­min­is­tra­tive er­ror that af­fect­ed his pro­mo­tion­al prospects.

Re­cent­ly as­signed As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (ACP) North-West and Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Richard Smith says he is will­ing to meet any chal­lenge of­fered giv­en his new ar­eas of re­spon­si­bil­i­ty.