One of two women hit by a car while cross­ing a road in Point Fortin on Wednes­day suc­cumbed to her in­juries.

Af­ter get­ting the nod from the con­stituen­cy’s Women’s League, po­lit­i­cal an­a­lysts be­lieve Ka­reem Mar­celle has a gen­uine chance of be­ing the PNM’s choice to con­test the Laven­tille West seat in the next gen­er­al elec­tion.

Ca­lyp­so icon and mem­ber of the mu­si­cal Black­man fam­i­ly Ab­bi Black­man nar­row­ly es­caped a rob­bery at­tempt late Tues­day night in Mar­aval.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has an­nounced that sev­en stu­dents from T&T have been recog­nised among the top re­gion­al awardees for the 2024 Caribbean Ad­vanced Pro­fi­cien­cy Ex­am­i­na­tion (CAPE) and Caribbean Sec­ondary Ed­u­ca­tion Cer­tifi­cate (CSEC) ex­am­i­na­tions, as an­nounced by the Caribbean Ex­am­i­na­tions Coun­cil (CXC) yes­ter­day.

A man is in po­lice cus­tody fol­low­ing a rob­bery at Trot­ters Restau­rant on Mar­aval Road, Port-of-Spain, on Thurs­day night.

In a se­ries of re­cent an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions across T&T, the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) ar­rest­ed 12 sus­pects and seized sev­er­al firearms and a sig­nif­i­cant quan­ti­ty of nar­cotics, in­clud­ing co­caine val­ued at $19.2 mil­lion.

Busi­ness op­er­a­tors in Princes Town say they are scep­ti­cal about re­port­ing ex­tor­tion, de­spite mem­bers of the new­ly formed An­ti-Ex­tor­tion Unit vis­it­ing the area.

Joint po­lice and army pa­trols have start­ed in com­mer­cial dis­tricts in Ch­agua­nas to stem the rise in ex­tor­tion.

Fif­teen fam­i­lies at La Glo­ria Road in Mun­do Nue­vo, Tal­paro, may soon be cut off from the rest of T&T, as the on­ly ac­cess bridge to their homes is at risk of col­laps­ing due to its de­te­ri­o­rat­ing con­di­tion.

The Women in Ac­tion for the Needy and Des­ti­tute (WAND) Foun­da­tion has raised more than $500,000 in 2024 to as­sist the vul­ner­a­ble in this coun­try. This, pres­i­dent Aman­da Jar­dine said, ex­ceed­ed its half-a-mil­lion-dol­lar goal, and she aims to bring in more next year.

Em­ploy­ees of the Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (NP) are claim­ing that the com­pa­ny is un­sta­ble fol­low­ing the res­ig­na­tion of CEO Derek Luk Pat last week, af­ter be­ing at the helm for a year.

Cit­i­zens and busi­ness­es in T&T con­tin­ue to face more chal­lenges for for­eign ex­change as RBC be­came the lat­est com­mer­cial bank to cut its cred­it card spend­ing lim­it.