Ex­perts work­ing to re­solve an elec­tri­cal prob­lem at St Patrick’s New­town Girls’ RC School say the in­sti­tu­tion is ex­pect­ed to re­open on Mon­day, once re­pairs are com­plet­ed as sched­uled.

The Me­dia As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (MATT) is call­ing on News­day’s man­age­ment to be open and trans­par­ent with its em­ploy­ees fol­low­ing the com­pa­ny’s clo­sure.

The two fam­i­lies left home­less af­ter a fire that claimed the life of a pen­sion­er on Pic­ton Road, Laven­tille, on Wednes­day, will be housed in tem­po­rary ac­com­mo­da­tions for the fore­see­able fu­ture.

Homi­cide de­tec­tives are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the death of 63-year-old Ramesh Lal­be­har­ry af­ter an au­top­sy sug­gest­ed he may have been beat­en, de­spite ini­tial re­ports that he fell from a co­conut tree.

Barataria po­lice are search­ing for two men who al­leged­ly raped an 18-year-old Venezue­lan woman in the yard of an aban­doned house on Tues­day night.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed a 49-year-old man from Point Fortin on Tues­day af­ter un­cov­er­ing an al­leged cannabis cul­ti­va­tion op­er­a­tion at his home.

What ap­peared to be an act of kind­ness turned in­to a rob­bery, when a mo­torist was held up at gun­point af­ter stop­ping to change a flat tyre along the high­way near La Brea on Wednes­day.

Venezue­lan op­po­si­tion leader María Co­ri­na Macha­do said she pre­sent­ed her No­bel Peace Prize medal to Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump on Thurs­day, “as a recog­ni­tion for his unique com­mit­ment with our free­dom.”

Po­lice seized more than $8.6 mil­lion worth of cannabis dur­ing an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in the Port of Spain Di­vi­sion on Wednes­day 14 Jan­u­ary 2026.

One sus­pect was ar­rest­ed fol­low­ing a po­lice sting op­er­a­tion con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers at­tached to the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Rob­bery and Lar­ce­ny Mo­tor Ve­hi­cle Unit on Wednes­day.

Troops from sev­er­al Eu­ro­pean coun­tries con­tin­ued to ar­rive in Green­land on Thurs­day in a show of sup­port for Den­mark as talks be­tween rep­re­sen­ta­tives of Den­mark, Green­land and the U.S. high­light­ed “fun­da­men­tal dis­agree­ment” over the fu­ture of the Arc­tic is­land.

The Me­dia As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (MATT) is call­ing on News­day’s man­age­ment to be open and trans­par­ent with its work­ers fol­low­ing the com­pa­ny’s clo­sure.