Sev­er­al lo­cal and re­gion­al flights head­ing to North Amer­i­can des­ti­na­tions last night were forced to re­turn to their ports of ori­gin as falling de­bris from an ex­plod­ed SpaceX Star­ship forced the clo­sure of air­spaces.

Car­ni­val 2025 is ex­pect­ed to cost tax­pay­ers more than $140 mil­lion, Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) chair­man Win­ston Pe­ters has con­firmed. How­ev­er, in an in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Pe­ters said de­spite the sub­stan­tial bud­get, the NCC will not be in­creas­ing prize amounts for Car­ni­val com­pe­ti­tions.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a so­cial me­dia video that pur­port­ed­ly shows a three-year-old end­ing the life of a pup­py. Yes­ter­day, the TTPS said it had tak­en steps to iden­ti­fy where the video was tak­en and con­tact the par­ents or guardians of the tod­dler.

An in­ves­ti­ga­tion has been launched in­to the death of a 43-year-old work­er who was crushed by a Ju­nior Sam­my ce­ment truck at the com­pa­ny’s Clax­ton Bay work­site yes­ter­day.

Three of­fi­cials of Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed and Land and Ma­rine Con­tract­ing Ser­vices Lim­it­ed (LM­CS) and the com­pa­nies have been giv­en over three months to de­cide how they want 15 charges un­der the Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health (OSH) Act re­lat­ed to an in­ci­dent in 2022, which claimed the lives of four LM­CS divers, de­ter­mined.

The Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) has re­ceived 14 re­ports of mis­con­duct against po­lice of­fi­cers since the State of Emer­gency (SoE), was de­clared in this coun­try at the end of last year.

Po­lice con­duct­ed an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in Point Fortin which tar­get­ed a man de­scribed by of­fi­cers as a pri­or­i­ty of­fend­er.

A 75-year-old man and his four wives were tied up and robbed by ban­dits at their Tabaquite home on Tues­day. 

Women and teenagers are among 50 peo­ple ar­rest­ed in To­ba­go dur­ing the State of Emer­gency (SoE) op­er­a­tions since it be­gan on De­cem­ber 30. 

The ta­bles were turned on three ban­dits who end­ed up run­ning for their lives dur­ing a home in­va­sion in Palmyra on Wednes­day. 

Weeks af­ter he an­nounced his plan to re­tire this year, Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley bid farewell to the me­dia at a mix­er at Bal­isi­er House, Port-of-Spain, on Wednes­day night. It was where he al­so paid trib­ute to me­dia stal­wart Jones P Madeira, who was laid to rest yes­ter­day.

At least ten peo­ple have sub­mit­ted let­ters of con­sent to be nom­i­nat­ed as the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) can­di­date for the Mal­abar/Mau­si­ca seat (for­mer­ly the D’Abadie/O’Meara) con­stituen­cy held by MP Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian, who died last month in a fire at her Ari­ma home.