HOPE's po­lit­i­cal leader, Tim­o­thy Hamel-Smith says the par­ty is ramp­ing up ef­forts to forge al­liances ahead of the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers' As­so­ci­a­tion says it is cau­tious­ly op­ti­mistic about the pro­posed changes to the ed­u­ca­tion cur­ricu­lum, (through the Ed­u­ca­tion Min­istry), by prime min­is­ter-des­ig­nate Stu­art Young.

A 46-year-old man was beat­en and robbed of his car and valu­ables af­ter of­fer­ing a ride to a stranger in Diego Mar­tin ear­ly Wednes­day morn­ing.

Three peo­ple were robbed at gun­point in Mor­vant on Wednes­day af­ter re­spond­ing to a Face­book ad­ver­tise­ment for a car.

Two men ap­peared in the South Mas­ters Court yes­ter­day charged with tam­per­ing with a mo­tor ve­hi­cle.

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.