The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion will be stag­ing an­oth­er of its ‘On the Pavers’ lunchtime con­certs on Fri­day—this time spot­light­ing Di­vali and East In­di­an cul­ture.

The Po­lice Ser­vice’s con­tin­ued crack­down on il­le­gal weapons has led to the ar­rest of three peo­ple and seizure of three firearms, along with quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion, dur­ing an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions yes­ter­day in the South­ern Di­vi­sion.

Vice Pres­i­dent Ka­mala Har­ris called Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump Wednes­day to con­grat­u­late him on his elec­tion vic­to­ry, a se­nior Har­ris aide said.

In Au­gust 2023, Air Cana­da axed plans to op­er­ate flights to Trinidad cit­ing crew short­ages. Now, just over a year lat­er, the Mon­tre­al-based car­ri­er is an­nounc­ing plans to re­sume flights be­tween Toron­to and Port of Spain come May 1st, 2025. Ac­cord­ing to a me­dia re­lease, the air­line will op­er­ate year-round 4x week­ly flights on Sun­days, Mon­days, Thurs­days, and Fri­days. AC984 de­parts Toron­to’s Pear­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port at 8 pm ar­riv­ing at Pi­ar­co Int’l Air­port at 1:35 am the next morn­ing. AC985 de­parts Port of Spain at 2:35 am, ar­riv­ing back in Toron­to at 8:25am. The air­line will use its Boe­ing 737 Max 8 fleet with 169 seats on the route and tick­ets are al­ready on sale.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ex­tend­ed her con­grat­u­la­tions to Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump on his re-elec­tion, say­ing it af­firms the progress, sta­bil­i­ty, and poli­cies that he cham­pi­oned in his first Pres­i­den­tial term.

Min­is­ter of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs, Dr. Amery Browne, has ex­tend­ed con­grat­u­la­tions to US Pres­i­dent Elect Don­ald Trump.

Re­ports say at around  6.15 pm of­fi­cers re­spond­ed to a re­port of a body ly­ing on the road­way at Fos­ter Queve­do.

The Copy­right Mu­sic Or­gan­i­sa­tion of T&T (COTT) has failed to suc­cess­ful­ly pros­e­cute its crim­i­nal copy­right in­fringe­ment com­plaint against a for­mer em­ploy­ee for al­leged­ly fail­ing to ob­tain a li­cence for a Car­ni­val fete in 2018. 

Around 3:00 am on Wednes­day, of­fi­cers from the Ma­yaro CID pro­ceed­ed to a gar­den camp ap­prox­i­mate­ly 150 feet along an agri­cul­tur­al ac­cess road off Food Crop Road, Dou­ble Bridge, Guayagua­yare Road, Ma­yaro, where Gabriel Hink­son, 39 years old, lived.

Po­lice of­fi­cers had to clear a path for ve­hi­cles go­ing in­to Trinidad Ce­ment Ltd (TCL) this morn­ing as re­tirees con­tin­ued their protest at the Clax­ton Bay-based plant this morn­ing.

Two weeks af­ter Cunu­pia busi­ness­man Su­vesh Ram­nar­ine was bun­dled in­to a black SUV by men pos­ing as po­lice of­fi­cers, he has been re­leased safe and un­harmed.

A po­lice of­fi­cer and an uniden­ti­fied man were killed dur­ing a shoot­ing out in Guapo this morn­ing. An­oth­er of­fi­cer was in­jured.