A hip-hop su­per­star beef was cranked up an­oth­er notch Wednes­day when Drake sued Uni­ver­sal Mu­sic Group for defama­tion over ri­val Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us.”

Of­fi­cers at­tached to the High­way Pa­trol Unit seized over $1.7 mil­lion worth of cannabis dur­ing what they thought was a rou­tine traf­fic ex­er­cise in Ch­agua­nas yes­ter­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is seek­ing the pub­lic’s as­sis­tance lo­cat­ing 16-year-old Chris­t­ian Houl­der. Chris­t­ian, who lives at Ama­roos­ingh Street, Long­denville, was last seen on Jan­u­ary 13th and was re­port­ed miss­ing to the Long­denville Po­lice Post the next day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of Com­merce (TT Cham­ber) has re­spond­ed to the gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to ex­tend the State of Emer­gency (SOE) by three months, high­light­ing the im­por­tance of en­sur­ing safe­ty while ad­dress­ing crime holis­ti­cal­ly.

Is­rael and Hamas agreed to a cease­fire deal, me­di­a­tors an­nounced Wednes­day, paus­ing a dev­as­tat­ing 15-month war in the Gaza Strip and rais­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ty of wind­ing down the dead­liest and most de­struc­tive fight­ing be­tween the bit­ter en­e­mies.

The Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty has con­firmed re­ceiv­ing the fi­nal re­port on the trag­ic fire that claimed the lives of Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment and Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion, Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian, 48, her 25-year-old daugh­ter Xi­anne, and six-year-old son Je­si­ah. 

The in­fla­tion rate stayed un­changed in De­cem­ber 2024 at the 0.5 per­cent rate that was record­ed the pre­vi­ous month, says the Cen­tral Sta­tis­ti­cal Of­fice (CSO) in its lat­est Con­sumer Price In­dex Re­port.

A 61-year-old Laven­tille man was ar­rest­ed in re­la­tion to a break-in at a fur­ni­ture store in down­town Port of Spain ear­ly on Tues­day morn­ing.

The Catholic Board of Ed­u­ca­tion (CBE) has con­firmed that a ninth-grade stu­dent at Aquinas Col­lege has died af­ter col­laps­ing dur­ing a phys­i­cal ed­u­ca­tion class.

When the Pal­isades Fire broke out in Los An­ge­les last Tues­day, Hol­ly­wood’s awards sea­son was in full swing. The Gold­en Globes had tran­spired less than 48 hours ear­li­er and a se­ries of splashy awards ban­quets fol­lowed in the days af­ter.

The In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank (IDB) says projects from four Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) coun­tries have been se­lect­ed to har­ness the po­ten­tial of sar­gas­sum as a re­source for var­i­ous in­dus­tries.

Mil­lions of South­ern Cal­i­for­ni­ans were on edge as a fi­nal round of dan­ger­ous fire weath­er was fore­cast for the re­gion on Wednes­day, along with a rare warn­ing of a “Par­tic­u­lar­ly Dan­ger­ous Sit­u­a­tion” for an area near where two mas­sive blazes have killed at least 25 and de­stroyed thou­sands of homes.