The En­er­gy Min­istry has ap­proved a farm-in to Block Trinidad and To­ba­go Ul­tra Deep-1 (TTUD-1) by ma­jor Amer­i­can en­er­gy com­pa­ny Oc­ci­den­tal Pe­tro­le­um Cor­po­ra­tion (Oxy), says Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

Young men in Les Coteaux, To­ba­go, say they are be­com­ing rest­less, as they now feel for­got­ten and ne­glect­ed by the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA).

Ste­fan O’Brien was found not guilty by a nine-mem­ber ju­ry be­fore High Court Judge Sherene Mur­ray-Bai­ley at the end of his tri­al at the Hall of Jus­tice in Port-of-Spain last Wednes­day. 

A 26-year-old Pa­lo Seco man is in po­lice cus­tody as in­ves­ti­ga­tors con­tin­ue prob­ing the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the death of 12-year-old Mer­cedez Layne, whose body was dis­cov­ered in Erin on Sun­day morn­ing, just hours af­ter she was re­port­ed miss­ing.