A for­eign jour­nal­ist be­lieves in­for­ma­tion on cell phones, which may have been aboard a mys­tery boat found off the coast of Ma­yaro on Sat­ur­day, could have been used to find out more about the dead peo­ple in the ves­sel.

T&T Po­lice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dent (ASP) Gideon Dick­son has been giv­en the all-clear to pur­sue a law­suit over not be­ing con­sid­ered for the po­si­tion of Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er be­cause he did not have the req­ui­site post-grad­u­ate qual­i­fi­ca­tions.

A rob­bery in down­town Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day end­ed with the death of a sus­pect­ed ban­dit, af­ter his would-be vic­tim gained the up­per hand and shot him sev­er­al times.

De­spite fre­quent dis­putes, of­ten fu­elled by al­co­hol, neigh­bours and rel­a­tives of Michael and Suni­ta Ram nev­er ex­pect­ed a dead­ly out­come.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young’s im­pend­ing ac­ces­sion to the role of prime min­is­ter has been met with im­mense pride by mem­bers of the Chi­na So­ci­ety.

Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots leader Wat­son Duke has in­vit­ed To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Sec­re­tary Tashia Bur­ris to “come back home” to the par­ty. His in­vi­ta­tion came fol­low­ing a heart­felt re­flec­tion from Bur­ris on the an­niver­sary of her se­lec­tion as the PDP’s can­di­date for To­ba­go West for the 2020 gen­er­al elec­tion.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Mi­nor­i­ty Leader Kelvon Mor­ris has called on Tourism Sec­re­tary Tashia Bur­ris to “re­sign from her po­si­tion in dis­grace,” af­ter ac­cus­ing her of false­ly claim­ing she sub­mit­ted in­for­ma­tion re­gard­ing the pri­vate pro­mot­er in­volved in the $9.3 mil­lion To­ba­go Rhythm & Soul Fes­ti­val.

The old­er sis­ter of 19-year-old Justin Thomas has ac­cept­ed the fact that he drowned on Sun­day at Sobo Beach in Pa­lo Seco.

The Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) is cau­tion­ing cit­i­zens that while the Gov­ern­ment has in­di­cat­ed there may be no elec­tric­i­ty rate hike this year, an in­crease could be on the hori­zon should the ad­min­is­tra­tion se­cure an­oth­er term in of­fice.

T&T Postal Cor­po­ra­tion (TTPost) gen­er­al man­ag­er George Alex­is is urg­ing that good sense pre­vail in the con­tin­u­ing wage ne­go­ti­a­tions and be­tween the state-owned com­pa­ny and the T&T Postal Work­ers’ Union.

Amidst the grief and pain of los­ing their loved one, Fr Paul Bousi­gnac is call­ing on the rel­a­tives of Shari­da Ali to re­mem­ber their re­spon­si­bil­i­ty in im­prov­ing so­ci­ety in the face of wors­en­ing crime and vi­o­lence.

A dis­abled man is thank­ful that he has a home again af­ter suc­cess­ful­ly ap­peal­ing a pre­vi­ous court rul­ing fol­low­ing a dis­pute over ac­cess to his de­ceased step­moth­er’s prop­er­ty near Store Bay in To­ba­go.