The Caribbean As­so­ci­a­tion for Fem­i­nist Re­search and Ac­tion, Trinidad and To­ba­go (CAFRA TT) has ex­pressed con­cern over the ar­rest of ac­tivist Alyssa Phillip dur­ing Labour Day cel­e­bra­tions in Fyz­abad, de­scrib­ing the in­ci­dent as a trou­bling de­vel­op­ment for free­dom of ex­pres­sion and as­sem­bly.

A Mara­bel­la busi­ness is count­ing loss­es of al­most US$50,000 af­ter thieves broke in­to its ware­house and stole thou­sands of brass com­po­nents over the long week­end.

A 34-year-old man has been charged with rob­bery with vi­o­lence fol­low­ing an at­tack in St Julien Vil­lage, Princes Town, ear­li­er this month.

An anx­ious Williamsville fam­i­ly is plead­ing for the safe re­turn of miss­ing busi­ness­man Kelvin Sama­roo af­ter his sil­ver Nis­san Almera was found aban­doned on a lone­ly road in Bar­rack­pore days af­ter he dis­ap­peared.

Al­most a year af­ter his death, pi­o­neer­ing Caribbean jour­nal­ist Rick­ey Singh has re­mained a pow­er­ful pres­ence in hemi­spher­ic me­dia cir­cles, as lead­ing jour­nal­ists gath­ered on the mar­gins of the 56th OAS Gen­er­al As­sem­bly in Pana­ma on Mon­day to dis­cuss a new ini­tia­tive bear­ing his name.

The Port of Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion will host its an­nu­al City Day Pa­rade to­mor­row as part of cel­e­bra­tions mark­ing 112 years of ser­vice, uni­ty and ex­cel­lence.

Cris­tiano Ronal­do be­came the first play­er to score in six dif­fer­ent World Cup tour­na­ments on Tues­day, get­ting a goal in the sixth minute of Por­tu­gal’s match against Uzbek­istan.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a bur­glary at the home of the Chief of De­fence Staff (CDS), Com­modore Don Po­lo, which oc­curred last Fri­day.

A men­tal­ly ill man was shot and killed by po­lice on Mon­day evening af­ter he at­tacked an of­fi­cer with a knife.

The Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion in­ter­cept­ed a ship­ment con­tain­ing mar­i­jua­na and a firearm dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion at a Cus­toms Bond­ed Area in Port of Spain on Mon­day.

A re­searcher at The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (The UWI), St Au­gus­tine Cam­pus, has co-au­thored what the uni­ver­si­ty de­scribes as a land­mark study ex­am­in­ing how In­do-Caribbean peo­ple in Guyana and Trinidad and To­ba­go de­fine pos­i­tive ag­ing.

Mem­bers of the Unit­ed States Army and the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force (TTDF) have been par­tic­i­pat­ed in a joint mil­i­tary train­ing ex­er­cise aimed at en­hanc­ing med­ical pre­pared­ness and op­er­a­tional ef­fec­tive­ness in chal­leng­ing en­vi­ron­ments, the US mil­i­tary has said.