Scrap Iron Deal­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTSI­DA) pres­i­dent Al­lan Fer­gu­son says he is ready to tie a hand­ker­chief around his head and go to “war” to save the lo­cal in­dus­try.

Dis­grun­tled res­i­dents of Wel­come Road North and Wel­come Road South, Cunu­pia, burned tyres in protest yes­ter­day to high­light, what they called, the wors­en­ing con­di­tions of roads in the Cen­tral com­mu­ni­ty.

A high-pro­file case in­volv­ing sev­en po­lice of­fi­cers ac­cused of ex­tort­ing busi­ness­men in San­gre Grande col­lapsed in the Port-of-Spain North A Court, with all charges against them dis­missed yes­ter­day. 

Po­lice of­fi­cers shot and killed one sus­pect, wound­ed an­oth­er, and ar­rest­ed a third af­ter an at­tempt­ed rob­bery of a wa­ter de­liv­ery truck on Aranguez Main Road yes­ter­day.

Ne­go­tia­tors con­tin­ued to grap­ple over text yes­ter­day at the Unit­ed Na­tions Cli­mate Change Con­fer­ence (COP29) in Baku, Azer­bai­jan, as cli­mate fi­nance re­mains the key item on the agen­da.

Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tary in the Min­istry of Gen­der and Child Af­fairs, Vi­jay Gan­gaper­sad, ex­pressed dis­ap­point­ment with Rhon­dall Fee­les, the founder and pres­i­dent of the Fa­thers As­so­ci­a­tion, for us­ing his In­ter­na­tion­al Men’s Day march as a plat­form to crit­i­cise Min­is­ter Ayan­na Web­ster-Roy.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are un­der­way in­to the mur­der of An­tho­ny “Tony Jack­ie” Seeri­ram, who was gunned down on Sun­day af­ter­noon at Church Street, Chick­land. 

Po­lice of­fi­cers shot and killed one sus­pect, wound­ed an­oth­er, and ar­rest­ed a third, af­ter an at­tempt­ed rob­bery of a wa­ter de­liv­ery truck on Aranguez Main Road on Mon­day af­ter­noon.

The Min­istry of Works and Trans­port has an­nounced up­dates to the De­mer­it Points Sys­tem un­der the Mo­tor Ve­hi­cles and Road Traf­fic (Amend­ment) Act, 2017, ef­fec­tive No­vem­ber 18, 2024.

A 24-year-old man re­ceived a two-year bond af­ter a San Fer­nan­do Mag­is­trate found him guilty of prae­di­al lar­ce­ny of­fences to­day. 

Ser­vice sta­tions op­er­at­ing un­der the Trinidad & To­ba­go Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um Mar­ket­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (NP) are ex­pect­ed to ben­e­fit from col­lab­o­ra­tive ef­forts be­tween NP and the Po­lice Ser­vice to im­prove se­cu­ri­ty at their op­er­a­tions.

Tourism Trinidad Lim­it­ed (TTL) has con­firmed that Trinidad is set to wel­come 20 cruise calls from 11 dif­fer­ent cruise lines for the new cruise sea­son—in­clud­ing six in­au­gur­al vis­its, which the tourism body de­scribes as “im­pres­sive”.