Ques­tions are be­ing raised about the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly’s (THA) in­ten­tion to ac­quire the Palms Vil­las Re­sort near the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, for use as an on­col­o­gy cen­tre.

The To­ba­go Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (TRHA) and the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly’s (THA) Health Sec­re­tary have come un­der fire for de­lays in de­liv­er­ing new am­bu­lances, af­ter spend­ing over one mil­lion rent­ing ve­hi­cles this year.

Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds yes­ter­day sought to as­sure the pub­lic that the po­lice, and, by ex­ten­sion his min­istry, are work­ing to ad­dress the crime sit­u­a­tion and there have been small suc­cess­es.

As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (South/Cen­tral) Wayne Mys­tar has called on law­mak­ers to clas­si­fy home in­va­sion as a dis­tinct crim­i­nal of­fence and im­ple­ment harsh­er penal­ties.

The Christ­mas hat which Hapi­zo­ol Bud­hooram wore be­fore he was knocked down in a hit-and-run ac­ci­dent was found near his body on Thurs­day night.

A Cen­tral busi­ness­man was shot in the head and died while be­hind the wheel of his truck, mo­ments af­ter he ar­rived at a con­struc­tion site on Thurs­day with mon­ey to pay work­ers.

A Barataria man was shot mul­ti­ple times on Thurs­day night, af­ter be­ing called out of his house. He was lat­er found dead in a near­by drain.

Min­utes af­ter Akeem Greene stopped his car in La Ro­main, a gun­man ap­proached and opened fire, killing him in­stant­ly.

A warn­ing has been is­sued to the Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) Pres­i­dent Gen­er­al An­cel Ro­get to com­ply with the in­junc­tion T&TEC ob­tained from the In­dus­tri­al Court.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) has fore­cast a wet­ter than nor­mal dry sea­son for 2025.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly is pre­pared to take the Gov­ern­ment to court over its fail­ure to grant a full min­ing li­cence for the is­land’s Stud­ley Park Quar­ry, ac­cord­ing to THA Sec­re­tary of In­fra­struc­ture, Quar­ries and Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Trevor James.

Days af­ter a com­mer­cial flight was al­most hit by a drone while prepar­ing to land at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan says the laws sur­round­ing drones may need to be stricter.