Chaos erupt­ed at a spe­cial statu­to­ry meet­ing of the Siparia Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion on Mon­day as of­fi­cials launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to miss­ing ma­te­ri­als from a cor­po­ra­tion stock­pile.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly will cut over­seas trav­el ex­pens­es as part of a broad­er ini­tia­tive to make nec­es­sary “sac­ri­fices” in or­der to man­age bud­get con­straints.

Flood­wa­ters surged across the Pe­nal/Debe re­gion yes­ter­day, prompt­ing lo­cal au­thor­i­ties to de­clare a dis­as­ter zone as re­lent­less rain­fall sub­merged roads, left res­i­dents strand­ed, and forced stu­dents to scram­ble for emer­gency trans­porta­tion.

Res­i­dents of sev­er­al ar­eas in T&T were tak­en by sur­prise yes­ter­day as freak storms and heavy rains wreaked hav­oc in a num­ber of com­mu­ni­ties, top­pling trees, rip­ping off roofs, and caus­ing se­vere flood­ing.

Ne­go­ti­a­tions be­gan in earnest yes­ter­day fol­low­ing a de­layed adop­tion of the agen­da at the Unit­ed Na­tions Cli­mate Change Con­fer­ence (COP29) tak­ing place in Baku, Azer­bai­jan.

A po­lice of­fi­cer as­signed to the In­ter-Agency Task Force and liv­ing at Green­vale, La Hor­quet­ta, was forced to open fire on two men as they at­tempt­ed to steal his car yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Min­utes af­ter steal­ing a car be­long­ing to a li­cens­ing of­fi­cer, who had stopped to pur­chase fruits in Ch­agua­nas on Mon­day af­ter­noon, a ban­dit was held af­ter he crashed the ve­hi­cle a short dis­tance away.

Fif­teen years af­ter Michael “Boy Boy” Mad­er was gunned down, a High Court judge has sen­tenced a man to death by hang­ing for his mur­der.

Due to in­creas­ing crime, the man­age­ment team at the pop­u­lar eatery Pap­py’s—Bri­an’s Frick­en Chick­en has de­cid­ed to re­duce their op­er­at­ing hours by one hour on Fri­days and Sat­ur­days at their Wood­brook branch.

Pres­i­dent of the Sea­men and Wa­ter­front Work­ers Trade Union Michael An­nisette has warned that work­ers at the Scar­bor­ough Port are pre­pared to strike again if promis­es to have un­re­solved is­sues fixed are not kept. 

To­day, the Par­lia­ment’s Pub­lic Ac­counts Com­mit­tee (PAC) will meet at 10 am to re­view the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al’s re­port on the 2023 pub­lic ac­counts and a sub­se­quent spe­cial re­port.

The Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Ad­min­is­tra­tion an­nounced Tues­day that it will pro­hib­it U.S. air­lines from fly­ing to Haiti for 30 days af­ter gangs shot two planes and the Unit­ed Na­tions will tem­porar­i­ly sus­pend flights to Port-au-Prince, lim­it­ing hu­man­i­tar­i­an aid com­ing in­to the coun­try.