Even as the Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice main­tains that cur­rent dry con­di­tions are typ­i­cal for this time of year, the Fire Ser­vice As­so­ci­a­tion is call­ing for stronger en­force­ment of fire pre­ven­tion laws as fire­fight­ers con­tend with fre­quent bush­fires across the coun­try.

De­spite a lack of Gov­ern­ment sup­port for the 2026 Point Fortin Bor­ough Day cel­e­bra­tions, May­or Clyde James says the fes­tiv­i­ties will go on as he awaits a meet­ing with Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen on Tues­day.

While most peo­ple in Trinidad will be re­turn­ing to work on Tues­day af­ter the long East­er week­end, in To­ba­go the fes­tiv­i­ties will con­tin­ue as al­most a cen­tu­ry of tra­di­tion will be on dis­play at the an­nu­al Buc­coo Goat and Crab Race Fes­ti­val at the Buc­coo In­te­grat­ed Fa­cil­i­ty.

Deputy Chief Scout Ker­wyn Gar­cia host­ed the first overnight Scout camp at Pres­i­dent’s House from March 31 to April 1.

Two men were ar­rest­ed and a firearm and nar­cotics seized dur­ing po­lice ex­er­cis­es in the West­ern and East­ern Di­vi­sions on Fri­day.

A 69-year-old mon­ey lender was beat­en by ban­dits af­ter an­swer­ing the door to a young woman on Thurs­day night.

Po­lice are once again urg­ing the pub­lic to be wary of scams where peo­ple are asked to de­posit mon­ey to strangers in ex­change for items ad­ver­tised as be­ing for sale, af­ter a 30-year-old phar­ma­cist was tricked out of $8000.

Tragedy marred the open­ing of the East­er In­ter­na­tion­al Grand Prix last night as vet­er­an rid­er Collin Wil­son died fol­low­ing a freak ac­ci­dent at Skin­ner Park, San Fer­nan­do.

A po­lice of­fi­cer is in in­ten­sive care af­ter be­ing shot while re­spond­ing to a re­port of an armed man at Turn­ing Point along La For­tune Road, La Ro­maine, on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

Sen­a­tors have paid trib­ute to for­mer In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor Stephen Creese, de­scrib­ing him as a man whose life em­bod­ied the very essence of pub­lic ser­vice and who left an un­de­ni­able lega­cy of na­tion­al con­tri­bu­tion.

Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Sean Sobers says T&T has se­cured the sup­port of more than 100 coun­tries, in­clud­ing Cari­com states, in its bid for a non-per­ma­nent seat on the Unit­ed Na­tions Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil (UN­SC).

The Court of Ap­peal has or­dered a sec­ond re-sen­tenc­ing for a St James man con­vict­ed of rap­ing and mur­der­ing a four-year-old girl as a teenag­er, af­ter pre­vi­ous­ly es­cap­ing the manda­to­ry death penal­ty.