Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties, Mar­vin Gon­za­les is call­ing for a re­trac­tion from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Fire Ser­vice (TTFS) fol­low­ing their state­ment re­gard­ing the house fire that killed Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian, Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion, and her two chil­dren.

San Juan East Side Sym­pho­ny has been de­clared the win­ner of Sat­ur­day’s Panora­ma 2025 Na­tion­al Sin­gle Pan Band Fi­nals at Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah. 

As the in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to the cause of yes­ter­day’s blaze which claimed the lives of D’Abadie/O’Meara Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian and two of her chil­dren in Ari­ma, the pub­lic wants fire of­fi­cials to ac­count for their re­sponse, as they be­lieve the tragedy could have been avoid­ed.

Ix­i­ah Ju­lian, the el­dest son of D’Abadie/O’Meara MP Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian, was forced to jump out of a win­dow to es­cape the rag­ing fire that claimed the life of his 48-year-old moth­er, his six-year-old broth­er Je­si­ah, and 25-year-old sis­ter Xi­anne at the fam­i­ly’s home at Far­fan Street, Ari­ma, yes­ter­day.

Plan­ning Min­is­ter Pen­ne­lope Beck­les yes­ter­day sor­row­ful­ly re­mem­bered her “Ari­ma sis­ter,” MP Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian, as be­ing a bright light that in­spired every­one she en­coun­tered.

Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian was mourned be­yond par­ty lines by the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) “dis­si­dents”, Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA), Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) and First Wave Move­ment.

Qui­et scenes of grief and uni­ty were ev­i­dent at Cou­va on Mon­day af­ter­noon, as hun­dreds gath­ered to bid a som­bre farewell to Am­i­na Mo­hammed, a 68-year-old grand­moth­er whose life was cut short in a vi­o­lent home in­va­sion on Sat­ur­day evening.

Less than 48 hours af­ter a Val­sayn pen­sion­er was kid­napped on Sat­ur­day, he was res­cued un­harmed in an aban­doned house at Sec­ond Cale­do­nia, Mor­vant, yes­ter­day.

A cou­ple from St Joseph has par­tial­ly suc­ceed­ed in their bid to re­ceive com­pen­sa­tion af­ter their re­tain­ing wall and tank stand were dam­aged by a faulty Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) con­nec­tion in 2019.

Two po­lit­i­cal par­ties that have dis­tanced them­selves from any for­mal part­ner­ship with the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) are now con­sid­er­ing join­ing forces with the Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA). 

The In­dus­tri­al Court has grant­ed the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) an ex­ten­sion to the in­junc­tion against the Oil Field Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU).

A 40-year-old sec­ondary school teacher has been or­dered to stay ten feet away from her two sons, af­ter ap­pear­ing in court charged with sev­en counts of cru­el­ty against them.