An ex­ten­sive mul­ti-agency res­cue op­er­a­tion was un­der­way in the Lala­ja South Road area, off the Ari­ma–Blan­chisseuse Road last evening, af­ter 40-year-old Faiyyad Ho­sein, of Tabaquite Road, Rio Claro, suf­fered a frac­tured right fe­mur while rap­pelling down a se­ries of wa­ter­falls ear­li­er yes­ter­day.

The Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) has re­voked the ap­point­ment of di­rec­tor Dr Ah­mad Khan, a mere four months af­ter he was in­stalled on the board of the en­er­gy com­pa­ny.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing an in­ci­dent where a 17-year-old girl was al­leged­ly kid­napped and raped by a PH taxi dri­ver on her way to school on Fri­day.

The law­suit against the Catholic Church, St Do­minic’s Chil­dren’s Home, and the State will face its first hur­dle to­day as the mat­ter goes be­fore Jus­tice Car­ol Gob­in to de­ter­mine whether the mat­ter is too old to pur­sue.

Chief Jus­tice Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh has been asked to con­sid­er im­ple­ment­ing a mon­i­tor­ing mech­a­nism when a com­mit­tee is ap­point­ed by a court to ad­min­is­ter the af­fairs of a per­son suf­fer­ing from a men­tal ill­ness. 

Dozens of peo­ple gath­ered yes­ter­day at the Brun­ton Av­enue, Diego Mar­tin home of the late Par­manan “Pan­cho” Yarna to pay their fi­nal re­spects and re­turn the warmth he shared with them at his Port-of-Spain snack­ettes, to his griev­ing loved ones.

Di­ef­fen­thaller was known for her ground­break­ing lo­cal soap opera West­wood Park, which ran for six sea­sons and was syn­di­cat­ed across the Caribbean re­gion, North Amer­i­ca, the UK and parts of Africa.

A thou­sand pounds of tilapia feed is des­tined for Ja­maica, as a lo­cal com­pa­ny, We­FeedTT, has teamed up with the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture and the Con­cerned Mus­lims of Trinidad and To­ba­go to send a ma­jor ship­ment of re­lief sup­plies to Ja­maica, fol­low­ing the dev­as­ta­tion re­cent­ly ex­pe­ri­enced there.

A Debe man is now in crit­i­cal con­di­tion af­ter at­tempt­ing to res­cue his five-year-old grand­son af­ter a fire broke out in their home at Con­go Vil­lage, Ra­mai Trace, Debe.

A Tabaquite fam­i­ly is call­ing on the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) to ur­gent­ly re­lo­cate a chick­en farm built di­rect­ly op­po­site their home—an op­er­a­tion they say has left them ill, iso­lat­ed, and liv­ing in “prison-like” con­di­tions for years.

Min­is­ter of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment, Kennedy Swarats­ingh, who al­so over­sees en­vi­ron­men­tal mat­ters, has held dis­cus­sions with of­fi­cials from the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates (UAE) that could lead to cli­mate fi­nanc­ing for sev­er­al lo­cal projects.

Six hun­dred young peo­ple were in­duct­ed in­to the 4H Youth De­vel­op­ment Pro­gramme on Fri­day dur­ing a sim­ple but mean­ing­ful cer­e­mo­ny at the NCIC Na­gar, Ch­agua­nas. Stu­dents from schools across Trinidad proud­ly turned out in their 4H uni­forms, each re­ceiv­ing a cer­tifi­cate and an of­fi­cial 4H pin to mark their en­try in­to the or­gan­i­sa­tion.