Less than 24 hours af­ter po­lice of­fi­cers res­cued kid­napped pen­sion­er Za­hir Khan in Mor­vant, se­nior of­fi­cials as­sured they have not giv­en up the search for busi­ness­man Shashi Anand Ram­per­sad, who was grabbed three weeks ago and re­mains miss­ing.

Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan has de­nied claims of a back­log at the Port of Port-of-Spain, em­pha­sis­ing that op­er­a­tions are pro­ceed­ing as sched­uled.

Just two days af­ter Am­i­na Mo­hammed, 68, was mur­dered dur­ing a home in­va­sion in Cou­va, an­oth­er el­der­ly cit­i­zen has been at­tacked by ban­dits in his home.

A mag­ni­tude 7.3 earth­quake that struck off Van­u­atu killed at least 14 peo­ple, in­jured hun­dreds more and caused wide­spread dam­age across the South Pa­cif­ic is­land na­tion, res­cuers and of­fi­cials said ear­ly Wednes­day. Res­cuers worked through the night try­ing to reach some peo­ple yelling un­der the rub­ble.

The ex­ec­u­tive of T&T Fire Ser­vice will need to use a sta­tis­tics-dri­ven ap­proach to de­ter­mine whether there is a need for more than one fire sta­tion in the Bor­ough of Ari­ma.

The Women Par­lia­men­tar­i­ans of Trinidad and To­ba­go (WPTT) are among the most re­cent to pay trib­ute to their late col­league, Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for D'Abadie/O'Meara, Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian, who died on Mon­day in a house fire, along with two of her chil­dren.

Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary of the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment, Fos­ter Cum­mings, says the PNM lead­er­ship would de­cide on the fu­ture of the D’Abadie/O’Meara seat in due time.

“Her con­tri­bu­tions as a mo­ti­vat­ing teacher, hum­ble pub­lic ser­vant and role mod­el to the youth in her com­mu­ni­ty will al­ways be re­mem­bered…”

The 78-year-old re­tiree of Sat­nar­ine Trace, Pe­nal, was beat­en and robbed dur­ing a home in­va­sion on Mon­day. Just two days be­fore (on De­cem­ber 14), Aam­i­na Mo­hammed, 68, was mur­dered dur­ing a home in­va­sion in Cou­va. She was stabbed in the neck mul­ti­ple times with her kitchen knife. 

The Eu­ro­pean Union’s leg­is­la­ture on Tues­day cel­e­brat­ed the brav­ery and staunch re­sis­tance of Venezue­lan op­po­si­tion lead­ers Maria Co­ri­na Macha­do and Ed­mun­do González Ur­ru­tia while award­ing them the EU’s top hu­man rights ho­n­our, the Sakharov Prize.

Po­lice in Madi­son, Wis­con­sin, are try­ing to de­ter­mine what prompt­ed a 15-year-old stu­dent to open fire at a pri­vate Chris­t­ian school. The shoot­ing Mon­day was just days be­fore the win­ter break. A fel­low stu­dent and a teacher were killed. The shoot­er al­so died.

Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (DCP) Suzette Mar­tin will no longer be pros­e­cut­ed for dan­ger­ous dri­ving.