Bar­ba­dos’ pur­chase of the Banyan Archives is now be­ing de­scribed as the sto­ry of how Trinidad and To­ba­go bun­gled a crit­i­cal cul­tur­al re­source.

Cul­tur­al ac­tivist Er­rol Fabien has called on cit­i­zens to help pre­serve Gayelle Records fol­low­ing the ac­qui­si­tion of the Banyan archive by the gov­ern­ment of Bar­ba­dos.

In a des­per­ate bid for sur­vival, new­ly­wed pri­ma­ry school teacher Kri­an­na Var­sha Roop­nar­ine is fight­ing can­cer while strug­gling to hold on to the ca­reer she loves.

Amid claims of ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties, new­ly elect­ed vice pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Cross So­ci­ety (TTRCS), Ed­ward Mood­ie, says con­cerns raised dur­ing the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s elec­tion on Sat­ur­day will be ad­dressed. He al­so de­nies that the elec­tions were flawed.

A large group of for­mer Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice of­fi­cers (SRPs) is con­sid­er­ing bring­ing con­tempt of court pro­ceed­ings against Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro, over the fail­ure of his of­fice to abide by a court or­der for them to be paid salary ar­rears af­ter they were ab­sorbed in­to the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) in 2009.

Po­lice re­port­ed that around 4 am, Arnold Singh, of Pe­ters­field, was out­side his home when two men, one armed with a gun, the oth­er a cut­lass, ac­cost­ed him and forced him in­side.

A sin­gle stab wound to the neck led to the death of Sher­win Balka­ran, who was found bleed­ing at the road­side near his home ear­ly yes­ter­day.

The woman told po­lice she went to bed around 9 pm on Fri­day, and around 1.30 am, she awoke to find a Span­ish-speak­ing man armed with a knife in­side her bed­room.

Blue Basin/Bagatelle coun­cil­lor Ali­na Renn says she is work­ing to rec­ti­fy the is­sue of miss­ing man­hole cov­ers along the North Post Road in Diego Mar­tin.

The am­bas­sador to the Caribbean for the dis­put­ed ter­ri­to­ry of West­ern Sa­hara is urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment, and the wider Caribbean, to sup­port the Sahrawi peo­ple’s right to self-de­ter­mi­na­tion.

Amid claims of ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties, new­ly elect­ed vice pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Cross So­ci­ety (TTRCS), Ed­ward Mood­ie, says con­cerns raised dur­ing the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s elec­tion on Sat­ur­day will be ad­dressed. He al­so de­nied that the elec­tions were flawed.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed three men and seized two guns, as­sort­ed am­mu­ni­tion and drugs in sep­a­rate crime fight­ing ex­er­cis­es across the coun­try over the past 72 hours.