Gov­ern­ment is mov­ing clos­er to in­tro­duc­ing a pol­i­cy that will al­low com­mu­ni­ties to ap­ply for ‘gat­ed’ sta­tus as a mea­sure to pro­tect them­selves from crime.

A trail of a petro­chem­i­cal sub­stance has led fire of­fi­cials to sus­pect that a blaze which de­stroyed the ad­min­is­tra­tion block of St Pe­ter’s Pri­ma­ry School in Pointe-a-Pierre was de­lib­er­ate­ly set.

Aaron Fran­cois, fa­ther of six-year-old Jash­er Fran­cois, says his fam­i­ly will not be mak­ing any pub­lic state­ments at this time as the in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to his son’s death came to a close last Mon­day.

The Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC) and the Joint Trade Union Move­ment (JTUM) be­lieve Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar can up­hold her promise to pre­serve and ex­pand pub­lic sec­tor jobs.

The sound of solemn Hin­di bha­jans filled the JE Guides Fu­ner­al Home in San Fer­nan­do yes­ter­day, as fam­i­ly, friends and po­lit­i­cal lead­ers gath­ered to bid farewell to Dr Lenny Saith, a stal­wart of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) and one of its most en­dur­ing fig­ures.

A woman, whose ba­by died of birth com­pli­ca­tions less than a week af­ter be­ing de­liv­ered at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex in Mt Hope in March, has threat­ened to sue for med­ical neg­li­gence. 

A San­ta Cruz man died whilst be­ing treat­ed at hos­pi­tal, af­ter he was am­bushed and shot by four masked men at his home yes­ter­day morn­ing.

A woman was robbed of $3,000 in cash and a quan­ti­ty of jew­ellery on Wednes­day evening, min­utes af­ter leav­ing a casi­no in Port-of-Spain.

Kick-‘em-Jen­ny – the sub­ma­rine vol­cano lo­cat­ed be­tween Grena­da and the Grena­dine Is­land of Car­ri­a­cou has in­creased its seis­mic ac­tiv­i­ty ac­cord­ing to an ad­vi­so­ry from the Na­tion­al Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment Agency.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les to­day ex­tend­ed well wish­es to for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young fol­low­ing an eye pro­ce­dure.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Blind Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTB­WA) has called on Gov­ern­ment to en­act com­pre­hen­sive leg­is­la­tion to pro­tect the rights of per­sons with dis­abil­i­ties, as the coun­try marks its 63rd an­niver­sary of In­de­pen­dence.

Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) has signed a code­share agree­ment with Guade­loupe-based Air Caraïbes to of­fer flights to Paris’ Or­ly Air­port. Un­der the agree­ment, CAL will op­er­ate the re­gion­al legs to and from Mar­tinique and Guade­loupe, while Air Caraïbes will han­dle the transat­lantic ser­vice be­tween main­land France and Mar­tinique/Guade­loupe. The new ser­vice be­gins on Sep­tem­ber 2 and of­fers an al­ter­na­tive con­nec­tion to main­land Eu­rope.