Less than 24 hours af­ter tor­na­do-like winds tore through sec­tions of West­moor­ings North and sur­round­ing com­mu­ni­ties, the Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment con­firmed that cleanup and restora­tion works were com­plet­ed and pow­er was re­stored to near­ly all af­fect­ed house­holds.

Struc­tur­al en­gi­neer and pres­i­dent of the As­so­ci­a­tion of Pro­fes­sion­al En­gi­neers of Trinidad and To­ba­go (APETT), Lendel Bethelmy, is urg­ing cit­i­zens to pay close at­ten­tion to the con­struc­tion and struc­tur­al in­tegri­ty of their homes.

Over the past decade, Trinidad and To­ba­go’s na­tion­al bud­gets have fluc­tu­at­ed with chang­ing oil and gas prices, rev­enue short­falls, and per­sis­tent fis­cal deficits. Against this back­drop, To­ba­go’s al­lo­ca­tion from the na­tion­al bud­get has re­mained a steady point of fo­cus.

The To­ba­go arm of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce has called for Mon­day’s na­tion­al Bud­get to fo­cus on key ar­eas that will un­lock the is­land’s eco­nom­ic po­ten­tial.

A 37-year-old man was shot and killed fol­low­ing an ar­gu­ment be­tween his friend and an­oth­er man over vis­i­ta­tion of their 11-month-old child.

As­sis­tant Sec­re­tary in the Di­vi­sion of Tourism, Cul­ture, An­tiq­ui­ties and Trans­porta­tion, Niall George, has called on To­bag­o­ni­ans to do their part to keep ca­lyp­so alive as the is­land starts its cel­e­bra­tions for Ca­lyp­so His­to­ry Month.

A 70-year-old Diego Mar­tin man fright­ened away a ban­dit who tried to rob him on Tues­day morn­ing.

As con­sul­ta­tions on the pro­posed stand-your-ground leg­is­la­tion con­tin­ue, for­mer Point Fortin may­or Ab­don Ma­son is urg­ing both the Gov­ern­ment and Op­po­si­tion to put aside their po­lit­i­cal dif­fer­ences in the in­ter­est of the na­tion.

Pe­nal po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the death of a one-year, eight-month-old ba­by girl at a home in Pe­nal on Tues­day morn­ing. The ba­by and her two sib­lings were left in the care of her grand­moth­er over the week­end.

Two men were de­nied bail when they ap­peared in court this week, charged joint­ly with pos­ses­sion of cannabis for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing.

A chop­ping and a se­ries of shoot­ings led to the deaths of six peo­ple in sep­a­rate in­ci­dents across Trinidad hours apart on Tues­day, as po­lice from three dif­fer­ent di­vi­sions are con­tin­u­ing in­quiries.

Ten years af­ter po­lice of­fi­cer Mont­gomery Guy was killed, two peo­ple have been freed of his mur­der.