The Met Ser­vice has is­sued a yel­low lev­el ad­verse weath­er alert for Trinidad and To­ba­go from 9:20 am to­day, Sun­day 24 Au­gust 2025, un­til 5 pm on Mon­day 25 Au­gust 2025.

A for­mer qual­i­ty as­sur­ance in­spec­tor who was ex­posed to the tox­ic chem­i­cal ben­zene while work­ing on Shell T&T’s Dol­phin nat­ur­al gas plat­form has tak­en Shell and its con­trac­tor, Massy Wood Group, to the In­dus­tri­al Court. He ac­cus­es the com­pa­nies of putting his life at risk and end­ing his ca­reer in the oil and gas sec­tor.

De­ter­mined sis­ters Krisalan and Katelon John­son have spent the last three years study­ing by can­dle­light and torch­light at their San­gre Grande home, over­com­ing pover­ty and nu­mer­ous ad­ver­si­ties to keep their ed­u­ca­tion alive.

Two T&T me­dia pi­o­neers were in­duct­ed in­to the Caribbean Broad­cast­ing Union (CBU) Hall of Fame at the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s An­nu­al Gen­er­al As­sem­bly host­ed in Bar­ba­dos (Au­gust 18-20).

Deputy di­rec­tor of Re­search at the In­sti­tute of Ma­rine Af­fairs (IMA), Dr Ra­han­na Ju­man, con­firmed that sam­ples of pol­lut­ed wa­ter from the South Oropouche Riv­er have been col­lect­ed for test­ing.

COVID-19, crime and sui­cide have tak­en a heavy toll on mar­ried men, leav­ing be­hind a grow­ing num­ber of wid­ows across the coun­try.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) has ac­cused For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers of “gross in­so­bri­ety” over his com­ments on the im­pend­ing ar­rival of US naval as­sets in the south­ern Caribbean and his re­sponse to re­marks by US Vice Pres­i­dent JD Vance, who com­pared crime in Wash­ing­ton DC to T&T.

A for­mer class­mate de­scribed 19-year-old Kav­ish Per­sad as a “fe­ro­cious de­bater” yes­ter­day, as rel­a­tives, friends, and school­mates bid farewell to the Hillview Col­lege schol­ar who died in a car ac­ci­dent along the Beetham High­way on Tues­day.

De­spite ob­jec­tions from se­nior mem­bers of the T&T Red Cross So­ci­ety (TTRCS), Anne-Marie Quam­mie-Al­leyne has been elect­ed the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s new pres­i­dent. Calls to Quam­mie-Al­leyne for com­ment went unan­swered be­fore press time.

De­scribed as a cul­tur­al icon by Jus­tice Min­is­ter De­vesh Ma­haraj, Bri­an “Nyah­binghi” De Four says that while he is haunt­ed by the mur­der of his daugh­ter, it will not de­ter him from spread­ing pos­i­tiv­i­ty through mu­sic and Rasta­far­i­an­ism.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has de­clared T&T’s full sup­port for the Unit­ed States as Amer­i­can war­ships en­ter the Caribbean to tar­get Latin Amer­i­can drug car­tels.

The end of an ex­emp­tion on tar­iff du­ties for low-val­ue pack­ages com­ing in­to the Unit­ed States is caus­ing mul­ti­ple in­ter­na­tion­al postal ser­vices to pause ship­ping as they await more clar­i­ty on the rule.