A Cunu­pia woman who at­tempt­ed to es­cape a run­away truck and ran across the road to avoid be­ing mowed down, was still killed af­ter be­ing struck and thrown sev­er­al feet away in some bush­es.

Po­lice re­ports state that the broth­ers were stand­ing along the road when they were ap­proached by two men, one of whom was dressed in cam­ou­flage.

The Joint Trade Union Move­ment (JTUM) is ac­cus­ing the gov­ern­ment of at­tempt­ing to block Labour Day cel­e­bra­tions through the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port (MOWT).

The moth­er of a 16-year-old school boy made a tear­ful ap­peal to Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly yes­ter­day, “Please help my son. I don’t want him to die.”

Staff mem­bers of the com­pa­ny’s San Fer­nan­do, Cou­va, and Port-of- Spain branch­es where chal­lenged to sow and reap veg­e­ta­tion us­ing on­ly wood­en palettes.

A promi­nent at­tor­ney has been or­dered to pay al­most $500,000 in fines af­ter plead­ing guilty to ut­ter­ing a forged val­u­a­tion re­port to re­duce the amount of stamp du­ty he was re­quired to pay for a prop­er­ty.

The Court of Ap­peal has set aside the find­ings and rec­om­men­da­tions made by the Com­mis­sion of En­quiry in­to the Las Al­turas hous­ing project against for­mer Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of T&T (Ude­cott) ex­ec­u­tive chair­man Calder Hart. 

Tourism Min­is­ter Ran­dall Mitchell and Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) chair­man Win­ston “Gyp­sy” Pe­ters have both de­fend­ed the need for tax­pay­ers to fund Car­ni­val, agree­ing that fes­ti­vals help to fu­el the econ­o­my.

Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad & To­ba­go (TSTT), Lisa Agard, has writ­ten to the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Au­thor­i­ty of T&T (TATT) ques­tion­ing the pres­ence of the Blue Mo­bile Net­work un­der ex­ist­ing laws.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) is tak­ing an­oth­er step to make the coun­try more dis­as­ter-risk re­silient.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Per­ma­nent Rep­re­sen­ta­tive with the World Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Or­ga­ni­za­tion and Act­ing Di­rec­tor of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice has stressed that com­mu­ni­ties in low-ly­ing coastal zone and in close con­nec­tion with coastal en­vi­ron­ments, as is the case for Caribbean Small Is­land De­vel­op­ing States (CSIDS) are par­tic­u­lar­ly ex­posed to a shrink­ing cryos­phere and re­lat­ed down­stream im­pacts and pro­ject­ed changes and risks on the ocean, such as sea lev­el rise and ex­treme sea lev­el.

Iran is pro­vid­ing Rus­sia with ma­te­ri­als to build a drone man­u­fac­tur­ing plant east of Moscow as the Krem­lin looks to lock in a steady sup­ply of weapon­ry for its on­go­ing in­va­sion of Ukraine, ac­cord­ing to a U.S. in­tel­li­gence find­ing re­leased by the White House on Fri­day.