Pres­i­dent Joe Biden signed a bill in­to law Sat­ur­day that averts a gov­ern­ment shut­down, bring­ing a fi­nal close to days of up­heaval af­ter Con­gress ap­proved a tem­po­rary fund­ing plan just past the dead­line and re­fused Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump’s core debt de­mands in the pack­age.

An­gry mo­torists and com­muters tra­vers­ing the Ca­paro Val­ley Bras­so Road to the ar­eas of Tabaquite, Flana­gin Town, Mamoral and Bras­so would have to wait un­til Feb­ru­ary 2025 for some per­ma­nent re­lief from a land­slide.

A 16-year-old boy from Ari­ma was shot and killed by his teen cousin while they were play­ing with an il­le­gal firearm on Fri­day.

The speed bar­ri­er at the Per­se­ver­ance Road Riv­er Bridge, Ch­agua­nas, has col­lapsed on a ve­hi­cle af­ter be­ing struck once again.

Three in­mates of the Port-of -pain Prison are ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court next week charged with pos­ses­sion of pro­hib­it­ed ar­ti­cles, in con­tra­ven­tion of Sec­tion 8 (1) (f) of the Prison Ser­vice Act.

A prop­er­ty dis­pute may be the rea­son why 63-year-old Sa­ha­daye Ram­nath was chopped about her face, head, hands and body by a 92-year-old man who is known to her.

A gen­der jus­tice ad­vo­cate has ex­pressed dis­ap­point­ment over a con­vict­ed rapist be­ing giv­en a two-year re­duc­tion in his sen­tence, af­ter mak­ing a $15,000 do­na­tion to the Rape Cri­sis So­ci­ety of T&T do­na­tion based on a di­rec­tive from his vic­tim.

Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds says the for­ma­tion of a three-mem­ber com­mit­tee to probe the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the T&T Fire Ser­vice’s re­sponse to the fire at the home of de­ceased D’Abadie/O’Meara MP Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian, is not due to her po­lit­i­cal af­fil­i­a­tion.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has made it clear that the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) will not be “in any ac­com­mo­da­tion” with Gary Grif­fith’s Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) ahead of the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tions.

The di­rec­tor of one of the coun­try’s main couri­er com­pa­nies, Paul Pan­tin, is call­ing for a re­turn to the 24-hour op­er­a­tions at the Cus­toms bond (Swis­s­port In­ter­na­tion­al AG) at Pi­ar­co sev­en days a week, much like it was be­fore the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic in 2020.

Ques­tions are be­ing raised about the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly’s (THA) in­ten­tion to ac­quire the Palms Vil­las Re­sort near the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, for use as an on­col­o­gy cen­tre.

The To­ba­go Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (TRHA) and the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly’s (THA) Health Sec­re­tary have come un­der fire for de­lays in de­liv­er­ing new am­bu­lances, af­ter spend­ing over one mil­lion rent­ing ve­hi­cles this year.