Life has been an up­hill bat­tle for for­mer Williamsville Sec­ondary teacher Lisa Dar­manie, and it has taught her many dif­fi­cult lessons.

Se­nior gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials and civ­il so­ci­ety lead­ers met in Gros-Islet, Saint Lu­cia, on March 2 and 3 for the Caribbean Con­ven­ing on a Glob­al Just Tran­si­tion from Fos­sil Fu­els.

Of­fi­cers of the Traf­fic and High­way Pa­trol Branch have ar­rest­ed one man and seized two firearms and am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed un­der the State of Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tion 2026 with­in the past 24 hours.

A woman is sched­uled to ap­pear be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court next Mon­day (March 9, 2026), fol­low­ing a charge of Lar­ce­ny re­lat­ed to an on­line ve­hi­cle sale.

The un­fold­ing Iran war has ric­o­cheted across the re­gion and be­yond, with near­ly every coun­try in the Mid­dle East sus­tain­ing dam­age from mis­sile hits, drone strikes or shrap­nel, many re­port­ing ca­su­al­ties, and key em­bassies, eco­nom­ic en­gines and pas­sage­ways clos­ing down. Off the coast of Sri Lan­ka, a U.S. sub­ma­rine sank an Iran­ian war­ship as the war in­ten­si­fied and its foot­print grew.

The An­ju­man Sun­nat-ul-Ja­maat As­so­ci­a­tion (AS­JA) has is­sued a pub­lic state­ment ex­press­ing con­cern over the es­ca­la­tion of hos­til­i­ties in the Mid­dle East and is call­ing for an im­me­di­ate cease­fire and a re­turn to diplo­mat­ic di­a­logue.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty has an­nounced in­ter­im wa­ter sup­ply sched­ules for sev­er­al ar­eas in Bar­rack­pore due to low pres­sure in the sys­tem.

Elmie Lee has been elect­ed pres­i­dent of the Fil­ipino Com­mu­ni­ty As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (FCATT) for the 2026 to 2028 term.

Cit­i­zens can now check whether a med­ica­tion is legal­ly ap­proved in Trinidad and To­ba­go fol­low­ing the launch of the Min­istry of Health’s Reg­u­lat­ed Med­i­cines and Sub­stances Por­tal—an on­line data­base list­ing more than 10,000 reg­is­tered drugs.

A fam­i­ly in Ed­in­burgh 500 suf­fered hun­dreds of thou­sands of dol­lars in loss­es af­ter a fire de­stroyed two ve­hi­cles and par­tial­ly dam­aged their home on Tues­day evening.

Pa­tri­ot­ic Front leader Mick­ela Pan­day is warn­ing that Trinidad and To­ba­go risks weak­en­ing con­sti­tu­tion­al pro­tec­tions if emer­gency pow­ers are re­peat­ed­ly used as the pri­ma­ry re­sponse to crime.

Two men were ar­rest­ed at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um this week af­ter al­leged­ly pre­sent­ing al­tered doc­u­ments to im­mi­gra­tion of­fi­cials.