A sin­gle stab wound to the neck led to the death of Sher­win Balka­ran, who was found bleed­ing at the road­side near his home ear­ly yes­ter­day.

The woman told po­lice she went to bed around 9 pm on Fri­day, and around 1.30 am, she awoke to find a Span­ish-speak­ing man armed with a knife in­side her bed­room.

Blue Basin/Bagatelle coun­cil­lor Ali­na Renn says she is work­ing to rec­ti­fy the is­sue of miss­ing man­hole cov­ers along the North Post Road in Diego Mar­tin.

The am­bas­sador to the Caribbean for the dis­put­ed ter­ri­to­ry of West­ern Sa­hara is urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment, and the wider Caribbean, to sup­port the Sahrawi peo­ple’s right to self-de­ter­mi­na­tion.

Amid claims of ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties, new­ly elect­ed vice pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Cross So­ci­ety (TTRCS), Ed­ward Mood­ie, says con­cerns raised dur­ing the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s elec­tion on Sat­ur­day will be ad­dressed. He al­so de­nied that the elec­tions were flawed.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed three men and seized two guns, as­sort­ed am­mu­ni­tion and drugs in sep­a­rate crime fight­ing ex­er­cis­es across the coun­try over the past 72 hours.

The Met Of­fice has is­sued a Yel­low Lev­el Ad­verse Weath­er Alert from 9:20 am to­day, Sun­day Au­gust 24, un­til 5:00 pm.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has out­lined a se­ries of short-term mea­sures to ease wa­ter short­ages in Moru­ga/Table­land, in­clud­ing four new 30,000-gal­lon stor­age ter­mi­nals, a 5,000-gal­lon ex­pan­sion at the Marac Bap­tist Pri­ma­ry School, and com­mit­ments to strength­en pipeline in­fra­struc­ture in sev­er­al com­mu­ni­ties.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) says an area of show­ers and thun­der­storms east of the Wind­ward Is­lands is show­ing signs of or­gan­i­sa­tion.

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.