A bush fire has de­stroyed one of Pe­nal’s most cher­ished land­mark homes, wip­ing out near­ly a cen­tu­ry of his­to­ry tied to the Tilluck­d­har­ry fam­i­ly, whose lega­cy has shaped gen­er­a­tions with­in the Pe­nal com­mu­ni­ty.

The Prime Min­is­ter must state a proac­tive re­form-based pol­i­cy on po­lice of­fi­cers in schools, go to work on re­al so­lu­tions to re­duce school vi­o­lence and stop the rant­i­ng, says Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment leader Pen­ny Beck­les.

There al­most wasn’t a de­c­la­ra­tion from the re­cent tenth sum­mit of the Com­mu­ni­ty of Latin Amer­i­ca and Caribbean States (CELAC), as there was a lot of di­vi­sion and Trinidad and To­ba­go and sev­er­al oth­er coun­tries dis­as­so­ci­at­ed them­selves from cer­tain as­pects of the de­c­la­ra­tion, ac­cord­ing to Bar­ba­dos Am­bas­sador to Cari­com, David Comis­siong.

Al­most two weeks af­ter Ce­dros crick­eter Rashme Deoa­jit was mur­dered, po­lice have ar­rest­ed a sus­pect.

Min­ing and Pro­cess­ing of Ag­gre­gates As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (MPATT) pres­i­dent Dan­ny Per­sad is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to step in and fix the prob­lem of il­le­gal quar­ry­ing in the coun­try.

Agri­cul­ture and Fish­eries Min­is­ter Ravi Rati­ram has sound­ed the alarm over bil­lions of dol­lars bleed­ing from Trinidad and To­ba­go’s econ­o­my due to a decade-long de­cline in agri­cul­ture. And he has out­lined a plan to re­verse the trend through lo­cal pro­duc­tion and re­duced re­liance on im­ports.

A 21-year-old po­lice of­fi­cer was robbed ear­ly Mon­day morn­ing when he went to with­draw cash from an ATM.

A 41-year-old Curepe man died af­ter suf­fer­ing a heart at­tack and crash­ing in­to the back of a car while dri­ving on Sun­day night.

Ac­ci­dent sur­vivor Yousuf Ho­sein is once again mak­ing an ap­peal to the gov­ern­ment to in­stall pro­tec­tive bar­ri­ers af­ter an­oth­er cross-me­di­an fa­tal crash.

A man is in cus­tody af­ter po­lice seized two firearms, am­mu­ni­tion and cannabis dur­ing State of Emer­gency op­er­a­tions in the West­ern Di­vi­sion.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has de­scribed the theft of pow­er ca­bles at four Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) wells in To­ba­go as “bor­der­line do­mes­tic ter­ror­ism.”

The cur­rent im­passe be­tween the Gov­ern­ment and nurs­es, re­sult­ing in a sick­out over the week­end, is ex­pect­ed to get worse as the week pro­gress­es.