A 35-year-old man was de­nied bail yes­ter­day af­ter ap­pear­ing in court charged with the mur­der of Po­lice Con­sta­ble Kr­ish­na Ba­na­har.

Con­cerns have in­ten­si­fied over an im­passe be­tween the Na­tion­al Lot­ter­ies Con­trol Board (NL­CB) and Play Whe/Lot­to booth own­ers as the NL­CB has sus­pend­ed mul­ti­ple ma­chines across the coun­try, a move that raised ques­tions about the board’s mo­tives and man­age­ment prac­tices.

In an era dom­i­nat­ed by ab­bre­vi­at­ed lan­guage like ‘LOL’—Laugh­ing Out Loud—for­mer Na­pari­ma Col­lege prin­ci­pal Dr Michael Dowlath warns that over-re­liance on tex­ting is stunt­ing stu­dents’ com­mu­ni­ca­tion abil­i­ties, a crit­i­cal skill for em­ploy­a­bil­i­ty in to­day’s job mar­ket.

Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials con­firmed yes­ter­day that Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley will head a team from T&T at next week’s Sec­ond Cari­com-In­dia sum­mit in George­town, Guyana, which In­dia’s Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Mo­di will at­tend.

A 27-year-old co­conut ven­dor from Gas­par­il­lo re­port­ed­ly de­fend­ed him­self dur­ing an at­tempt­ed rob­bery while at the Preysal Fly­over. 

Days af­ter se­nior po­lice of­fi­cials shut down a mil­lion-dol­lar birth­day cel­e­bra­tion at Beetham Gar­dens, au­thor­i­ties have ob­ject­ed to the host­ing of a dance­hall con­cert sched­uled for the up­com­ing week­end on the ba­sis that it pos­es a threat to pub­lic safe­ty. 

On Nov. 13, 2015, Is­lam­ic State mil­i­tants car­ried out a set of co­or­di­nat­ed at­tacks in Paris at the na­tion­al sta­di­um, in a crowd­ed con­cert hall, in restau­rants and on streets, killing 130 peo­ple in the worst at­tack on French soil since World War II.

The Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad & To­ba­go (AATT) is set to host Air­ports Coun­cil In­ter­na­tion­al – Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean’s (ACI-LAC) An­nu­al As­sem­bly Con­fer­ence and Ex­hi­bi­tion in No­vem­ber 2025.

The Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO) says ap­prox­i­mate­ly 5,100 peo­ple die an­nu­al­ly in the Caribbean from HIV-re­lat­ed caus­es and that one-third of the HIV cas­es are iden­ti­fied in an ad­vanced stage.

New storms in Spain caused school clo­sures and train can­cel­la­tions on Wednes­day, two weeks af­ter flash floods in Va­len­cia and oth­er parts of the coun­try killed more than 220 peo­ple and de­stroyed thou­sands of homes.

Pres­i­dent Joe Biden wel­comed Don­ald Trump to the White House on Wednes­day for an Oval Of­fice vis­it, a tra­di­tion­al part of the peace­ful hand­off of pow­er — and a rit­u­al that Trump him­self de­clined to par­tic­i­pate in four years ago.

Mwan­za Joseph has been re­mand­ed in cus­tody af­ter ap­pear­ing in court charged with the mur­der of Po­lice Con­sta­ble Kr­ish­na Ba­na­har.