As In­ter­na­tion­al Wid­ows Day ap­proach­es on March 8, an ap­peal is be­ing made to the Gov­ern­ment to en­sure time­ly and com­pas­sion­ate hous­ing for wid­ows.

An Ari­ma busi­ness­man was killed on Mon­day, as he drove in­to the garage of his home at Plum­rose Av­enue, San­ta Rosa Heights, Ari­ma.

An 83-year-old pen­sion­er, of Pe­tit Bourg, San Juan, was as­sault­ed and robbed by a man she knows in the neigh­bour­hood.

The 24-year-old vic­tim, of St Fran­cois Val­ley Road, Bel­mont, was shot at his rent­ed apart­ment at Benares Street, St James.

Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer Dr Daryl Din­di­al has con­firmed that the 5% of­fer on salary and Cost of Liv­ing Al­lowance, ex­tend­ed pri­or to the 2025 elec­tions, re­mains in place, de­spite calls from Fire Ser­vice As­so­ci­a­tions for a re­view of ex­ist­ing al­lowances.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly has as­sured the pub­lic that the is­land re­mains safe amid the state of emer­gency de­clared by the gov­ern­ment to­day.

A for­mer First Cit­i­zens Bank man­ag­er who dis­cov­ered a mi­cro­phone hid­den in­side a smoke de­tec­tor in his of­fice was dis­missed weeks lat­er. Now, the bank has been or­dered to com­pen­sate him.

Two ve­hi­cles stolen at gun­point in sep­a­rate in­ci­dents were re­cov­ered on Mon­day af­ter­noon in the carpark of a St James busi­ness.

The Privy Coun­cil has cleared the way for nine men for­mer­ly ac­cused of the kid­nap­ping and mur­der of busi­ness­woman Vin­dra Naipaul-Cool­man to re­ceive over $20 mil­lion for ma­li­cious pros­e­cu­tion.

The Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers’ Union (CWU) is cau­tion­ing the Gov­ern­ment against us­ing the cur­rent State of Emer­gency (SOE) to re­strict cit­i­zens’ con­sti­tu­tion­al right to peace­ful protest.

Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) leader Pen­ny Beck­les says there is no crime plan by the Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar Gov­ern­ment.

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie said Gov­ern­ment had “no choice” but to ad­vise the Pres­i­dent to de­clare a state of emer­gency, cit­ing an es­ca­la­tion in gang vi­o­lence, mass shoot­ings and cred­i­ble threats to pub­lic safe­ty.