A drug block op­er­a­tion led by the North East­ern Di­vi­sion yes­ter­day, re­sult­ed in the seizure of a quan­ti­ty of cannabis.

Hours af­ter the UNC an­nounced it was meet­ing with small­er par­ties and some trade unions, the Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) says it will drink wa­ter and mind its busi­ness.

Vet­er­an jour­nal­ist Do­minic Kaliper­sad, for­mer ed­i­tor-in-chief of the Trinidad Guardian, has been ho­n­oured by the Uni­ver­si­ty of the South­ern Caribbean (USC) for his sig­nif­i­cant im­pact on jour­nal­ism.

The Chair­man of the To­ba­go Busi­ness Cham­ber says there isn't enough clar­i­ty on what is meant by au­ton­o­my for To­ba­go.

Two friends lost their lives in a ve­hic­u­lar ac­ci­dent in the ear­ly hours of Thurs­day morn­ing along Mc Bean, Cou­va.

In a ma­jor move, UNC leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar will meet sev­er­al po­lit­i­cal par­ties and or­gan­i­sa­tions at 3pm.

The Unit­ed States Fed­er­al Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tion (FBI) is ex­tend­ing its ro­bust toolk­it for com­bat­ing cor­rup­tion to part­ners in the Caribbean, through new mech­a­nisms that can sup­port the re­gion’s fight against il­lic­it fi­nan­cial ac­tiv­i­ties and gov­er­nance chal­lenges.

Pales­tin­ian med­ical of­fi­cials say Is­raeli airstrikes have killed at least 28 peo­ple in the Gaza Strip, in­clud­ing sev­en chil­dren and a woman, hours af­ter the U.N. Gen­er­al As­sem­bly over­whelm­ing­ly ap­proved a res­o­lu­tion de­mand­ing an im­me­di­ate cease­fire in Gaza.

T&TEC has con­firmed that at 10:21 pm yes­ter­day, the en­tire is­land of To­ba­go lost elec­tric­i­ty sup­ply, due to an is­sue that oc­curred at the Scar­bor­ough Sub­sta­tion.

With a gen­er­al elec­tion due next year, ques­tions have arisen about the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion’s (EBC) state of readi­ness.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Air­line Pi­lots’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTAL­PA) yes­ter­day fi­nal­ly signed off on a new four per cent pay hike agree­ment with Caribbean Air­lines (CAL).

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Regi­nald Ar­mour says Gov­ern­ment will need to re­vis­it the To­ba­go au­ton­o­my bills af­ter the Op­po­si­tion’s re­jec­tion of the key Con­sti­tu­tion Amend­ment (To­ba­go Self-Gov­ern­ment) bill.