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.

Two T&T me­dia pi­o­neers were in­duct­ed in­to the Caribbean Broad­cast­ing Union (CBU) Hall of Fame at the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s An­nu­al Gen­er­al As­sem­bly host­ed in Bar­ba­dos (Au­gust 18-20).

Deputy di­rec­tor of Re­search at the In­sti­tute of Ma­rine Af­fairs (IMA), Dr Ra­han­na Ju­man, con­firmed that sam­ples of pol­lut­ed wa­ter from the South Oropouche Riv­er have been col­lect­ed for test­ing.

COVID-19, crime and sui­cide have tak­en a heavy toll on mar­ried men, leav­ing be­hind a grow­ing num­ber of wid­ows across the coun­try.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) has ac­cused For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers of “gross in­so­bri­ety” over his com­ments on the im­pend­ing ar­rival of US naval as­sets in the south­ern Caribbean and his re­sponse to re­marks by US Vice Pres­i­dent JD Vance, who com­pared crime in Wash­ing­ton DC to T&T.