Co­conut oil pro­duc­ers and ven­dors in the south-west­ern com­mu­ni­ty of Ica­cos are ex­press­ing con­cern over Gov­ern­ment’s pro­pos­al to dou­ble the penal­ty for man­u­fac­tur­ing co­pra prod­ucts with­out a li­cence, warn­ing the move could neg­a­tive­ly im­pact small op­er­a­tors who de­pend on the in­dus­try for their liveli­hoods.

The lo­cal and in­ter­na­tion­al mu­sic com­mu­ni­ty is mourn­ing the loss of leg­endary pan­nist, arranger, com­pos­er and pro­duc­er Robert “Rob­bie” Greenidge, 76, who died yes­ter­day.

When trade unions marched out­side min­is­ters’ homes un­der the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion, it was framed as law­ful in­dus­tri­al ac­tion.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has threat­ened to sue Arou­ca/Lopinot MP Mar­vin Gon­za­les for defama­tion. 

A woman has won a law­suit against her step-broth­er over their fa­ther’s de­ci­sion to leave his prop­er­ty to her af­ter his death.

Is­rael’s lat­est strikes on Lebanon and Iran have made clear that U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump and Is­raeli Prime Min­is­ter Ben­jamin Ne­tanyahu, who start­ed the war in lock­step, want dif­fer­ent things.

Two men were ar­rest­ed on Sun­day night af­ter po­lice of­fi­cers in­ter­cept­ed a ve­hi­cle in Quar­ry Vil­lage, Siparia, and al­leged­ly dis­cov­ered a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing a tar­get­ed op­er­a­tion.

A 6.1 mag­ni­tude earth­quake struck near west­ern Cu­ba on Mon­day, shak­ing build­ings in Ha­vana and be­yond.

The State De­part­ment will of­fer a “pre­mi­um” ex­pe­dit­ed ser­vice for for­eign­ers seek­ing busi­ness or tourist visas to come to the Unit­ed States that will set ap­pli­cants back $750 — on top of the ini­tial fee of $185.

The Gov­ern­ment is propos­ing changes to pen­sion rules that would al­low po­lice, prison and fire of­fi­cers who spent ex­tend­ed pe­ri­ods act­ing in high­er po­si­tions to re­tire with ben­e­fits based on their act­ing salaries rather than their sub­stan­tive ap­point­ments.

A Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice of­fi­cer has been grant­ed bail af­ter be­ing charged with forgery and mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice.

Robert Greenidge, the in­ter­na­tion­al­ly ac­claimed steel­pan vir­tu­oso, arranger and com­pos­er whose artistry helped el­e­vate Trinidad and To­ba­go’s na­tion­al in­stru­ment to glob­al recog­ni­tion, died to­day af­ter a pro­longed ill­ness. He was 76.