Trav­el­ling times on the seabridge have been ad­just­ed as the Galleons Pas­sage is re­plac­ing the TT Spir­it tem­porar­i­ly, dur­ing the month of No­vem­ber.

Arch­bish­op of Can­ter­bury Justin Wel­by, head of the Church of Eng­land and spir­i­tu­al leader of the glob­al An­gli­can Com­mu­nion, re­signed Tues­day af­ter an in­ves­ti­ga­tion found that he failed to tell po­lice about se­r­i­al phys­i­cal and sex­u­al abuse by a vol­un­teer at Chris­t­ian sum­mer camps as soon as he be­came aware of it.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Car­ni­val Bands’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTC­BA) launched its first “Sa­van­nah Talks” de­signed to give TTC­BA mem­bers di­rect ac­cess to in­dus­try lead­ers, in­for­ma­tion, and net­works on top­ics they pri­ori­tise for their de­vel­op­ment. The goal is to em­pow­er mem­bers with tools and in­sights to ad­vance their busi­ness­es in a way that is clear, prac­ti­cal, and ac­tion­able.

Most of Trinidad cur­rent­ly is un­der a Lo­calised Flood Alert/Yel­low Lev­el, which was ac­ti­vat­ed at 10:15 am to­day.

Po­lice have ar­rest­ed four peo­ple and seized ev­i­dence dur­ing an in­ten­sive an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in the North­ern Di­vi­sion on Mon­day.

A man who au­thor­i­ties said was up­set over his di­vorce set­tle­ment rammed his car in­to a crowd of peo­ple ex­er­cis­ing at a sports com­plex in south­ern Chi­na, killing 35 and se­vere­ly in­jur­ing dozens of oth­ers, po­lice said Tues­day.

World lead­ers are con­verg­ing Tues­day at the Unit­ed Na­tions an­nu­al cli­mate con­fer­ence in Baku, Azer­bai­jan al­though the big names and pow­er­ful coun­tries are no­tice­ably ab­sent, un­like past cli­mate talks which had the star pow­er of a soc­cer World Cup.

“We are in the fi­nal count­down to lim­it glob­al tem­per­a­ture rise to 1.5 de­grees Cel­sius. And time is not on our side…”

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Works, Richie Sookhai, and PNM's can­di­date for Ch­agua­nas East has hit the ground in the mar­gin­al con­stituen­cy hop­ing to drum up sup­port in a re­gion the PNM has strug­gled to win in sev­er­al elec­tions. 

The Unit­ed Na­tions says this year has seen a stag­ger­ing 1,000 per cent or ten-fold surge in sex­u­al vi­o­lence against chil­dren in Haiti dur­ing an un­prece­dent­ed cri­sis which has al­so seen armed gangs con­tin­ue to ter­rorise com­mu­ni­ties amid a grow­ing hu­man­i­tar­i­an dis­as­ter.

Po­lice say the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the death of 15-year-old Jay­den Lalchan re­mains ac­tive, even though they found there is in­suf­fi­cient ev­i­dence that showed bul­ly­ing led to the teen end­ing his life. Yes­ter­day, As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Wayne Mys­tar is­sued a state­ment to the me­dia, giv­ing an up­date on the high­ly pub­li­cised probe.

Caribbean econ­o­mist Mar­la Dukha­ran says the so­lu­tion to this coun­try’s for­eign ex­change avail­abil­i­ty prob­lems is sim­ple and with­in reach.