The Tourism Min­is­ter is en­cour­ag­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic to trav­el out­side of T&T for a greater ap­pre­ci­a­tion of how good they have it in this coun­try.

A large group of British Amer­i­can In­sur­ance Com­pa­ny (Baico) pol­i­cy­hold­ers from An­tigua and Bar­bu­da, and Grena­da, have lost their nov­el law­suit over the Gov­ern­ment’s bailout of CL Fi­nan­cial and its lo­cal sub­sidiaries.

Three con­tract­ing com­pa­nies will not be able to pur­sue a fi­nal ap­peal over a pre­lim­i­nary chal­lenge to mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar car­tel law­suit against them, for­mer of­fi­cials of the Es­tate Man­age­ment and Busi­ness De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Ltd (EM­BD) and for­mer hous­ing min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal.

In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor Dr Maria Dil­lon-Re­my has called for the full op­er­a­tional­i­sa­tion of the Rox­bor­ough Hos­pi­tal in this fis­cal year.

Both Ka­mala Har­ris and Don­ald Trump pro­mot­ed eco­nom­ic pol­i­cy Tues­day as their best chance to win Lati­no vot­ers. But their ap­proach­es are very dif­fer­ent.

The Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment has “strong­ly” con­demned the on­go­ing gang vi­o­lence in the Hait­ian cap­i­tal of Port- au- Prince, which it says is aimed at “destab­lis­ing” the gov­ern­ment in the French-speak­ing Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) coun­try.

The Caribbean In­dus­tri­al Re­search In­sti­tute (CARIRI) and the Of­fice of the Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion (OPR) have signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing (MOU) aimed at en­hanc­ing in­no­va­tion in pub­lic pro­cure­ment.

UWI’s In­sti­tute for Gen­der and De­vel­op­ment Stud­ies (IGDS) is call­ing for a stronger re­sponse to the rates of Gen­der-Based Vi­o­lence (GBV) in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

To­ba­go hote­liers say they are al­ready see­ing a high­ly suc­cess­ful Car­ni­val sea­son, with oc­cu­pan­cy rates reach­ing up to 100 per cent across most prop­er­ties.

Po­lice have con­firmed that five peo­ple were killed and sev­er­al oth­ers in­jured when gun­men opened fire dur­ing a foot­ball match in Pleas­ant Heights, Rock­fort in Kingston on Mon­day night.

Scot­land con­ceived rug­by sev­ens in the 1880s yet it will not fea­ture in the scaled-back 2026 Com­mon­wealth Games host­ed by Glas­gow.

A 30-year-old mem­ber of the TTPS Band iden­ti­fied as Quian­na Ma­habir, sus­tained se­ri­ous in­juries af­ter be­ing shot ear­ly this morn­ing. Ma­habir had just been picked up from the air­port by a friend when the in­ci­dent oc­curred. As they ap­proached her home the pair no­ticed an­oth­er ve­hi­cle stop near­by. Two armed men ex­it­ed the ve­hi­cle and ap­proached Ma­habir’s car. One sus­pect at­tempt­ed to open the pas­sen­ger door but found it locked. Short­ly af­ter, the friend re­port­ed hear­ing sev­er­al gun­shots and saw Ma­habir col­lapse.