Ma­ter­nal deaths are steadi­ly de­creas­ing, ac­cord­ing to da­ta pro­vid­ed by the Health Min­istry to Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day.

Mo­torists have com­plained about a lengthy traf­fic grid­lock fol­low­ing an ac­ci­dent on the south­bound lane of the Uri­ah But­ler High­way on Sun­day night.

Mem­bers of the board of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) re­ceived their let­ters of ap­point­ment to­day at the Min­istry of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Head Of­fice in St Clair, Port-of-Spain.

A woman who pre­vi­ous­ly sued Sean “Did­dy” Combs, al­leg­ing she was raped at an awards show af­ter-par­ty in 2000 when she was 13, amend­ed the law­suit Sun­day to in­clude a new al­le­ga­tion that Jay-Z was al­so at the par­ty and par­tic­i­pat­ed in the sex­u­al as­sault.

An­gry over the state of To­ba­go au­ton­o­my, Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has de­scribed Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley as a “house slave," ac­cus­ing him of ig­nor­ing the needs of To­ba­go’s peo­ple.

The main op­po­si­tion Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Mon­day used its num­bers in the Par­lia­ment to pre­vent the gov­ern­ment from push­ing for­ward leg­is­la­tion on the grant­i­ng of au­ton­o­my to To­ba­go.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Air­line Pi­lots As­so­ci­a­tion (TTAL­PA)  Mon­day warned of pos­si­ble dis­rup­tions to the ser­vice of the state-owned Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) af­ter it ac­cused the air­line’s man­age­ment of seek­ing to hi­jack the ne­go­ti­a­tions over salary in­creas­es for pi­lots.

Hon­orary Con­sul for the Re­pub­lic of Por­tu­gal, William Fer­reira, has been re-elect­ed as the Dean of the Con­sular Corps of T&T.

Jawan­za Richards, 40, of Sesame Street, Pin­to Road, Ari­ma, was re­port­ed­ly gunned down around 8:15 pm on De­cem­ber 8. At the time of the at­tack, he was show­er­ing in an un­fin­ished con­crete struc­ture at the back of his house.

The Min­istry of Health is now mon­i­tor­ing the emer­gence of the Ma­yaro and Oropouche virus­es, two trop­i­cal dis­eases that pose po­ten­tial health risks to the pop­u­la­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go and the wider Caribbean. 

Three sus­pects were ar­rest­ed by of­fi­cers of the cen­tral di­vi­sion, fol­low­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to a re­port of rob­bery with vi­o­lence in the Gran Cou­va dis­trict, last Fri­day.

Three men at­tempt­ed to rob the Re­pub­lic Bank ATM at the Shoppes of Mar­aval, Sad­dle Road, Mar­aval, in the ear­ly hours to­day.