A Diego Mar­tin woman’s apart­ment and an au­to sup­ply store were de­stroyed af­ter a fire broke out at a build­ing yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

A fam­i­ly of five has been left home­less af­ter a fire, be­lieved to have been de­lib­er­ate­ly set, de­stroyed their home at Madras Road, Cunu­pia, on Tues­day, re­duc­ing near­ly all their be­long­ings to ash­es.

More than a month af­ter ac­tivist Alyssa Phillip was con­tro­ver­sial­ly ar­rest­ed dur­ing Labour Day cel­e­bra­tions in Fyz­abad, the labour move­ment is await­ing le­gal ad­vice on whether there are grounds to chal­lenge the mat­ter in court.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has point­ed to po­lice sta­tis­tics which she says show a de­cline in mur­ders un­der her ad­min­is­tra­tion, ar­gu­ing that the da­ta demon­strate the ef­fec­tive­ness of the Gov­ern­ment’s crime-fight­ing mea­sures and the State of Emer­gency (SoE).

Trinidad and To­ba­go has se­cured its first-ever medal at the In­ter­na­tion­al Chem­istry Olympiad (IChO), with Na­pari­ma Col­lege stu­dent Regi­nald Mo­hammed earn­ing a bronze medal at the 57th edi­tion of the glob­al com­pe­ti­tion held in Tashkent, Uzbek­istan.

The Caribbean has strength­ened its in­flu­ence in leg­isla­tive draft­ing across the Com­mon­wealth af­ter two re­gion­al le­gal pro­fes­sion­als were elect­ed to se­nior lead­er­ship po­si­tions in the Com­mon­wealth As­so­ci­a­tion of Leg­isla­tive Coun­sel (CALC).

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos, Jul 21, CMC – The Bar­ba­dos gov­ern­ment Tues­day said that the state fu­ner­al of Na­tion­al Hero and for­mer West In­dies crick­et cap­tain, Sir Garfield Sobers, will take place on Ju­ly 29, at the Kens­ing­ton Oval.

The Privy Coun­cil has list­ed an ap­peal by the State in the le­gal pro­ceed­ings in­volv­ing busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve Hadeed.

The Min­istry of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence (MPAAI) is clar­i­fy­ing re­ports sur­round­ing a da­ta cen­tre project.

Stu­dents at Mt D’Or Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School will have greater ac­cess to steel­pan ed­u­ca­tion fol­low­ing the do­na­tion of a set of steel­pans from the Sco­tia­bank Foun­da­tion and Unit­ed Way Trinidad and To­ba­go (UWTT).

Twen­ty six young peo­ple brought the cur­tain down on this year’s Pres­i­dent’s Pan Camp with a per­for­mance at Pres­i­dent’s House on Sat­ur­day, cap­ping six days of mu­sic, men­tor­ship and per­son­al de­vel­op­ment aimed at build­ing con­fi­dence, lead­er­ship and re­silience.

Lester Al­leyne has been named as the Pres­i­dent of the Ro­tary Club of Diego Mar­tin Board for 2026/2027.