Is­rael Khan SC says he in­tends to re­sume his bat­tle to re­form the process of award­ing “silk” to de­serv­ing at­tor­neys in the Ap­peal Court next year

The Syr­i­an gov­ern­ment fell ear­ly Sun­day in a stun­ning end to the 50-year rule of the As­sad fam­i­ly af­ter a sud­den rebel of­fen­sive sprint­ed across gov­ern­ment-held ter­ri­to­ry and en­tered the cap­i­tal in 10 days.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Works Richie Sookhai has promised the widen­ing of the Solomon Ho­choy High­way be­tween Chase Vil­lage and Ch­agua­nas should be com­plet­ed be­fore the end of this year. He gave this as­sur­ance when he at­tend­ed a chil­dren’s treat at the Post­man Road Recre­ation Ground, En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas, on Sat­ur­day.

Three men are re­ceiv­ing treat­ment for gun­shot wounds af­ter gun­men at­tacked a birth­day lime in San Juan on Sat­ur­day night.

A 43-year-old TT Ride Share dri­ver is re­ceiv­ing treat­ment for a gun­shot wound he sus­tained when his car came un­der fire dur­ing a trip ear­ly on Sun­day morn­ing.

Car­bon emis­sions are go­ing in the wrong di­rec­tion. This is de­spite ef­forts by COP af­ter COP to find a path away from fos­sil fu­els. Ac­cord­ing to cli­mate.gov, in 2023, the glob­al av­er­age car­bon diox­ide lev­el reached a new record high of 419.3 parts per mil­lion.

Last week, the Guardian Me­dia In­ves­ti­ga­tions Desk high­light­ed new trends in do­mes­tic vi­o­lence cas­es and sex­u­al vi­o­lence cas­es against chil­dren: chil­dren be­ing killed along with their moth­ers, the preva­lence of sex­u­al touch­ing of mi­nors, and in­suf­fi­cient safe hous­es.

Af­ter serv­ing as MP for 33 years, Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley will not be screened by the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) for the Diego Mar­tin West seat in the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion. In­stead, in­formed sources told Guardian Me­dia that Sen­a­tor Dr Amery Browne is set to re-en­ter elec­toral pol­i­tics and screen for the Diego Mar­tin West seat with Dr Row­ley’s bless­ings.

Res­i­dents of the La Hor­quet­ta com­mu­ni­ty are shak­en af­ter a man, be­lieved to be a ban­dit, was fa­tal­ly shot with his own gun dur­ing an at­tempt­ed rob­bery at a mi­ni-mart on Fri­day af­ter­noon.

The chair­man of the Pe­nal/Debe Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (PDRC) is call­ing for joint po­lice/army pa­trols in the area for the Christ­mas sea­son.

Ch­agua­nas busi­ness­man Tariq Razak, 59, was gunned down out­side of his busi­ness place on the west­ern end of Er­ic Street yes­ter­day morn­ing.

A new so­ca com­pe­ti­tion is com­ing for Car­ni­val 2025, but it is not the re­turn of the In­ter­na­tion­al So­ca Monarch (ISM).