The MP for Diego Mar­tin Cen­tral, Symon de No­bri­ga, says he is sat­is­fied with the on­go­ing works to ad­dress the re­cent par­tial col­lapse of the Morne Co­co Road in Pe­tit Val­ley.

A group of lo­cal doc­tors is call­ing for fi­nan­cial trans­paren­cy from the Med­ical Coun­cil of the Med­ical Board of Trinidad and To­ba­go (MBTT) fol­low­ing al­le­ga­tions of ex­trav­a­gant spend­ing and funds un­ac­count­ed for.

Sasha Ra­moutar’s world col­lapsed the day she be­came wid­owed at 31 as her com­mon-law hus­band, Je­re­my Ram­cha­ran, took his own life. He was 29, and the weight of fi­nan­cial bur­dens proved too much to bear.

Debe teenag­er Nishad Ram­per­sad bat­tled de­pres­sion dur­ing the COVID pan­dem­ic but turned to an un­ex­pect­ed out­let—gam­ing—to cope with his strug­gles. Now he is reap­ing the re­wards of his per­sis­tence, earn­ing US dol­lars for be­ing T&T’s pro­lif­ic gamer named Casper.

In less than a month, there have been three in­ci­dents where peo­ple were kid­napped or killed by crim­i­nals wear­ing po­lice op­er­a­tional wear. For the year so far, there have been at least nine in­ci­dents where crim­i­nals dis­guised as po­lice of­fi­cers com­mit­ted rob­beries, as­saults, kid­nap­pings, and even mur­ders.

Moth­ers in To­ba­go have come un­der fire from Chief Sec­re­tary of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Far­ley Au­gus­tine. The Chief Sec­re­tary said that crime has been in­creas­ing on the is­land be­cause moth­ers are not hold­ing their sons ac­count­able, al­low­ing il­le­gal ac­tiv­i­ties to con­tin­ue with­out ques­tion. He ac­cused moth­ers on the is­land of en­joy­ing the fruits of crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ties.

For­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) MP NiLe­ung Hy­po­lite is be­ing re­mem­bered as a true PNM soldier and true gen­tle­man. In June, Hy­po­lite an­nounced his bat­tle with acute Adult T-cell leukemia/lym­phoma (ATL), a rare ag­gres­sive form of can­cer.

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.ttFor­mer pres­i­dent of the Pe­nal/Debe Cham­ber of Com­merce Ram­per­sad Sieu­raj was chopped on his head dur­ing a home in­va­sion dur­ing the ear­ly hours of Thurs­day morn­ing.

A home in­va­sion vic­tim end­ed up on the wrong side of the law when he crashed in­to an el­der­ly cy­clist and killed him on Fri­day night in Cara­pichaima. The 21-year-old man, who was dri­ving his car at a high speed and killed 78-year-old Azad Khan, had min­utes be­fore been robbed at his home.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) is warn­ing that more neona­tal deaths could oc­cur in this coun­try. They al­lege that the health min­istry has failed to ful­ly im­ple­ment the Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion’s (PA­HO) rec­om­men­da­tions fol­low­ing the deaths of sev­en ba­bies at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal’s (POS­GH) neona­tal in­ten­sive care unit (NICU) ear­li­er this year.

The mur­der of an off-du­ty po­lice­man out­side a pop­u­lar Ari­ma gro­cery on Sat­ur­day night has stoked fears among res­i­dents over con­tin­ued crime and crim­i­nal­i­ty.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has la­belled do­mes­tic vi­o­lence and bul­ly­ing a na­tion­al cri­sis, urg­ing im­me­di­ate ac­tion to pro­tect women and chil­dren across the na­tion.