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

Trinida­di­an en­ter­tain­ers close­ly as­so­ci­at­ed with the rise of the Trini­bad dance­hall sub­genre have been banned from per­form­ing in St Kitts and Nevis.

Union lead­ers in­ten­si­fied their cam­paign to un­seat the Gov­ern­ment in the up­com­ing 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion, vow­ing to mo­bilise larg­er crowds and sus­tain pub­lic march­es.

“He mis­led the pop­u­la­tion, no ex­cus­es there.” This was the frank as­sess­ment from po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tist Dr Bish­nu Ra­goonath in re­sponse to Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert’s ex­pla­na­tion for the ex­tent of cost over­runs in the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port ex­pan­sion project.

San Fer­nan­do’s High Street is show­ing signs of a hol­i­day re­vival, with shop­pers slow­ly re­turn­ing de­spite lin­ger­ing eco­nom­ic pres­sures from COVID-19.

Christ­mas sales have been slow­er this year com­pared to last year, says pres­i­dent of the Down­town Own­ers and Mer­chants As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Gre­go­ry Aboud. How­ev­er, he not­ed that there are signs sug­gest­ing a po­ten­tial turn­around in the com­ing weeks.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) con­firms a fire oc­curred at the Mal­oney Gar­dens Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment ear­ly this morn­ing. No one was hurt.

Two Mar­aval men were ar­rest­ed and are ex­pect­ed to be charged af­ter po­lice raid­ed a house used to grow and cul­ti­vate mar­i­jua­na on Fri­day.

Ch­agua­nas busi­ness­man Tariq Razak, 59, was gunned down out­side his busi­ness on the west­ern end of Er­ic Street on Sat­ur­day morn­ing. Res­i­dents re­port­ed hear­ing three loud ex­plo­sions short­ly af­ter 6 am, and Razak’s body, bear­ing gun­shot wounds to the head, was found wear­ing a blue shirt and blue trousers. His body was slumped next to a grey sedan parked out­side the com­pound gate. Rel­a­tives de­clined to speak to the me­dia.

A 40-year-old San­gre Grande man had to dive for cov­er when he was shot at by a gun­man near his home on Fri­day night.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the cir­cum­stances that led to the death of a sus­pect­ed ban­dit who tried to rob a La Hor­quet­ta gro­cery on Fri­day af­ter­noon.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert is ad­mit­ting to ad­di­tion­al cost over­runs at the ANR Robin­son Air­port which dif­fer from fig­ures he pro­vid­ed to jour­nal­ists dur­ing a me­dia con­fer­ence on Thurs­day. As of now, the cost is clos­er to TT$118 mil­lion (US$17.5 mil­lion) and not TT$16.9m (US$2.5m) he orig­i­nal­ly stat­ed.