Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Al­der­man Vil­liana Ra­moutars­ingh clashed with San Fer­nan­do May­or Robert Par­ris yes­ter­day af­ter she was blocked from rais­ing a se­ries of ques­tions at a statu­to­ry meet­ing, prompt­ing a pub­lic con­fronta­tion over fi­nan­cial trans­paren­cy, mar­ket con­di­tions and the treat­ment of ca­su­al work­ers.

Airstrikes bat­tered Iran and Iran­ian mis­siles and drones tar­get­ed Is­rael and sites across the Mideast on Tues­day, even as Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said the Unit­ed States was in talks with the Is­lam­ic Re­pub­lic to end the war.

A 26-year-old ma­chine op­er­a­tor was beat­en un­con­scious af­ter at­tempt­ing to break up a fight be­tween two co-work­ers out­side Sun­shine Snacks in Barataria.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing in­to the cause of a fire at Cara­pichaima West Sec­ondary School, even as al­le­ga­tions have sur­faced that Form Five stu­dents may have been in­volved.

CARI­COM gov­ern­ments are prepar­ing to send hu­man­i­tar­i­an aid to Cu­ba fol­low­ing a de­ci­sion an­nounced by CARI­COM chair­man Dr Ter­rance Drew at the 50th Reg­u­lar Meet­ing of the Con­fer­ence of Heads of Gov­ern­ment in St Kitts and Nevis from 24 to 27 Feb­ru­ary 2026.

The Min­istry of Health has con­firmed a case of yel­low fever in a de­ceased Red Howler mon­key fol­low­ing lab­o­ra­to­ry test­ing, while as­sur­ing the pub­lic that there are cur­rent­ly no re­port­ed hu­man in­fec­tions.

The Diego Mar­tin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion ho­n­oured 20 top-per­form­ing Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) stu­dents dur­ing an awards cer­e­mo­ny held on Thurs­day 19th March at the Diego Mar­tin South Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre.

A 26-year-old man was found dead in bush­es near his home in New Grant, Princes Town, on Mon­day af­ter rel­a­tives raised con­cern about his con­di­tion.

A DG Homes ma­chine op­er­a­tor was shot and killed af­ter leav­ing a cab­in at a Matu­ra re­sort to get ice ear­ly on Mon­day night, as gun­men con­tin­ue tar­get­ing peo­ple linked to slain busi­ness­man Dan­ny Guer­ra.

A serv­ing po­lice of­fi­cer has been placed un­der pre­ven­tive de­ten­tion, af­ter be­ing iden­ti­fied for sup­ply­ing op­er­a­tional in­tel­li­gence to or­gan­ised crime groups, cre­at­ing a risk of im­mi­nent at­tacks be­tween ri­val gangs us­ing high-pow­ered firearms in pub­lic spaces.

The with­draw­al of Unit­ed States mil­i­tary per­son­nel from To­ba­go con­tin­ued yes­ter­day with the de­par­ture of a large con­tin­gent aboard an At­las Air air­craft.

Blood­shed con­tin­ues de­spite the State of Emer­gency (SoE), as the teenage son of late Sea Lots com­mu­ni­ty leader Cedric “Burkie” Burke was among three youths killed when gun­men stormed a house in Pe­nal yes­ter­day.