For­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment Na­tion­al Youth Of­fi­cer Dane Wil­son has called on Ari­ma May­or Bal­li­ram Ma­haraj to say why he chose to at­tend a Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress fundrais­er Christ­mas din­ner in­stead of his Ari­ma Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion Christ­mas din­ner, adding that in his view, Ma­haraj’s ac­tions would war­rant re­fer­ral to the par­ty’s in­ves­ti­ga­tion com­mit­tee on dis­ci­pli­nary mat­ters.

Po­lice have launched a homi­cide in­ves­ti­ga­tion af­ter the bad­ly burnt body of a man was dis­cov­ered near a torched ve­hi­cle along Rail­way Road, Re­form, Ste Madeleine, yes­ter­day.

The Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture and Fish­eries last week be­gan dis­trib­ut­ing tree crops un­der the Biore­ach Project, ad­vanc­ing Gov­ern­ment’s ef­forts to pro­mote sus­tain­able agri­cul­ture, cli­mate re­silience and food se­cu­ri­ty.

The Col­lege of Sci­ence, Tech­nol­o­gy and Ap­plied Arts of Trinidad and To­ba­go has is­sued a state­ment re­gard­ing so­cial me­dia com­ments at­trib­uted to an em­ploy­ee.

Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment Bar­ry Padarath is­sued a state­ment to­day sup­port­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­gard­ing her re­cent com­ments on re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty and for­eign pol­i­cy. Padarath stat­ed the gov­ern­ment stands with Per­sad-Bisses­sar as she con­fronts na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty chal­lenges. He said the Prime Min­is­ter is demon­strat­ing that diplo­ma­cy in­volves bold lead­er­ship and strate­gic al­liances rather than pas­sive ob­ser­va­tion.

Prime Min­is­ter of An­tigua and Bar­bu­da, Gas­ton Browne, is­sued a state­ment to­day re­spond­ing to re­marks by Trinidad and To­ba­go Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar con­cern­ing CARI­COM and in­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions. Prime Min­is­ter Browne said An­tigua and Bar­bu­da re­spects the sov­er­eign right of CARI­COM mem­bers to con­duct bi­lat­er­al re­la­tions but ex­pects the same re­spect for its own en­gage­ments with the Unit­ed States.

For­mer Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter and for­mer po­lit­i­cal leader of the Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) Gary Grif­fith says re­ports that a sus­pect­ed US mil­i­tary base in To­ba­go would on­ly serve to fur­ther se­cure this coun­try from mil­i­tary ag­gres­sion, but felt that trans­paren­cy and clear mes­sag­ing was need­ed on the part of the gov­ern­ment.

An ac­ci­dent in St Joseph ear­ly on Sun­day morn­ing end­ed with the death of an uniden­ti­fied man and an­oth­er in crit­i­cal con­di­tion at hos­pi­tal, po­lice said.

For­mer Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has is­sued a state­ment crit­i­cis­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, her gov­ern­ment, and re­cent po­si­tions on for­eign re­la­tions, re­gion­al en­gage­ment and na­tion­al sov­er­eign­ty.

In 2022, the air­line in­dus­try ac­count­ed for 2 per cent of the world’s car­bon emis­sions. But, for an in­dus­try with a stat­ed goal to achieve net ze­ro CO2 emis­sions by 2050, 2 per cent is two too much.

Dionne Ovid’s house­hold is all about tra­di­tion, es­pe­cial­ly when it comes to Christ­mas good­ies. So much so that the fam­i­ly’s Ponche de Crème recipe has ex­tend­ed its tra­di­tion­al reach to Ovid’s med­ical team at the San­gre Grande hos­pi­tal, where she works as a crit­i­cal care nurse.

A 29-year-old man was shot and killed dur­ing a rob­bery in the ear­ly hours of yes­ter­day dur­ing an in­ci­dent in Chi­nese Vil­lage, La Brea.