A High Court judge has sen­tenced sev­en Venezue­lan na­tion­als to near­ly 16-and-a-half-years in jail, af­ter they were con­vict­ed of traf­fick­ing 72.56 kilo­grammes of co­caine in 2016.

The Min­is­ter of Trade and In­dus­try, Paula Gopee-Scoon, has as­sured mem­bers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Scrap Iron Deal­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTSI­DA) that her team would col­lab­o­rate with rel­e­vant agen­cies to re­solve li­cens­ing chal­lenges, ahead of the full im­ple­men­ta­tion of the Scrap Met­al Act 2022.

A con­trac­tor was gunned down in front of his Co­coyea Vil­lage, San Fer­nan­do home last night, more than a month af­ter he sur­vived an at­tempt on his life.

The Christ­mas edi­tion of the On the Pavers Con­certs se­ries host­ed by the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion will be back—on the pavers at Ed­u­ca­tion Tow­er on St Vin­cent Street in Port of Spain—this Fri­day, De­cem­ber 6, 2024.

In­cum­bent La Brea MP Stephen Mc Clashie yes­ter­day put on a brave face in the wake of the re­jec­tion of his can­di­da­cy for the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tions by the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) screen­ing com­mit­tee on Mon­day night at Bal­isi­er House.

Af­ter Laven­tille East/Mor­vant MP Adri­an Leonce opt­ed out of seek­ing an­oth­er term in the seat and the La Brea nom­i­nees were re­ject­ed, the PNM is now seek­ing nom­i­nees for both con­stituen­cies by De­cem­ber 20 and has al­so asked for To­ba­go East and West nom­i­nees by then.

In the ear­ly 2000s, Sher­ma Wil­son was part of a peace treaty among ri­val gang lead­ers in East Port-of-Spain or­gan­ised by then-prime min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning.

Hun­dreds of sup­port­ers left elat­ed af­ter the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s lat­est round of screen­ing for gen­er­al elec­tion can­di­dates on Mon­day.

UN­AIDS Mul­ti-coun­try Di­rec­tor Dr Richard Amenyah wants lo­cal phar­ma­cies to in­vest in an­ti­retro­vi­ral ther­a­py drug treat­ment to pre­vent the spread of HIV.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has cred­it­ed re­cent lead­er­ship changes with­in the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice’s To­ba­go Di­vi­sion for Mon­day’s his­toric $42 mil­lion nar­cotics haul at Pi­geon Point and the re­cent de­cline in se­ri­ous crimes.

For­mer chief mag­is­trate Mar­cia Ay­ers-Cae­sar will have to wait to learn the fate of her law­suit over her short-lived ju­di­cial ap­point­ment.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has dis­missed Op­po­si­tion leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s ac­cu­sa­tion of mis­man­age­ment of pub­lic funds on the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port De­vel­op­ment project, which she claims has in­curred $431 mil­lion in cost over­runs due to ex­ces­sive de­lays.