A fire ear­ly Fri­day morn­ing at the Amer­i­jet ware­house fa­cil­i­ty at the South Ter­mi­nal of Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port has led to the tem­po­rary sus­pen­sion of all flight op­er­a­tions, ac­cord­ing to the Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Chi­na an­nounced Fri­day that it will raise tar­iffs on U.S. goods from 84% to 125% — the lat­est sal­vo in an es­ca­lat­ing trade war be­tween the world’s two largest economies that has rat­tled mar­kets and raised fears of a glob­al slow­down.

UNC leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has pledged to pay for­mer Ca­roni pri­vate cane farm­ers the en­tire out­stand­ing sum of $110 mil­lion that was due to them - and she's ques­tion­ing if Gov­ern­ment has sold the Port of Port-of-Spain.

Sanatan Dhar­ma Ma­ha Sab­ha (SDMS) sec­re­tary gen­er­al Vi­jay Ma­haraj has fired back at one po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst, main­tain­ing that his or­gan­i­sa­tion does not align nor en­dorse any po­lit­i­cal par­ty, in­clud­ing the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC).

Al­ready bur­dened with health chal­lenges, Gas­par­il­lo sib­lings Ram­nath and Sookeah Bheem met a trag­ic end yes­ter­day morn­ing af­ter a dev­as­tat­ing fire con­sumed their home along Bonne Aven­ture Road.

A to­tal of 14 peo­ple, who were in­car­cer­at­ed un­der the au­thor­i­ty of a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) dur­ing the State of Emer­gency (SoE), are to be charged on or be­fore Sun­day, when it is due to ex­pire.

Act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Ju­nior Ben­jamin has de­nied there is a leave re­stric­tion pol­i­cy in place for the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

Apart from a bush­fire that caused a slight de­lay at an ex­am cen­tre in the Ca­roni Ed­u­ca­tion Dis­trict, yes­ter­day’s Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am was in­ci­dent-free.

Af­ter two years of prepa­ra­tion for the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA), thou­sands of pri­ma­ry school stu­dents across South Trinidad wore smiles of re­lief as they com­plet­ed the ex­am­i­na­tions that some de­scribed as easy.

TTUTA To­ba­go of­fi­cer, Bradon Roberts ex­pressed con­cern yes­ter­day that PNM To­ba­go West can­di­date Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis chose to make pub­lic an is­sue raised by some par­ents about clocks to be­gin the SEA ex­am.

The $15 mil­lion Lopinot His­tor­i­cal Cen­tre is ex­pect­ed to be com­plet­ed in two or three weeks, and Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Arou­ca/Lopinot can­di­date Mar­vin Gon­za­les is hop­ing it will be opened be­fore the Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

De­spite a for­mer pre­sid­ing of­fi­cer los­ing out on any fur­ther prospects of a job with the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) af­ter pub­licly en­dors­ing Fos­ter Cum­mings on March 20, the in­cum­bent La Hor­quet­ta/Tal­paro MP be­lieves the Com­mis­sion did ex­act­ly what it was sup­posed to do.