A 99-year-old pen­sion­er was killed in a fire that broke out at her home in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day.

The Re­gion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Ad­vis­er of the Unit­ed Na­tions (UN), Paulo Ro­drigues, is­sued a strong warn­ing about Trinidad and To­ba­go’s crime sit­u­a­tion as he ad­dressed the 6th Caribbean Judges' Fo­rum on HIV, Hu­man Rights and the Law at the Hy­att Re­gency, Port-of-Spain, on Tues­day.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said around 6:15 pm of­fi­cers of the Port-of-Spain Task Force re­spond­ed to a re­port of a man seen ly­ing on the road at Fos­ter Queve­do Block 8.

Rel­a­tives of 44-year-old Jamie Mo­hammed are seek­ing the pub­lic's as­sis­tance in find­ing her.  

Don­ald Trump's im­pend­ing re­turn to the White House means he’ll want to stand up an en­tire­ly new ad­min­is­tra­tion from the one that served un­der Pres­i­dent Joe Biden. His team is al­so pledg­ing that the sec­ond won’t look much like the first one Trump es­tab­lished af­ter his 2016 vic­to­ry.

Less than an hour away from T&T lies our clos­est Caribbean neigh­bour – Grena­da aka the Spice Isle. Grena­da and T&T share strong her­itage links, and vis­it­ing the coun­try is like vis­it­ing a home away from home. Blessed with beau­ti­ful vis­tas and friend­ly peo­ple, Grena­da is one place that should be on every­one’s trav­el list. And when you get there, here are 5 things you should def­i­nite­ly do.

Res­i­dents in parts of South and Cen­tral Trinidad will have to fur­ther man­age their wa­ter used as the Point Lisas De­sali­na­tion Plant will shut down for main­te­nance from Mon­day.

As U.S. Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump pre­pares for his sec­ond term in of­fice, Chi­na is brac­ing for un­pre­dictabil­i­ty in its ties with the Unit­ed States.

Bar­ba­dos’ Prime Min­is­ter Mia Amor Mot­t­ley says she is keen for the is­land to re­sume air­lift with Ger­many, West­ern Eu­rope, and Scan­di­navia, and is op­ti­mistic that the Hon­orary Con­sul to Ger­many, Regi­na Sixt, can use her busi­ness con­nec­tions to achieve this.

The Mathu­ra fam­i­ly is ask­ing the me­dia and by ex­ten­sion the pub­lic for pri­va­cy and time to cope with the death of their sis­ter and moth­er as well as their fa­ther’s ar­rest.

A 35-year-old man from Point Fortin has been ac­quit­ted of rap­ing his sis­ter's 12-year-old step­daugh­ter.

Foul play has been ruled out in the deaths of a Ce­dros man and Pe­nal woman whose bod­ies were dis­cov­ered in sep­a­rate in­ci­dents last week.