For­mer Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) leader Prakash Ra­mad­har is back as in­ter­im leader of the par­ty.

A $15,000 do­na­tion to the Rape Cri­sis So­ci­ety of T&T has earned a con­vict­ed rapist a two-year re­duc­tion in his sen­tence.

Three days af­ter D’Abadie/O’Meara MP Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian and two of her chil­dren per­ished in a fire which gut­ted their home at Far­fan Street, Ari­ma, foul play has been ruled out.

Tabaquite MP and shad­ow ed­u­ca­tion min­is­ter Ani­ta Haynes-Al­leyne yes­ter­day urged the pub­lic to care­ful­ly eval­u­ate the rhetoric used by some politi­cians in the af­ter­math of Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian’s trag­ic death, sug­gest­ing it should in­flu­ence how they vote in the fu­ture.

Mem­bers of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment and its Women’s League, who were all dressed in white, yes­ter­day gath­ered at Bal­isi­er House in Port-of-Spain to ho­n­our late Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion and Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for D’Abadie/O’Meara, Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian, and two of her chil­dren.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) has al­ready paid over $1.1 mil­lion to the All To­ba­go Fish­er­folk As­so­ci­a­tion (AT­FA) for its role in the oil spill clean-up ear­li­er this year.

Heavy rains in To­ba­go yes­ter­day caused ma­jor prob­lems, with blocked roads, flood­ing, and pow­er out­ages af­fect­ing sev­er­al ar­eas.

Days af­ter T&TEC ob­tained an ex­tend­ed in­junc­tion to pre­vent pick­et­ing, the Oil­field Work­ers Trade Union (OW­TU) is deny­ing al­le­ga­tions of any im­pend­ing in­dus­tri­al ac­tion.

A man from south Trinidad has lost his law­suit against Petrotrin and its suc­ces­sor Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny over un­paid rent for two pipelines on his land.

The Cab­i­net is free to de­cide whether or not to grant Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher a fi­nal one-year ex­ten­sion when she cel­e­brates her 62nd birth­day on May 14, next year.

For­mer Pub­lic Ser­vice head Reynold Coop­er is find­ing it “very dif­fi­cult” to un­der­stand how a pub­lic ser­vant could have in­clud­ed the con­tro­ver­sial amend­ment in the Se­nior Cit­i­zens’ Pen­sion and Pub­lic As­sis­tance Bill with­out the knowl­edge of the line min­is­ter.

Truck dri­ver Ronald Marchan left his home to do an hon­est day’s work but nev­er re­turned home. He was stabbed by a man eight times as he de­liv­ered goods to a gro­cery in Point Fortin on Wednes­day.