Hin­dus in T&T joined with mil­lions of devo­tees around the world to cel­e­brate the fes­ti­val of Ganesh Ut­sav on Thurs­day.

Coun­cil­lors and al­der­men from both po­lit­i­cal par­ties put aside their dif­fer­ences and fo­cused on the youths of Va­len­cia by par­tic­i­pat­ing joint­ly in a Sports and Fam­i­ly Day held at Va­len­cia Recre­ation Ground on Re­pub­lic Day.

Ma­jor an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions con­duct­ed in the East­ern Di­vi­sion have led to the ar­rest of five per­sons and re­cov­ery of three guns.

One man is dead, and a San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion work­er is in hos­pi­tal af­ter a gun­man opened fire on them in Pleas­antville, on Thurs­day morn­ing.

Stolen Pro­duc­tions Lim­it­ed (SPL), the pageant fran­chise hold­er for Miss Grand In­ter­na­tion­al, has dis­tanced it­self from al­le­ga­tions made by Milei­dy Mat­er­a­no, who an­nounced on Wednes­day that she was giv­ing up her crown due to spon­sor­ship is­sues.

The West In­dies Women got their tour of Aus­tralia off to a win­ning start with a 4-wick­et vic­to­ry over a New South Wales (NSW) Women's team at Wil­son Park.

A dri­ve-by shoot­ing in Co­corite has claimed the life of a man on Tues­day night. The vic­tim has been iden­ti­fied as Chad Paul.

The fol­low­ing is the bul­letin is­sued by the Met Ser­vice to 06:00 am, to­day, cov­er­ing the pe­ri­od: to­day un­til mid­night…

Venezue­lan-born Milei­dy Mat­er­a­no, who was con­tro­ver­sial­ly crowned Miss Grand In­ter­na­tion­al T&T a few weeks ago and was sched­uled to rep­re­sent the coun­try in Viet­nam next month, has stepped down.

Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Dr Amery Browne is wait­ing for a re­port on the dis­ap­pear­ance and pos­si­ble theft of the re­cent­ly in­stalled Trinidad and To­ba­go Street sign in Queens, New York.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says he is pre­pared to con­vince Par­lia­ment to sup­port and pass the To­ba­go Au­ton­o­my Bill, fol­low­ing Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo’s call for au­ton­o­my for the is­land.

Re­tired head of the pub­lic ser­vice Regi­nald Du­mas has raised eye­brows over Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo’s de­ci­sion to bold­ly call for sup­port of To­ba­go’s jour­ney to au­ton­o­my.