A man, who ad­mit­ted to rap­ing a French tourist dur­ing a home in­va­sion in 2009 af­ter his rel­a­tive suf­fered a sim­i­lar at­tack, has been sen­tenced to 14 years in prison.

Days af­ter a com­mer­cial flight was al­most hit by a drone while prepar­ing to land at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan says the laws sur­round­ing drones may need to be stricter.

Dance­hall King, Adid­ja "Vy­bz Kar­tel" Palmer has part­nered with Amer­i­can Stores and the Help Me Help You Foun­da­tion here in Trinidad to bring some "Christ­mas cheer" to the peo­ple of T&T.

An­tigua-based air­line LI­AT20 has be­gun sched­uled ser­vice to Trinidad. LI­AT20’s 5N-BUV, an Em­braer ERJ-145 op­er­at­ing as 5L365, touched down at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port on Thurs­day with 15 pas­sen­gers on board from An­tigua.

A 31-year-old Venezue­lan na­tion­al cur­rent­ly is in po­lice cus­tody fol­low­ing his ar­rest dur­ing an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion con­duct­ed in the Cunu­pia Po­lice Dis­trict on Wednes­day, De­cem­ber 18, 2024.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is seek­ing the ur­gent as­sis­tance of the pub­lic in lo­cat­ing 16-year-old CHRISTI­NA DES­TINY CATO, who has been re­port­ed miss­ing to the Las Lo­mas Po­lice Sta­tion.

Ari­ma may­or Bal­li­ram Ma­haraj and mem­bers of the Ari­ma Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion gath­ered to sign the con­do­lence book at the Of­fice of the Ari­ma Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion for for­mer Ari­ma may­or Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian.

The main sus­pect in the mur­der of vet­er­an court re­porter Bar­bara Gayle was ar­rest­ed by po­lice late Wednes­day, af­ter he was found hid­ing in bush­es in the cen­tral parish of St Cather­ine.

The Yel­low Lev­el Ad­verse Weath­er Alert has now been ex­tend­ed and is ex­pect­ed to re­main in ef­fect un­til 10 am on De­cem­ber 20.

Pres­i­dent of Ja­maica Pro­mo­tions Cor­po­ra­tion (JAM­PRO), Shul­lette Cox, said there has been a 26 per cent in­crease in trade be­tween the two na­tions, com­pared to the pre­vi­ous year.

Threat­ened with im­pris­on­ment and de­cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, the Oil­fields Work­ers Trade Union Pres­i­dent Gen­er­al An­cel Ro­get is deny­ing that work­ers are tak­ing in­dus­tri­al ac­tion, as­sur­ing there will be a re­li­able sup­ply of elec­tric­i­ty for Christ­mas, once the Com­mis­sion pro­vides prop­er tools and equip­ment.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) says that per­sis­tent rain­fall in parts of North Trinidad and To­ba­go has af­fect­ed op­er­a­tions at some of their sur­face wa­ter treat­ment fa­cil­i­ties.