A woman who al­leged­ly stabbed her com­mon-law hus­band to death dur­ing an al­ter­ca­tion has been charged with manslaugh­ter.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe says he will ini­ti­ate in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to com­plaints at the Med­ical Records De­part­ment at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal af­ter staff mem­bers raised al­le­ga­tions of un­safe work­ing con­di­tions, nepo­tism, and vic­tim­i­sa­tion.

The man, whose iden­ti­ty was with­held based on the na­ture of the case and its even­tu­al out­come, was ac­quit­ted of the sex­u­al pen­e­tra­tion of a mi­nor charge at the end of his judge-alone tri­al be­fore Jus­tice Lisa Ram­sumair-Hinds on Mon­day.

Op­po­si­tion mem­bers are stand­ing unit­ed against the Gov­ern­ment’s cam­paign promise to re­move the de­mer­it point sys­tem. 

The Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion is re­call­ing all Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route (PBR) Let­ter Per­mits num­bered 0001 through 0645, ren­der­ing them in­valid from Ju­ly 1, 2025.

Ve­ra Melville is thank­ful to fire of­fi­cers for sav­ing her home and the life of her in­ca­pac­i­tat­ed daugh­ter.

A burnt body was dis­cov­ered in the bush­es along Buen In­ten­to Road in Princes Town yes­ter­day morn­ing, send­ing shock­waves through the usu­al­ly qui­et area. 

Is­raeli forces fired on peo­ple as they head­ed to­ward an aid dis­tri­b­u­tion site in Gaza on Tues­day, killing at least 27, Pales­tin­ian health of­fi­cials and wit­ness­es said, in the third such shoot­ing in three days. The army said it fired “near a few in­di­vid­ual sus­pects” who left the des­ig­nat­ed route, ap­proached its forces and ig­nored warn­ing shots.

Tai­wan is pro­vid­ing sev­en mil­lion dol­lars (One EC dol­lar=US$0.37 cents) to St. Lu­cia to ad­dress var­i­ous so­cial and de­vel­op­men­tal needs in com­mu­ni­ties through­out the is­land.

Min­is­ter of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices, Van­dana Mo­hit, says she worked in­for­mal­ly over the long-week­end with a team from the Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NIBTT) to re­duce the back­log of queries pend­ing in­for­ma­tion for the pro­cess­ing of so­cial wel­fare grants, in­clud­ing the se­nior cit­i­zens’ pen­sion.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les wants more in­for­ma­tion about what the pro­posed Stand Your Ground leg­is­la­tion will look like, stress­ing the crit­i­cal need for pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion be­fore the gov­ern­ment pro­ceeds.

Op­po­si­tion PNM mem­bers are stand­ing unit­ed against the UNC gov­ern­ment’s cam­paign promise to re­move the de­mer­it point sys­tem. Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les said any amend­ments to the law must be done with con­sul­ta­tion.