Rel­a­tives of a woman who re­port­ed­ly kid­napped an 11-month-old ba­by boy and took him to To­ba­go, where she hand­ed him over to her ex-boyfriend, ex­pressed shock as they at­tempt­ed to process the bizarre act.

The Gov­ern­ment has de­cid­ed to “re­strain” Vy­bz Kar­tel from per­form­ing some songs deemed to be vul­gar when he vis­its this coun­try lat­er this month for a con­cert. It is al­so con­sid­er­ing in­sti­tut­ing an age lim­it for those at­tend­ing the event. The de­ci­sion comes as the Ja­maican dance­hall artiste, re­al name, Adid­ja Palmer, said he had no is­sue with the re­stric­tions be­ing im­posed on him in T&T.

Crim­i­nol­o­gist and for­mer chair­man of the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC) Prof Ramesh De­osaran says the Gov­ern­ment has a re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to make clear its stance on the re­sump­tion of the death penal­ty.

T&T Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) pres­i­dent Mar­tin Lum Kin is con­cerned that the re-in­tro­duc­tion of the lap­top pro­gramme by the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress-led Gov­ern­ment could lead to mis­use and what he called aca­d­e­m­ic dis­hon­esty.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo be­lieves the Prime Min­is­ter has been pel­lu­cid on Gov­ern­ment’s po­si­tion on prop­er­ty tax re­funds for those who have al­ready paid.

Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen says she is in­tro­duc­ing a sig­nif­i­cant change in the Gov­ern­ment’s com­mu­ni­ca­tion strat­e­gy re­gard­ing dis­as­ter pre­pared­ness and shel­ter alerts.

Com­ing off a dead­ly year of dengue fever out­breaks, Min­is­ter of Health Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe has as­sured the pub­lic that all chem­i­cals, equip­ment and ma­chin­ery re­quired for mos­qui­to erad­i­ca­tion are avail­able.

A Car­ni­val con­sul­ta­tion in Scar­bor­ough on Thurs­day night brought a clear mes­sage that To­ba­go’s Oc­to­ber Car­ni­val needs bet­ter plan­ning, stronger poli­cies, and ear­li­er ex­e­cu­tion.

The car parts pro­pri­etor was iden­ti­fied as Mario Maraj, 37, of Rod­ney Road, Or­ange­field Road, Cara­pichaima, while the sec­ond de­ceased, be­lieved to be one of the sus­pects, re­mained uniden­ti­fied up to yes­ter­day.

A 22-year-old man from Pe­nal will spend the next nine years in prison af­ter ad­mit­ting to stab­bing a neigh­bour to death in an al­ter­ca­tion in 2023. 

Hours af­ter be­ing freed of mur­der­ing two men due to de­lays in pros­e­cut­ing his case, a man from Ari­ma was ar­rest­ed and charged with the crime once again.

A 25-year-old man is be­ing treat­ed at the hos­pi­tal af­ter he was shot while rid­ing his bi­cy­cle near a veg­etable stall in Rio Claro on Thurs­day night.