The re­cent deaths of Ashan­ti Ri­ley and An­drea Bharatt are the "fi­nal straw that broke the camel’s back” ac­cord­ing to Syn­er­gy TV host and mem­ber of the Can­dle­light Move­ment, Stephan Reis.

The Min­istry of Works and Trans­port is work­ing very hard to en­sure that the coun­try’s roads are main­tained says Works Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan.

Kathy-Ann Gomez-Walk­er's melan­choly eyes gazed lov­ing­ly at pho­tographs of her 17-year-old daugh­ter Teri Gomez who dis­ap­peared with­out a trace 13 years ago, leav­ing a two-year-old ba­by girl be­hind.

One of the longest ex­ist­ing steel bands in San Fer­nan­do, the Hat­ter’s Steel Or­ches­tra con­tin­ues to suf­fer un­prece­dent­ed hard­ships twofold.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a dou­ble mur­der and wound­ing with in­tent at Arou­ca dur­ing the ear­ly hours of Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

Sep­tem­ber 2000. More than 20 years have passed since that date. But Ryan Cave’s mem­o­ries of his first few days at North East­ern Col­lege in San­gre Grande re­main as fresh as ever.

Two days of heavy rain caused dev­as­ta­tion to 200 acres of crops at Poodai La­goon, Good­man Branch Trace, Pe­nal and has af­fect­ed more than 60 veg­etable farm­ers.

A fish­er­man in the Blan­chisseuse area sprung in­to ac­tion on Fri­day in a bid to save a group of hik­ers who got in­to dif­fi­cul­ties while swim­ming at Tur­tle Rock Bay, in the vicin­i­ty of Paria Bay. How­ev­er, one of them drowned. The fish­er­man, de­spite the rough and chop­py wa­ters, still man­aged to re­trieve the vic­tim's body.

Di­rec­tor of Women's Health Dr Adesh Sir­jus­ingh at­tend­ed Sat­ur­day's Min­istry of Health COVID-19 up­date and said that in 2020, dur­ing the height of the pan­dem­ic lock­down, there were over 15,000 de­liv­er­ies in the pub­lic and pri­vate health care sys­tem.

A to­tal of 1,831 Sus­pi­cious Trans­ac­tion and Sus­pi­cious Ac­tiv­i­ty re­ports worth $27 bil­lion were re­ceived over 2019 to 2020 by the Fi­nan­cial In­tel­li­gence Unit of Trinidad and To­ba­go - the most it has re­ceived in its 10-year his­to­ry.

New tint reg­u­la­tions are now sup­posed to take ef­fect on June 7 af­ter Work and Trans­port Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan yes­ter­day agreed to ex­tend the mora­to­ri­um on the new law.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) To­ba­go Coun­cil leader Tra­cy David­son-Ce­les­tine says sev­er­al To­bag­o­ni­ans have raised con­cerns over the con­di­tions of the Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots’ (PDP) pow­er-shar­ing pro­pos­al to man­age the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly. In par­tic­u­lar, they fear the prospect of Wat­son Duke be­com­ing Fi­nance Sec­re­tary.