The Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries has con­firmed that an in­ves­ti­ga­tion has been launched in­to an in­ci­dent in the ear­ly hours of Sun­day morn­ing, dur­ing which a drilling rig op­er­at­ed by Well Ser­vices Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed col­lapsed.

En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Min­is­ter Stu­art Young is con­firm­ing that state owned oil and gas com­pa­ny Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Ltd is pro­vid­ing as­sis­tance to a pri­vate­ly op­er­at­ed rig af­ter a der­rick (which is a lift­ing de­vice) col­lapsed, send­ing work­ers over­board.

De­tails are still com­ing in but there are un­con­firmed re­ports that one work­er is un­ac­count­ed for.

Arch­bish­op Ja­son Gor­don has warned that cit­i­zens will have to sac­ri­fice for the na­tion to get a han­dle on crime. The head of the lo­cal Ro­man Catholic Church said crime must be treat­ed with the same lev­el of ur­gency and se­ri­ous­ness as the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic. He made the com­ments when he ap­peared on a spe­cial episode of CNC3’s The Big In­ter­view which airs tonight at 7.30 pm.

Sa­ha­daye Ram­nath, 63 was chopped about her face, head, hands and body. The as­sailant is be­lieved to be a 92-year-old man who is known to her.

Five weeks af­ter their homes were wrecked by floods, some res­i­dents of Bar­rack­pore, Pe­nal and Wood­land are yet to be com­pen­sat­ed.

Deputy po­lit­i­cal leader of HOPE, Karen Nunez-Tesheira, is not rul­ing out a part­ner­ship with the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) ahead of the gen­er­al elec­tions.

Af­ter he was re­leased from prison a few years ago, for­mer felony mur­der con­vict Wen­dell Sim­mons, 43, vowed nev­er to re­turn. How­ev­er, his plans for a new life came to a trag­ic end when he was shot to death in Clax­ton Bay.

THA ac­cus­es Warn­er of fi­nan­cial mis­con­duct, Warn­er claims THA not pay­ing for com­plet­ed work

There have been no ar­rests yet in the mur­der of Cou­va moth­er of two Sher­ryann Roett who was bru­tal­ly beat­en and then hung from a tree.

The grand­moth­er of a 16-year-old boy, who was ac­ci­den­tal­ly shot and killed by his 15-year-old cousin while they were film­ing them­selves play­ing with a firearm they found on Fri­day, is warn­ing against the unchecked use of so­cial me­dia by chil­dren. 

Pres­i­dent Joe Biden signed a bill in­to law Sat­ur­day that averts a gov­ern­ment shut­down, bring­ing a fi­nal close to days of up­heaval af­ter Con­gress ap­proved a tem­po­rary fund­ing plan just past the dead­line and re­fused Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump’s core debt de­mands in the pack­age.