A stock­yard own­er was kid­napped in Ch­agua­nas yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, min­utes af­ter he ar­rived to de­liv­er a load of sand for a cus­tomer.

Pris­ons Com­mis­sion­er Car­los Cor­raspe says an in­ves­ti­ga­tion has found there is no truth to the claim that Han­nah Mathu­ra’s moth­er, Alana Mathu­ra, was raped while in­car­cer­at­ed.

Two days af­ter the body of a miss­ing Cou­va man was found in the Ca­roni Riv­er, an­oth­er grue­some dis­cov­ery has been made.

Chloe Ram­nar­ine, a Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies stu­dent, has re­ceived 49 per cent of the funds need­ed for a life-sav­ing bone mar­row surgery in Colom­bia.

One cou­ple is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to amend its poli­cies when it comes to the death and dis­pos­al of pre­ma­ture ba­bies.

Cari­com lead­ers have agreed to strength­en re­la­tions with In­dia in ar­eas in­clud­ing so­lar en­er­gy, high-yield­ing seeds and oth­er agri­cul­ture in­no­va­tions, gener­ic med­i­cines and can­cer ther­a­py as well as track­ing sar­gas­sum sea­weed.

Act­ing Prime Min­is­ter and En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has de­fend­ed the Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries’ (MEEI) $47.5 mil­lion ex­pen­di­ture on le­gal fees. He al­so em­pha­sised the crit­i­cal role played by in­ter­na­tion­al law firm White and Case LLP in se­cur­ing bil­lions in ad­di­tion­al rev­enue for T&T.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTP­SWA) has of­fi­cial­ly joined the on­go­ing le­gal bat­tle sur­round­ing the pro­mo­tion as­sess­ment process to the rank of As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dent of Po­lice (ASP).

The 29th Con­fer­ence of Par­ties (COP29) threat­ens to go in­to over­time as ne­go­tia­tors strug­gle to agree on cli­mate fi­nance. The Unit­ed Na­tions Cli­mate Change Con­fer­ence is sup­posed to wrap up in Baku, Azer­bai­jan, to­day but up to late last night, ne­go­tia­tors were still un­clear on a way for­ward to com­pro­mise. New text from the COP29 pres­i­den­cy is ex­pect­ed to be re­leased this morn­ing in Baku though sev­er­al ne­go­tia­tors from small is­land states are pes­simistic it will draw both sides of the di­vide clos­er.

Min­is­ter of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices (MS­DFS) Don­na Cox is con­cerned par­ents are not sup­port­ing their chil­dren men­tal­ly and emo­tion­al­ly. Speak­ing at City Hall in Port-of-Spain Wednes­day, Cox launched the Par­ent­ing Pro­gramme Work­shop. Cox said the work­shop was de­signed to sup­port and em­pow­er fam­i­lies across T&T. 

Two weeks af­ter the head of the An­ti-Kid­nap­ping Unit (AKU) urged the pub­lic to re­frain from shar­ing too much per­son­al in­for­ma­tion on­line, se­nior po­lice of­fi­cers agreed that ex­tor­tion vic­tims were some­times re­spon­si­ble for lead­ing these per­pe­tra­tors right to their door via their so­cial me­dia posts. They re­vealed that some peo­ple were even be­ing ex­tort­ed by rel­a­tives.

Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump’s al­lies on Capi­tol Hill ral­lied around Pe­te Hegseth, Trump’s Pen­ta­gon pick, on Thurs­day even as new de­tails sur­faced about al­le­ga­tions that he had sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ed a woman in 2017.