Daniel Best is the new pres­i­dent of the Caribbean De­vel­op­ment Bank (CDB). The Board of Gov­er­nors of the CDB an­nounced the re­sults of its elec­tion on Wednes­day.

When po­lice ar­rived at the lo­ca­tion, they found Luke slumped over in a ve­hi­cle, with gun­shot wounds about his body.

On Dec. 4, 1991, af­ter be­ing ab­duct­ed and held for near­ly sev­en years as a hostage by Hezbol­lah mil­i­tants in Lebanon, As­so­ci­at­ed Press cor­re­spon­dent Ter­ry An­der­son was re­leased from cap­tiv­i­ty.

A Ch­agua­nas woman was grant­ed bail with sure­ty when she ap­peared be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court charged with pos­ses­sion of pro­hib­it­ed ar­ti­cles and traf­fick­ing in mar­i­jua­na at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre.

***South Ko­re­an Pres­i­dent Yoon Suk Yeol said ear­ly Wednes­day that he would soon lift the mil­i­tary rule he im­posed overnight, af­ter the par­lia­ment vot­ed to re­ject his mar­tial law de­c­la­ra­tion***

Crys­tal Palace cap­tain Marc Gue­hi will face no for­mal ac­tion from the Eng­lish Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion de­spite de­fy­ing its rules for a sec­ond time by writ­ing a re­li­gious mes­sage on his uni­form dur­ing a Pre­mier League cam­paign cel­e­brat­ing LGBTQ+ in­clu­sion.

A High Court judge has sen­tenced sev­en Venezue­lan na­tion­als to near­ly 16-and-a-half-years in jail, af­ter they were con­vict­ed of traf­fick­ing 72.56 kilo­grammes of co­caine in 2016.

The Min­is­ter of Trade and In­dus­try, Paula Gopee-Scoon, has as­sured mem­bers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Scrap Iron Deal­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTSI­DA) that her team would col­lab­o­rate with rel­e­vant agen­cies to re­solve li­cens­ing chal­lenges, ahead of the full im­ple­men­ta­tion of the Scrap Met­al Act 2022.

A con­trac­tor was gunned down in front of his Co­coyea Vil­lage, San Fer­nan­do home last night, more than a month af­ter he sur­vived an at­tempt on his life.

The Christ­mas edi­tion of the On the Pavers Con­certs se­ries host­ed by the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion will be back—on the pavers at Ed­u­ca­tion Tow­er on St Vin­cent Street in Port of Spain—this Fri­day, De­cem­ber 6, 2024.

In­cum­bent La Brea MP Stephen Mc Clashie yes­ter­day put on a brave face in the wake of the re­jec­tion of his can­di­da­cy for the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tions by the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) screen­ing com­mit­tee on Mon­day night at Bal­isi­er House.

Af­ter Laven­tille East/Mor­vant MP Adri­an Leonce opt­ed out of seek­ing an­oth­er term in the seat and the La Brea nom­i­nees were re­ject­ed, the PNM is now seek­ing nom­i­nees for both con­stituen­cies by De­cem­ber 20 and has al­so asked for To­ba­go East and West nom­i­nees by then.