A me­chan­i­cal prob­lem af­fect­ing one of the pumps at the  Siparia Wa­ter Treat­ment Plant has dis­rupt­ed the wa­ter sup­ply to cus­tomers in parts of Siparia. Ac­cord­ing to a press re­lease from the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (the Au­thor­i­ty), emer­gency re­pair work is cur­rent­ly un­der­way and is ex­pect­ed to be com­plet­ed on Au­gust 12th. 

HA­VANA (AP) — Flames en­gulfed a fourth tank at an oil stor­age fa­cil­i­ty in west­ern Cu­ba on Tues­day as the rag­ing fire con­sumes crit­i­cal fu­el sup­plies on an is­land grap­pling with a grow­ing en­er­gy cri­sis.

The Po­lice Ser­vice is re­port­ing that a to­tal of 13 firearms have been tak­en off the streets and out of the hands of the crim­i­nal el­e­ments over the past four days.

The fol­low­ing is the bul­letin is­sued by the Met Ser­vice to 10:00 am, to­day, cov­er­ing the pe­ri­od this af­ter­noon and tonight…

A ham­mer is what po­lice be­lieve was used to kill Ka­reen Ram­lal whose de­com­pos­ing body was found in Pe­nal on Sun­day, six days af­ter she went miss­ing.

Two po­lice of­fi­cers charged in re­la­tion to the death of Po­lice Con­sta­ble Clarence Gilkes, who was shot dead while at­tempt­ing to ap­pre­hend a man in Diego Mar­tin in April, made their first court ap­pear­ance yes­ter­day.

Po­lice found a prison of­fi­cer's ve­hi­cle aban­doned in some bush­es less than 24 hours af­ter he re­port­ed it stolen from his yard in Bar­rack­pore.  

A 33-year-old man is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Princes Town Mag­is­trate to­day, charged with the mur­der of Amit Boodoo, which oc­curred on Fri­day 22nd Ju­ly, 2022.

A 52-year-old Diego Mar­tin man who was charged with sex­u­al touch­ing of a child was grant­ed $75,000 bail with a sure­ty by Jus­tice of the Peace Boodoo yes­ter­day, Mon­day 8 Au­gust 2022, ac­cord­ing to an of­fi­cial state­ment from the Po­lice Ser­vice.

Min­is­ter of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs, Sen­a­tor Dr. Amery Browne, vis­it­ed the Em­bassy of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca to sign the con­do­lence book opened in ho­n­our of for­mer Unit­ed States Am­bas­sador Joseph Mon­del­lo, who passed away on Au­gust 1, 2022 in New York.

The cy­clist killed along the San Fer­nan­do By-Pass on Sun­day night, has been iden­ti­fied  as Bran­don Ram­dass.

It will cost you $2 to use the wash­room at City Gate in Port-of-Spain from next week, the Pub­lic Trans­port Ser­vice Cor­po­ra­tion has an­nounced.