In­ves­ti­ga­tors said around 10 am, Fran­cis and a close fe­male rel­a­tive were in­volved in an ar­gu­ment at their George Street apart­ment, and as ten­sions es­ca­lat­ed, the woman re­port­ed­ly grabbed a knife and be­gan stab­bing Fran­cis about the body.

Clin­i­cal psy­chol­o­gist, Van­dana Siew Sankar-Ali, has warned that try­ing chil­dren as adults in a court of law can back­fire on the coun­try.

A col­li­sion be­tween a ten-wheel­er truck and an H-100 pick­up in San­gre Grande has left one per­son se­ri­ous­ly in­jured.

Two men am­bushed a 47-year-old man be­fore beat­ing and stab­bing him dur­ing an at­tack at Bor­de Narve Vil­lage, San Fer­nan­do, on Sat­ur­day night.

T&T’s ef­forts to re­vive the long-stalled Drag­on gas deal have reached a de­ci­sive turn­ing point, with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar ex­press­ing her will­ing­ness to per­son­al­ly trav­el to Venezuela to ini­ti­ate ne­go­ti­a­tions.

San Fer­nan­do ca­lyp­so­ni­ans are re­new­ing their call for the cre­ation of a per­ma­nent Ca­lyp­so Mu­se­um to cel­e­brate and pre­serve Trinidad and To­ba­go’s mu­si­cal and cul­tur­al her­itage.

Five new med­ica­tions have been added to the re­vised Chron­ic Dis­ease As­sis­tance Pro­gramme (CDAP) which will pro­vide up­dat­ed treat­ment for more than 300,000 cit­i­zens.

Cuban Am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go, Gus­ta­vo D Veliz Oli­vares, has re­it­er­at­ed his coun­try’s con­dem­na­tion of ter­ror­ism and called for Cu­ba’s re­moval from the Unit­ed States’ list of state spon­sors of ter­ror­ism.

As the Gov­ern­ment pre­pares to present its first na­tion­al bud­get since tak­ing of­fice in April, ad­vo­cates are urg­ing the in­clu­sion of mea­sures to sup­port chil­dren with spe­cial needs, mi­grant chil­dren with­out le­gal sta­tus, and vul­ner­a­ble youth.

The un­solved mur­der of teenage foot­baller Mari­ah Seenath on Sep­tem­ber 20 is a painful re­minder that many un­der­priv­i­leged chil­dren in Trinidad and To­ba­go live un­seen among the priv­i­leged, their strug­gles ig­nored un­til tragedy strikes.

The re­lent­less wave of vi­o­lent crimes in Carlsen Field is threat­en­ing its agri­cul­tur­al lifeblood.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is prais­ing teach­ers as “the torch­bear­ers of na­tion-build­ing,” reaf­firm­ing her Gov­ern­ment’s com­mit­ment to sup­port­ing and em­pow­er­ing ed­u­ca­tors across Trinidad and To­ba­go.