On Sun­day af­ter­noon, when Tim­o­thy Thomas, 22, was about to take a rest, his grand­moth­er asked him to dri­ve to the fam­i­ly’s busi­ness, and he agreed.

PANA­MA CITY – Ja­maica’s For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter Kam­i­na John­son Smith has moved to soft­en re­gion­al ten­sions af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar de­scribed Cari­com as an “un­re­li­able part­ner,” stress­ing that di­a­logue be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and its re­gion­al neigh­bours re­mains in­tact de­spite re­cent strains.

Thou­sands poured in­to the cap­i­tal on Wednes­day for the fi­nal leg of the pre­lim­i­nary “pan crawl,” as steel­pan rhythms rolled through Port-of-Spain, once again af­firm­ing its place as the na­tion’s na­tion­al in­stru­ment.

Af­ter more than a decade of bail­ing out chlo­ri­nat­ed wa­ter from a hole dug in­to the low­er floor of her home, a Debe moth­er is hop­ing that Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath will in­ter­vene and or­der a fresh in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to what she be­lieves is leak­ing WASA wa­ter un­der­min­ing her prop­er­ty.

A moth­er of four, in­clud­ing a new­born ba­by, has been sen­tenced to al­most eight years in prison af­ter be­ing con­vict­ed of car­jack­ing.

Po­lice are search­ing for a La Hor­quet­ta man who re­port­ed­ly shot at them while they were on pa­trol in the area.

A 51-year-old Arou­ca man was killed on Wednes­day morn­ing af­ter a truck lost con­trol and slammed in­to a ve­hi­cle he was dri­ving.

A man who claimed he robbed a woman be­cause he need­ed mon­ey for pub­lic trans­port has been jailed for 15 months.

A Rio Claro man ac­cused of as­sault­ing his moth­er-in-law, al­leged­ly caus­ing her to be­come par­tial­ly blind, has been freed af­ter the pros­e­cu­tion failed to com­ply with the court’s di­rec­tions.

A 71-year-old re­tiree and his 68-year-old wife were robbed at gun­point at their Wind­sor Park, Cal­i­for­nia, home on Tues­day morn­ing.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a vi­o­lent rob­bery at the home of a cus­toms of­fi­cer who was beat­en and robbed of US$10,000 dur­ing the ear­ly hours of Wednes­day morn­ing.

The Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NATUC) has ex­pressed deep con­cern over the de­ci­sion by Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro not to sus­pend of­fi­cers in­volved in the fa­tal shoot­ing of 31-year-old Joshua Sama­roo dur­ing a high-speed chase in St Au­gus­tine on Jan­u­ary 20. The in­ci­dent al­so left Sama­roo’s com­mon-law wife, Ka­ia Sealy, paral­ysed.