For­mer Whim An­gli­can Pri­ma­ry School stu­dent Faith Gra­ham may have been born vi­su­al­ly im­paired but she has re­fused to let that de­fine her.

The Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty says more pass­ports are on the way and in­sists there is enough stock to meet cur­rent de­mand, but the min­istry has not dis­closed how many pass­port book­lets re­main avail­able, even as con­cerns from peo­ple fa­mil­iar with the sit­u­a­tion about the coun­try’s sup­ply run­ning low con­tin­ue to per­sist.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is call­ing on Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der to dis­close ex­act­ly how many pass­port book­lets re­main in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s in­ven­to­ry, say­ing the pub­lic still needs a clear pic­ture of the coun­try’s cur­rent sup­ply de­spite as­sur­ances from the min­istry that more pass­ports are on the way.

Re­ports of a raid at the Bel­mont Po­lice Sta­tion on Mon­day, where sev­er­al firearms and a quan­ti­ty of nar­cotics were re­port­ed­ly dis­cov­ered, have been de­nied as fake news by se­nior of­fi­cials with­in the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

Al­most three weeks af­ter two men were killed dur­ing cel­e­bra­tions in Siparia, no one has been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with their mur­ders.

The body of an uniden­ti­fied man, rid­dled with gun­shot wounds, was dis­cov­ered on a road­way in Pe­tit Morne, Phase Two, Ste Madeleine, ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.

The five Sil­ver Stars Steel Or­ches­tra play­ers who were ar­rest­ed on Sun­day fol­low­ing a scuf­fle with po­lice of­fi­cers dur­ing the TRIBE band launch, have been charged for vary­ing of­fences.

Po­lice have con­firmed Sher­man Irvine, 35, of Black Rock, To­ba­go, has been charged with a se­ries of of­fences re­lat­ed to an elab­o­rate rob­bery that left five ban­dits emp­ty-hand­ed. Irvine ap­peared in court on Fri­day and was de­nied bail.

Busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve have launched an­oth­er bid to se­cure their re­lease from de­ten­tion over an al­leged plot to kill key Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials. 

Three months af­ter a fa­tal jet ski ac­ci­dent killed sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie in To­ba­go, no charges have been laid.

De­spite state-owned Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) drop­ping Blue Wa­ters from its flights, some of the coun­try’s biggest re­tail­ers say it is busi­ness as usu­al, re­port­ing no de­cline in cus­tomer de­mand and no plans to stop sell­ing the lo­cal bot­tled wa­ter brand fol­low­ing the de­ten­tion of its own­ers.

For years, when­ev­er Caribbean Air­lines pi­lot Tri­cia Ali was in the cock­pit thou­sands of feet above the Caribbean, two grand­moth­ers qui­et­ly took over on the ground.