With­in min­utes, a re­lax­ing af­ter­noon turned in­to chaos af­ter a fire rav­aged two homes in Tabaquite, dis­plac­ing five peo­ple, in­clud­ing a prison of­fi­cer and his teenage son.

The Arch­dio­cese of Port of Spain has ac­knowl­edged a Guardian Me­dia re­port re­gard­ing a law­suit filed by five men against St Do­minic’s Chil­dren’s Home and the State.

A dra­mat­ic res­cue un­fold­ed along the North Coast Road in Mara­cas on Wednes­day af­ter­noon af­ter a tree col­lapsed on­to a mov­ing maxi taxi, push­ing it over an em­bank­ment.

A mid-morn­ing fire at the Aranguez North Sec­ondary School trig­gered a swift re­sponse from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Fire Ser­vice to­day, af­ter smoke was seen com­ing from the in­sti­tu­tion’s IT Lab­o­ra­to­ry.

France has be­stowed the “Knight of the Le­gion of Ho­n­our” the low­est rank in the coun­try’s high­est civil­ian or­der, on Suri­namese med­ical prac­ti­tion­er, Dr. Ruben del Pra­do.

Both the House and Sen­ate act­ed de­ci­sive­ly Tues­day to pass a bill to force the Jus­tice De­part­ment to pub­licly re­lease its files on the con­vict­ed sex of­fend­er Jef­frey Ep­stein, a re­mark­able dis­play of ap­proval for an ef­fort that had strug­gled for months to over­come op­po­si­tion from Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump and Re­pub­li­can lead­er­ship.

A US news crew film­ing down the is­lands (DDI) near Trinidad record­ed two Amer­i­can naval ves­sels mov­ing through the nar­row chan­nel be­tween Trinidad and Venezuela.

A St Au­gus­tine man who was chopped in the face by his girl­friend’s teenage son dur­ing an ar­gu­ment over him spend­ing the night at their house, was said to be in a sta­ble con­di­tion at hos­pi­tal yes­ter­day.

The de­com­pos­ing body of a man was found at the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture, Land, Fish­eries Sur­veys and Map­ping Di­vi­sion Build­ing at Wright­son Road in Port-of-Spain on Mon­day.

Five men who ac­cused the State of fail­ing to pro­tect them against sex­u­al and phys­i­cal abuse at a chil­dren’s home in Bel­mont decades ago have filed a law­suit su­ing the Ro­man Catholic Church and the State.

While the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion is push­ing for the re­in­state­ment of 26 em­ploy­ees whose con­tracts were not re­newed, the chair­man of the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion is de­fend­ing the move, say­ing the work­ers were “sur­plus to re­quire­ments.”

Wood­brook res­i­dents liv­ing near the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um and the Jean Pierre Com­plex are ques­tion­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s de­ci­sion to ban fetes at those sport­ing fa­cil­i­ties.