Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad Bisses­sar is en­cour­ag­ing law-abid­ing cit­i­zens to ap­ply for their firearm users’ li­cences (FULs). She says her Gov­ern­ment has al­so al­ready be­gun to work on “Stand Your Ground” and an­ti-home in­va­sion laws.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she doesn’t have the pre­rog­a­tive to re­vert to pre­vi­ous Gov­ern­ment salary struc­tures and over­turn the Salaries Re­view Com­mis­sion’s (SRC) in­creas­es.

The state of the econ­o­my is not a sur­prise to econ­o­mists and oth­er fi­nan­cial ex­perts around the coun­try.

For Can­da­cy Phillip, the wife of de­ceased rig work­er Pe­te Phillip, there will be no cel­e­bra­tion on Moth­er’s Day to­mor­row.

As Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar moves to ex­pand the Chil­dren’s Life Fund, founder of Sup­port Autism TT, Dr Rad­i­ca Ma­hase says chil­dren liv­ing with life-lim­it­ing med­ical con­di­tions can now ac­cess qual­i­ty care.

New Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Sean Sobers has held talks with the Unit­ed King­dom gov­ern­ment about the visa re­stric­tions im­posed on T&T na­tion­als ear­li­er this year.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment To­ba­go Coun­cil has opened nom­i­na­tions for can­di­dates to con­test the up­com­ing To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tions, which are con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly due in De­cem­ber 2025. 

A West­moor­ings woman was stabbed sev­er­al times by a male rel­a­tive dur­ing an ar­gu­ment on Thurs­day.

The new Cab­i­net has been giv­en time to de­cide its po­si­tion on a law­suit brought by for­mer Cen­tral Bank gov­er­nor Jwala Ram­bar­ran seek­ing in­for­ma­tion rel­a­tive to his ter­mi­na­tion by the for­mer gov­ern­ment in 2015.

De­liv­er­ing a de­ci­sion yes­ter­day evening, High Court Judge Joan Charles lift­ed an in­junc­tion al­low­ing the mu­se­um to re­main at its lo­ca­tion along the West­ern Main Road in Ch­aguara­mas, which was ob­tained af­ter the Ch­aguara­mas De­vel­op­ment Au­thor­i­ty (CDA) sought to evict it in late Feb­ru­ary.

A South mas icon will be ho­n­oured to­day, as co-founder of Kalicha­ran Mas, Wendy Kalicha­ran, is laid to rest at the age of 76.

The par­tial­ly burnt body that was dis­cov­ered in some bush­es in Mor­vant af­ter fire of­fi­cers re­spond­ed to a call about a bush fire on Thurs­day re­mained uniden­ti­fied up to yes­ter­day.