A 22-year-old British na­tion­al is ex­pect­ed to face charges af­ter of­fi­cers of the Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion in­ter­cept­ed near­ly TT$6 mil­lion worth of mar­i­jua­na at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port on Sun­day.

A third sus­pect has been ar­rest­ed in the dis­ap­pear­ance of two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias Plaza in To­ba­go.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says To­bag­o­ni­ans are “damn vex” over the “Nan­cy sto­ries be­ing ped­dled” in the dis­ap­pear­ance of two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias-Plaza.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar must clear the air on what the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress-ap­point­ed Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny Board was hid­ing from Moody’s cred­it rat­ing agency and the Gov­ern­ment al­so has ques­tions to an­swer to the pub­lic on the Land­mark­TT “web” that was wo­ven.

Roberts, who was ap­point­ed to the Siparia Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion based on a rec­om­men­da­tion from the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC), made the an­nounce­ment as he at­tend­ed the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Sports and Fam­i­ly Day at Nel­son Man­dela Park in St Clair yes­ter­day.

Jus­tice Frank Seep­er­sad has called on cit­i­zens to cre­ate Zones of Sup­port and Safe­ty, or ZOSAS, with­in homes and com­mu­ni­ties as part of a na­tion­al re­sponse to crime.

This was the sug­ges­tion of a ju­nior State coun­sel in re­sponse to re­ports that the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (ODPP) has been un­able to as­sign pros­e­cu­tors to four re­cent­ly ap­point­ed judges due to chron­ic and ever in­creas­ing staff short­ages.

As hun­dreds of high-achiev­ing Sec­ondary Ed­u­ca­tion As­sess­ment (SEA) stu­dents looked to­ward fu­tures that may one day take them over­seas, High Court Judge Gillian Lucky de­liv­ered a blunt ap­peal on Sat­ur­day: come back home.

Siparia pen­sion­er Nank­ishore “Bob­by” Sir­ju went to bed un­der the stars on Sat­ur­day night, but there was lit­tle peace in it.

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment has been weak on eco­nom­ic per­for­mance and pro­vi­sion of safe­ty, and it ur­gent­ly needs to con­front key eco­nom­ic is­sues se­ri­ous­ly in Par­lia­ment’s up­com­ing Sec­ond Ses­sion, says for­mer UNC min­is­ter Vas­ant Bharath.

Amer­i­can rap­per Jef­frey “Ja Rule” Atkins briefly stirred and flirt­ed with con­tro­ver­sy dur­ing Sat­ur­day night’s R&B Brunch con­cert at the Queen’s Park Oval, Port-of-Spain, af­ter us­ing sev­er­al ex­ple­tives on­stage.

Less than two months be­fore the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) grant­ed a Cer­tifi­cate of En­vi­ron­men­tal Clear­ance (CEC) to Su­pe­ri­or Ho­tels Ltd for a ma­jor project at Rocky Point, To­ba­go, two ex­perts con­sult­ed by the EMA deemed the 200-room ho­tel and re­sort “fun­da­men­tal­ly in­com­pat­i­ble” with the site.