A Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) em­ploy­ee was killed yes­ter­day, as he stood un­der a tent along La­dy Young Road, Mor­vant.

David Greeves, a labour­er of Navet Road, San Fer­nan­do, died at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal on Sun­day, while be­ing treat­ed for smoke in­hala­tion and burns.

A po­lice trainee who crashed in­to a stalled mo­torist along the Beetham High­way in the wee hours on Sun­day and end­ed up in­jur­ing the dri­ver was grant­ed bail af­ter fail­ing three con­sec­u­tive breathal­yser tests.

A su­per­vi­sor, cashier, and se­cu­ri­ty guard work­ing at the KFC, Ch­agua­nas branch, were tied up and robbed on Sun­day night by three armed men who lat­er fled with an undis­closed amount of cash.

Some 5,248 pay­ments have been is­sued for the School Sup­plies and Book Grant Pro­gramme for the up­com­ing aca­d­e­m­ic year, and the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion says the re­main­ing pay­ments should be com­ple­tion by Sep­tem­ber 5, 2025.

Fire One Fire­works will close all its out­lets on In­de­pen­dence Day, align­ing with the Gov­ern­ment’s de­c­la­ra­tion of a Na­tion­al Day of Prayer and Re­flec­tion in place of the tra­di­tion­al pa­rade and fire­works dis­play.

For­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al, Garvin Nicholas, says the Trinidad and To­ba­go gov­ern­ment should not read­i­ly aban­don its clos­est al­lies to ap­pease “those who would eas­i­ly dis­card us”, as he ques­tioned Port-of-Spain’s an­nounce­ment that it ful­ly sup­ports the de­ci­sion of the Unit­ed States to de­ploy “mil­i­tary as­sets” in­to the Caribbean re­gion to de­stroy what it de­scribed as “the ter­ror­ist drug car­tels”.

U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s spe­cial en­voy Kei­th Kel­logg said in Kyiv on Mon­day that of­fi­cials are “work­ing very, very hard” on ef­forts to end the three-year war be­tween Rus­sia and Ukraine, as a lack of progress fu­els doubts about whether a peace set­tle­ment could be on the hori­zon.

The Na­tion­al Ram­leela Coun­cil of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NRCTT) is seek­ing $1 mil­lion to stage this year’s cel­e­bra­tions.

The Dwayne Bra­vo Foun­da­tion is team­ing up with crick­et icons Kieron Pol­lard and Nicholas Pooran to host its first char­i­ty golf tour­na­ment.

To­ba­go has record­ed its fifth mur­der for the year, af­ter 26-year-old shop own­er Ky­lon Mal­colm was shot dead at his busi­ness place on Pem­broke Bay Road, Pem­broke, on Sun­day night.

Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Bar­ry Padarath has an­nounced plans to re­in­state cul­tur­al and re­li­gious events across state en­ter­pris­es.