The To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion (TH­TA) is re­as­sur­ing all vis­i­tors, mem­bers and part­ners of To­ba­go, that the is­land "is still a safe and wel­com­ing des­ti­na­tion."

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the death of 76-year-old pen­sion­er William Cardiff, whose body was found ly­ing near a drain in Fyz­abad on Thurs­day night.

Pros­e­cu­tors from the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) were ab­sent from court yes­ter­day and will al­so be miss­ing to­day, as they are said to be so trau­ma­tised by the bru­tal mur­der of for­mer col­league, spe­cial pros­e­cu­tor Ran­dall Hec­tor, that they are fear­ful for their own lives and un­able to fo­cus on work.

Hun­dreds of mourn­ers lined the streets of Ari­ma for the fu­ner­al of Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion, Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian, and two of her chil­dren—25-year-old Xi­anne Ju­lian and six-year-old Je­si­ah Ju­lian—yes­ter­day, brav­ing heavy rain­fall and a yel­low-lev­el weath­er alert.

Lar­ry Lal­la, SC, is ques­tion­ing why the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) did not have the in­tel­li­gence to warn that at­tor­ney Ran­dall Hec­tor’s life was in dan­ger.

Af­ter nu­mer­ous calls for a ban on fire­works that can cause dis­tress to an­i­mals, ac­tivists at the T&T So­ci­ety for the Pre­ven­tion of Cru­el­ty to An­i­mals (TTSP­CA) have lost one of their dogs, which they be­lieve was due to the loud ex­plo­sions on Old Year’s Day.

As road fa­tal­i­ties surged in 2024, Ar­rive Alive Pres­i­dent Sharon In­gle­field is urg­ing the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port (MOWT) to form a com­mit­tee to im­ple­ment crit­i­cal road safe­ty mea­sures, par­tic­u­lar­ly to pro­tect pedes­tri­ans.

With the search for her hus­band Pe­te Phillip tem­porar­i­ly halt­ed, preg­nant wife, Can­da­cy Phillip con­tin­ues to face the new year with hope.

A po­lice ex­er­cise in East Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day re­sult­ed in the ar­rest of two men be­liv­eved to be shoot­ers. Po­lice said the men were held at St Paul Street dur­ing an ex­er­cise con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers of the Port of SpainTask Force, the In­ter-Agency Task Force and Besson Street CID.

The re­cent State of Emer­gency (SoE) de­c­la­ra­tion has caused some can­cel­la­tions in To­ba­go’s ho­tel sec­tor, ac­cord­ing to Kaye Trot­man, pres­i­dent of the To­ba­go Unique Bed, Break­fast, and Self-Cater­ing As­so­ci­a­tion.

A 20-year-old Vista­bel­la wait­ress is fight­ing for her life at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal af­ter be­ing stabbed in the ab­domen short­ly af­ter re­turn­ing home with her nine-month-old son on New Year’s Day.

Around 6.15 pm, Christo­pher Kevin Charles, 36, of Man­a­ham­bre Road, Ste Madeleine, was at Co­quette Street when a gold Nis­san Almera trav­el­ling west along Man­a­ham­bre Road turned on­to Co­quette Street.