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.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the death of Matthew Th­er­oulde, 59, who died on Tues­day af­ter a ve­hi­cle fell on him dur­ing re­pairs.

The Down­town Mer­chants and Own­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (DO­MA) says T&T is in a “ma­jor tail­spin” and has called on Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ters, Op­po­si­tion MPs and oth­er of­fi­cials to bring the coun­try back to some lev­el of safe­ty and peace.

The Law As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (LATT) has ex­pressed hope that the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) will be a suc­cess.

A so­cial me­dia ac­tivist has threat­ened to sue over reg­u­la­tions re­lat­ed to the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE).

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and sev­er­al oth­er Op­po­si­tion Par­lia­men­tar­i­ans were in­vit­ed to at­tend yes­ter­day's fu­ner­al ser­vice at San­ta Rosa RC Church for late Min­is­ter Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian and two of her chil­dren, ac­cord­ing to For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Dr Amery Browne.