Friends and fam­i­ly gath­ered yes­ter­day at the Ch­agua­nas home of Shan­ice Mor­ris to bid a tear­ful farewell to the 32-year-old moth­er whose life was cut short in a vi­o­lent Ed­in­burgh 500 shoot­ing.

In the sto­ry of mod­ern Trinidad and To­ba­go, few mo­ments car­ry as much po­lit­i­cal and psy­cho­log­i­cal weight as the Black Pow­er Rev­o­lu­tion of 1970.

The Min­istry of Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices has is­sued an ur­gent ad­vi­so­ry fol­low­ing re­ports of coun­ter­feit so­cial wel­fare cheques cir­cu­lat­ing.

A High Court Judge has re­solved an in­her­i­tance dis­pute re­lat­ed to a will pre­pared by Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les.

The Of­fice of the Pres­i­dent has re­ject­ed what it de­scribes as im­prop­er in­sin­u­a­tions cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia re­gard­ing an al­leged fi­nan­cial arrange­ment, in­sist­ing that Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo acts strict­ly with­in the con­sti­tu­tion­al frame­work of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Two men, in­clud­ing a for­mer na­tion­al Un­der-17 foot­baller and a mu­sic artiste, are dead and a third hos­pi­talised fol­low­ing a sin­gle-ve­hi­cle crash along the South­ern Main Road, St Mar­garet’s, in the ear­ly hours of Sat­ur­day.

Three men, in­clud­ing mu­nic­i­pal po­lice of­fi­cer Ji­van Coop­er, have been charged with the mur­der of act­ing Cpl Anus­ka Ever­s­ley at the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion on Sun­day.

The Con­sol­i­dat­ed As­so­ci­a­tion of Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice (CAMP) is ac­cus­ing State au­thor­i­ties of aban­don­ing mu­nic­i­pal of­fi­cers in the af­ter­math of the mur­der of WPC Anus­ka Ever­s­ley, even as fu­ner­al arrange­ments for the slain of­fi­cer have been con­firmed.

New­ly ap­point­ed act­ing T&T Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Ser­vice (TTMPS) head, As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (ACP) Wayne Mys­tar, yes­ter­day met with griev­ing rel­a­tives of slain po­lice of­fi­cer Anus­ka Ever­s­ley in an emo­tion­al­ly charged ex­change which left sev­er­al peo­ple in tears.

A 23-year-old man has ap­peared be­fore the High Court charged with the mur­der of 44-year-old Tri­cia Mara­jh.

For one week, a dig­i­tal cam­paign promised a new era of ef­fi­cien­cy at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port—a seam­less merg­er of do­mes­tic and in­ter­na­tion­al de­par­tures aimed at bring­ing in­ter-is­land trav­el in line with glob­al avi­a­tion stan­dards.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has con­firmed that a pro­pos­al to in­tro­duce two dai­ly un­sub­sidised Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) flights on the do­mes­tic air­bridge is un­der re­view by the Min­istry of Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism, but has not yet reached Cab­i­net.