A San­ta Cruz res­i­dent won the NL­CB Lot­to Plus $5m Jack­pot af­ter years of play­ing twice a week, he said. 

The Unit­ed Na­tions Pop­u­la­tion Fund (UNF­PA) says it has re­ceived on­ly 19 per cent of the re­quest­ed US$28 mil­lion in in­ter­na­tion­al aid to deal with the gen­der-based vi­o­lence in Haiti.

Work­ers who clean air­planes, re­move trash and help with wheel­chairs at Char­lotte’s air­port, one of the na­tion’s busiest, went on strike Mon­day dur­ing a busy week of Thanks­giv­ing trav­el to de­mand high­er wages.

NGC Green marked World Chil­dren’s Day 2024 by do­nat­ing 350 reusable san­i­tary nap­kins to chil­dren’s homes and care or­ga­ni­za­tions across T&T.

The M.V. Cabo Star could be back in ser­vice to­mor­row, Tues­day 26 No­vem­ber 2024, by which time on­go­ing main­te­nance works should be com­plete, an ad­vi­so­ry from the Trinidad and To­ba­go In­ter-Is­land Trans­porta­tion Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (TTIT) says.

The Min­istry of Health is re­port­ing that there are 2,004 lab­o­ra­to­ry-con­firmed cas­es of dengue fever and 19 lab­o­ra­to­ry-con­firmed deaths.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) says wa­ter dis­tri­b­u­tion has im­proved at the ex­treme end of the south­west­ern net­work.

The Is­raeli am­bas­sador to Wash­ing­ton says that a cease­fire deal to end fight­ing be­tween Is­rael and the Lebanon-based Hezbol­lah could be reached “with­in days.”

The Unit­ed Na­tions Chil­dren’s Fund (UNICEF) says the num­ber of chil­dren be­ing re­cruit­ed in­to armed groups across Haiti has in­creased by 70 per cent over the past year.

En­veloped in dark­ness, sit­ting in soli­tude, with an out­stretched palm to­wards a so­ci­ety that he says treats him with in­dif­fer­ence bor­der­ing con­tempt, Matthew Ro­driguez’s sto­ry is har­row­ing. Can­cer took not on­ly his eye­sight but his eyes as well. Glau­co­ma robbed his wife of her vi­sion, while their sev­en-year-old daugh­ter now lives with on­ly one eye. Like her fa­ther, can­cer al­so touched her life.

The Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC) has com­mit­ted to en­sur­ing ac­count­abil­i­ty with­in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) un­der its new lead­er­ship. PolSC Chair­man Dr Wen­dell Wal­lace stat­ed that one of his key pri­or­i­ties will be work­ing close­ly with Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher to ad­dress the TTPS’s da­ta de­fi­cien­cies and the grow­ing ero­sion of pub­lic trust. On Fri­day, Dr Wal­lace told Guardian Me­dia, “One of the things that, as the chair­man, I in­tend to do is work with the team to en­sure that the po­lice ser­vice is ful­ly func­tion­ing. One of the things that I in­tend to do is work with the com­mis­sion­er to en­sure that you have a trick­le-down ef­fect. For ex­am­ple, I would like to see greater ac­count­abil­i­ty.”

De­spite heavy rains, scores of peo­ple turned out to the launch of Car­ni­val 2025 on Sat­ur­day evening, ea­ger to join in the cel­e­bra­tion.