The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) will screen its two nom­i­nees for the To­ba­go East and West seats on Sat­ur­day, ahead of the Gov­ern­ment’s Par­lia­men­tary cau­cus on Sun­day and Mon­day.

The man sus­pect­ed of beat­ing a fe­male rel­a­tive with a piece of iron, leav­ing her in a co­ma at hos­pi­tal, has been found dead in Carlsen Field.

The Co­or­di­na­tor of the Fire­works Ac­tion Coali­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (FACTT) is ex­press­ing dis­ap­point­ment over, what he de­scribed as Gov­ern­ment’s re­peat­ed fail­ure to guard against the un­reg­u­lat­ed use of fire­works dur­ing the State of Emer­gency.

The month of No­vem­ber of­ten sig­ni­fies prepa­ra­tion for the year’s end, mo­ments of grat­i­tude, and re­flec­tions on ac­com­plish­ments. For Trinidad and To­ba­go, how­ev­er, it was a time marked by eco­nom­ic chal­lenges, tragedy, and crit­i­cal pol­i­cy changes as sev­er­al events cap­tured the coun­try’s at­ten­tion.

Gov­ern­ment is giv­ing the crim­i­nal el­e­ments and cit­i­zens, who may have il­le­gal guns in their pos­ses­sion, a chance to sur­ren­der them dur­ing the State of Emer­gency (SoE).

Yes­ter­day, High Court Judge Maria Wil­son sen­tenced Kurt Wise­man to 15 years in prison for the manslaugh­ter of his un­cle, Glen Chester, re­solv­ing a case that be­gan with a fam­i­ly dis­pute in Waller­field, Ari­ma, in Sep­tem­ber 2013.

The Unit­ed States has im­posed sanc­tions on two groups linked to Iran­ian and Russ­ian ef­forts to tar­get Amer­i­can vot­ers with dis­in­for­ma­tion ahead of this year’s elec­tion.

Po­lice of­fi­cers of the North-East­ern and West­ern Di­vi­sions on an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es have ar­rest­ed three sus­pects, and seized two firearms, a quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion, and nar­cotics over the past 24 hours.

Rel­a­tives have found the body of the man be­lieved to be re­spon­si­ble for as­sault­ing a woman who re­mains co­matose and in crit­i­cal con­di­tion at hos­pi­tal.

A black­out hit near­ly all of Puer­to Ri­co ear­ly Tues­day as the U.S. ter­ri­to­ry pre­pared to cel­e­brate New Year’s, leav­ing more than 1.3 mil­lion clients in the dark. Of­fi­cials said it could take up to two days to re­store pow­er.

In Dam­as­cus, the streets were buzzing with ex­cite­ment Tues­day as Syr­i­ans wel­comed in a new year that seemed to many to bring a promise of a brighter fu­ture af­ter the un­ex­pect­ed fall of Bashar As­sad’s gov­ern­ment weeks ear­li­er.

In the out­go­ing Chi­nese cal­en­dar Year of the Drag­on, when crime man­age­ment was again the bane of Gov­ern­ment and a boon for the Op­po­si­tion’s bat­tles, it was al­so a year of oth­er drag­on-sized chal­lenges for the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Gov­ern­ment and Op­po­si­tion Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC).