A dri­ve-by shoot­ing along Ari­api­ta Av­enue in Wood­brook on Sun­day night has claimed the life of one man.

The Gov­ern­ment has grant­ed ap­proval for Unit­ed States mil­i­tary air­craft to tran­sit through the coun­try’s air­ports in the com­ing weeks.

Aus­tralian fed­er­al and state gov­ern­ment lead­ers on Mon­day agreed to im­me­di­ate­ly over­haul al­ready-tough na­tion­al gun con­trol laws af­ter a mass shoot­ing tar­get­ed a Hanukkah cel­e­bra­tion on Syd­ney’s Bon­di Beach, leav­ing at least 15 peo­ple dead.

A shoot­ing Sat­ur­day at Brown Uni­ver­si­ty in Prov­i­dence, Rhode Is­land, left two peo­ple dead and at least eight oth­er crit­i­cal­ly in­jured. Au­thor­i­ties were still search­ing for a sus­pect in the hours af­ter­ward.

The In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF) says The Ba­hamas econ­o­my re­mains re­silient even as it ac­knowl­edged that growth is ex­pect­ed to de­cel­er­ate slight­ly in 2025.

In an evening of glitz and glam­our, the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) host­ed its an­nu­al Christ­mas fundrais­er on Sat­ur­day evening, mark­ing its first since re­turn­ing to Gov­ern­ment. Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar used the oc­ca­sion to cau­tion of­fi­cials about a heav­ier work­load in the year ahead.

Po­lit­i­cal leader of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment, Pen­ne­lope Beck­les, is warn­ing To­bag­o­ni­ans to be wary of elec­tion hand­outs, claim­ing she has been in­formed of mon­ey and toys be­ing dis­trib­uted ahead of the Jan­u­ary 12 To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tions.

As the an­niver­sary of the dead­ly Far­fan Street fire ap­proach­es, the fam­i­ly of the late D’abadie/O’Meara (now Mal­abar/Mau­si­ca) MP Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian is ap­peal­ing to the Gov­ern­ment for full ac­cess to the of­fi­cial in­ves­tiga­tive re­port, in­sist­ing trans­paren­cy is crit­i­cal for ac­count­abil­i­ty and clo­sure.

T&T Na­tion­al Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) is call­ing for ur­gent wage ne­go­ti­a­tions to be­gin, warn­ing that grow­ing frus­tra­tion among health­care work­ers is al­ready dis­rupt­ing ser­vices, with the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Com­plex (EWMC) se­vere­ly short-staffed over the week­end.

While many fam­i­lies are prepar­ing for Christ­mas, a La Ro­maine fam­i­ly is now in mourn­ing af­ter a fiery high­way crash claimed the life of a 50-year-old man on Sun­day.

On Thurs­day, res­i­dents of Bras­so Seco, Paria, in need of med­ical care, were tend­ed to un­der a tent in the road­way, just feet away from where a land­slide caused the road to col­lapse.

A pris­on­er who was on re­mand for the mur­der of a po­lice of­fi­cer was found dead in his cell at the Port-of-Spain Prison on Fred­er­ick Street yes­ter­day.