The woman who was shot in the head as she ex­it­ed a car in Long­denville yes­ter­day has been iden­ti­fied as 38-year-old Avanelle Abra­ham.

A 19-year-old Pe­nal woman awoke to a scene of hor­ror when she dis­cov­ered that her par­ents had been mur­dered dur­ing a home in­va­sion.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands the fire broke out in Room 695 on the sixth floor, which was un­oc­cu­pied at the time.

A week of mil­i­tary ex­er­cis­es fea­tur­ing sol­diers of the TT Reg­i­ment and the US Ma­rine Corps’ 22nd Ma­rine Ex­pe­di­tionary Unit (MEU) be­gan yes­ter­day, but with no vis­i­ble ac­tiv­i­ty at Teteron Bar­racks, Ch­aguara­mas.

The Unit­ed States De­part­ment of State says it will des­ig­nate Car­tel de los Soles as a For­eign Ter­ror­ist Or­gan­i­sa­tion, with the des­ig­na­tion tak­ing ef­fect on 24 No­vem­ber.

Three Erin fish­er­men, in­clud­ing Daniel Abra­ham, who were re­port­ed­ly kid­napped in Venezuela late Thurs­day, have been re­leased, but four oth­er men have now been al­leged­ly ab­duct­ed and their cap­tors are de­mand­ing a US$20,000 ran­som for their safe re­turn.

T&T will now en­joy ze­ro tar­iffs on crit­i­cal agri­cul­tur­al ex­ports to the Unit­ed States fol­low­ing a de­ci­sion by US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump to mod­i­fy the scope of rec­i­p­ro­cal tar­iffs un­der the Amer­i­can tar­iff regime.

Lead­ing Caribbean-born schol­ar in in­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions and glob­al gov­er­nance, Pro­fes­sor Andy Knight, has cau­tioned that while T&T stands to ben­e­fit from joint train­ing ex­er­cis­es with the Unit­ed States Ma­rine Corps, the na­tion must care­ful­ly weigh the strate­gic costs as they re­late to its sov­er­eign­ty.

Chief Jus­tice Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh has promised that the “icon­ic Supreme Court build­ing in San Fer­nan­do” will be re­opened dur­ing his tenure.

Hous­ing Min­is­ter Dr David Lee says that for too long, hous­ing de­liv­ery in T&T has fall­en far short of na­tion­al needs, as more than 100,000 ap­pli­cants re­main on the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) data­base, yet on­ly 4,000 homes were built in the past decade. He says it is a gap that could on­ly be de­scribed as a fail­ure of de­liv­ery.

A Ch­agua­nas man caught lit­ter­ing has apol­o­gised to fel­low burgess­es and the peo­ple of T&T, vow­ing nev­er again to dump rub­bish il­le­gal­ly along the road­side.

When Debe High School first opened its doors 25 years ago in the rolling cane­fields of Debe, along the new­ly paved M2 Ring Road built un­der for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Bas­deo Pan­day, it marked the be­gin­ning of a qui­et but pow­er­ful ed­u­ca­tion­al rev­o­lu­tion.