A Venezue­lan na­tion­al used the name of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der when of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed him in Store Bay, To­ba­go, yes­ter­day.

For­mer CEPEP con­trac­tors are plead­ing with the Gov­ern­ment to pay out­stand­ing monies owed to them af­ter their ter­mi­na­tion.

The Gov­ern­ment is re­ceiv­ing sharp crit­i­cism from Pa­tri­ot­ic Front (PF) leader Mick­ela Pan­day and for­mer Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) MP Rush­ton Paray over the de­ci­sion to ter­mi­nate work­ers at the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) and the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP).

A cy­clist and a young dri­ver died in sep­a­rate crash­es this week­end, leav­ing fam­i­lies and com­mu­ni­ties in mourn­ing.

That was the blunt re­ac­tion of head of the Crim­i­nal Bar As­so­ci­a­tion, Is­rael Khan, SC, to re­ports that Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie may be con­sid­er­ing step­ping down ahead of sched­ule.

To­ba­go po­lice have re­moved 13 il­le­gal firearms worth over half a mil­lion from the streets in the first nine months of 2025.

A 64-year-old pen­sion­er was found mur­dered at his Ba­co­let home yes­ter­day, rais­ing To­ba­go’s 2025 homi­cide count to six.

A 78-year-old man is dead and his three-year-old grand­son in­jured af­ter an ac­ci­dent on a farm­ing prop­er­ty in Tal­paro on Sat­ur­day.

Strong winds swept through Clax­ton Bay on Fri­day night, knock­ing over Ken­ny Koat’s two-bed­room wood­en house.

A 34-year-old man died af­ter a fire de­stroyed his home at Jor­dan Ter­race, D’Abadie, on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

Home­less peo­ple around the coun­try are usu­al­ly the ones who re­ly on kind­ness, gen­eros­i­ty, and as­sis­tance from oth­ers. But over the week­end, the home­less who call the streets of San Fer­nan­do their home, were the ones lend­ing a help­ing hand.

The Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) con­tin­ues to be in the spot­light af­ter pulling spon­sor­ship from three steel bands, a move that has raised eye­brows in the cul­tur­al sec­tor. The com­pa­ny, how­ev­er, re­mains silent not on­ly on its spon­sor­ship de­ci­sions but al­so on how it failed to prop­er­ly ac­quire the Banyan Archives.