Rel­a­tives are hop­ing that the dri­ver who was re­spon­si­ble for an ac­ci­dent that claimed the life of a mo­tor­cy­clist and in­jured an­oth­er on Sun­day night will come for­ward or some­one will give the po­lice his iden­ti­ty.

The race to the White House in the Unit­ed States is un­der­way to­day, with for­mer US pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump bat­tling cur­rent US Vice Pres­i­dent Ka­mala Har­ris for the job of US com­man­der-in-chief.

To­day is De­ci­sion Day for the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca and the world. As of 7 am and con­tin­u­ing un­til 7 o’clock tonight, Amer­i­cans will de­cide on who will be their 47th US Pres­i­dent and the fate of the globe.

Af­ter a lit­tle over two months in­to the new school term, par­ents of some stu­dents at­tend­ing spe­cial needs schools are wor­ried that soon they will not have a place to send their chil­dren.

There is no hy­dro­car­bon leak at the Stud­ley Park dump. To­ba­go Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency (TEMA) di­rec­tor Al­lan Stew­art and Deputy Chief Sec­re­tary Dr Faith B Yis­rael con­firmed this yes­ter­day, deny­ing me­dia re­ports of an en­vi­ron­men­tal haz­ard caused by al­leged im­prop­er dis­pos­al of the waste col­lect­ed dur­ing the Feb­ru­ary 7 oil spill.

Five weeks af­ter Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert pre­sent­ed the fis­cal pack­age for 2024/2025, the na­tion’s youth are still talk­ing about the state of the coun­try’s econ­o­my.

A cou­ple from St He­le­na has dis­con­tin­ued a law­suit against the Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty of T&T over con­trol of a par­cel of land bound­ing the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

A 23-year-old man has been grant­ed $90,000 bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court charged with al­leged­ly forg­ing ve­hi­cle tint ex­emp­tion doc­u­ments.

WPC Quian­na Ma­habir re­mains hos­pi­talised as her health con­tin­ues to im­prove dai­ly. Se­nior of­fi­cials of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice yes­ter­day said Ma­habir's progress has been slow yet steady. They en­cour­aged her to keep up the fight to live. Ma­habir, 30, was shot mul­ti­ple times dur­ing a sus­pect­ed car­jack­ing out­side her home at Hy­draulic Road, Kel­ly Vil­lage, Ca­roni, around 1.35 am on Oc­to­ber 22. Po­lice said Ma­habir, who is as­signed to the TTPS Band as a drum­mer, was shot sev­er­al times dur­ing the in­ci­dent. Guardian Me­dia was told by se­nior of­fi­cers that while Ma­habir was no longer un­der the care of of­fi­cials of the In­ten­sive Care Unit (ICU), Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC), Mt Hope, she had re­mained on the ward as she con­tin­ued to re­ceive spe­cial­ist at­ten­tion. De­scrib­ing Ma­habir’s progress as re­mark­able, a se­nior of­fi­cer said it was a pos­i­tive sign as “she was start­ing to re­mem­ber more things.” He ad­mit­ted, how­ev­er, that “she doesn’t re­mem­ber the in­ci­dent, but had start­ed to recog­nise peo­ple.” Ma­habir re­port­ed­ly suf­fered in­juries to her left eye, while her full mem­o­ry was said to be “fog­gy” as well. Asked about the lev­el of sup­port the TTPS was pro­vid­ing to her and her fam­i­ly at this time, the of­fi­cial said, “The sup­port for them has been over­whelm­ing. The fam­i­ly has ac­cess to trans­port to go any­where. All the so­cial ser­vices are at their dis­pos­al, as all arms of the TTPS are giv­ing that sup­port to them at this time.” Re­gard­ing the in­ves­ti­ga­tion, a se­nior of­fi­cial in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion said while no ar­rests have as yet been laid, sev­er­al sus­pects had been ques­tioned in re­la­tion to the in­ci­dent. The of­fi­cer as­sured, “Ar­rests are im­mi­nent.” Ma­habir had been part of an all-fe­male con­tin­gent rep­re­sent­ing the TTPS Band that re­turned to the coun­try on Oc­to­ber 22, fol­low­ing a 12-day mu­sic tour of the Ba­hamas and New Jer­sey.  - An­na-Lisa Paul

The Privy Coun­cil has re­served its judg­ment on an ap­peal from a trade union over a de­ci­sion to de­ny a for­mer bank work­er ac­cess to the In­dus­tri­al Court be­cause it (the trade union) did not have a bank ac­count.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the dis­cov­ery of hu­man bones be­hind the carpark of the Flower Pot Beach in Pointe-a-Pierre on Sun­day.

Po­lice are await­ing the re­sults of an au­top­sy be­fore rul­ing out foul play in the death of 43-year-old Pe­nal res­i­dent Suni­ta Khan.