The Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) is rais­ing aware­ness about a surge in scams tar­get­ing prospec­tive home­own­ers, with fraud­sters ex­ploit­ing the names and im­ages of HDC of­fi­cials to de­fraud un­sus­pect­ing cit­i­zens. 

In a move it said was nec­es­sary to en­sure “the safe­ty and well-be­ing of cit­i­zens," the Ch­aguara­mas De­vel­op­ment Au­thor­i­ty (CDA) has closed the pop­u­lar Mac­queripe Beach Fa­cil­i­ty to the pub­lic.

Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Ju­nior Ben­jamin is ad­vis­ing that any­one who presents them­selves as a po­lice of­fi­cer, wear­ing the po­lice tac­ti­cal uni­form may be a crim­i­nal in dis­guise.

An Ex­plo­ration and Pro­duc­tion (Pub­lic Pe­tro­le­um Rights) Li­cence for the Rio Claro Block sit­u­at­ed in the Wards of Charu­ma, Co­cal, Or­toire and Guayagua­yare has been grant­ed to NGC E&P In­vest­ments Lim­it­ed and Primera Oil and Gas Lim­it­ed (a whol­ly owned sub­sidiary of Touch­stone Ex­plo­ration Inc.) by the Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries.

About 77 mil­lion Amer­i­cans have al­ready vot­ed ear­ly in what is said to be one of the most his­tor­i­cal­ly sig­nif­i­cant elec­tions in the U.S.A.

Ja­maica is brac­ing for the pas­sage of Trop­i­cal Storm Rafael (pre­vi­ous­ly Trop­i­cal De­pres­sion #18), shut­ting down gov­ern­ment busi­ness­es this af­ter­noon in an­tic­i­pa­tion of trop­i­cal storm con­di­tions that are ex­pect­ed to be­gin af­fect­ing the coun­try this evening.

A Miss­ing Per­sons Alert has been ac­ti­vat­ed for 16-year-old RE­HAN­NA MORAL­DO of Fyz­abad, who was last seen on No­vem­ber 3, 2024.

Of­fi­cers of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion seized 22.7 kilo­grams of cannabis dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in Cou­va on Sun­day.

The To­ba­go Tourism Agency Lim­it­ed (TTAL) is part­ner­ing with Con­dor for the 2024/2025 win­ter sea­son. Ac­cord­ing to a me­dia state­ment, Con­dor will op­er­ate flights be­tween Ger­many and To­ba­go from No­vem­ber 5, 2024, to April 21, 2025. The air­line will run week­ly flights on Tues­days from Frank­furt Air­port to ANR In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in To­ba­go, with a stop in Bar­ba­dos.

The new­ly formed An­ti-Ex­tor­tion Unit is to­day tak­ing a Ch­agua­nas man be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court, to an­swer to 22 charges, in­clud­ing nine counts of De­mand­ing Mon­ey by Men­ace, to­talling $153,000. 

The re­cur­rent storms in east­ern Spain that led to mas­sive flood­ing last week and killed at least 217 peo­ple, most­ly near Va­len­cia, dumped rain on Barcelona on Mon­day, prompt­ing au­thor­i­ties to sus­pend com­muter rail ser­vice.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors have re­cov­ered am­mu­ni­tion be­long­ing to the T&T Reg­i­ment at the scene where a 26-year-old man was fa­tal­ly shot.