Two weeks af­ter an at­tempt on the life of a San Fer­nan­do busi­ness­man’s daugh­ter, a 21-year-old em­ploy­ee of a car deal­er­ship linked to R&J Cell Tech was shot and killed ear­li­er to­day. The vic­tim, Sal­im Ab­dool, sus­tained a gun­shot wound to the chest and was un­der­go­ing emer­gency surgery but lat­er died.

A fa­ther of three was fa­tal­ly stabbed by a fe­male rel­a­tive dur­ing a heat­ed ar­gu­ment at his Clax­ton Bay home ear­ly this morn­ing.

Trin­bag­on­ian mu­si­cal am­bas­sadors, Preedy, Su­cre, Turn­er, Melick, Ravi B, Joshua Re­grel­lo, KMC, La­dy La­va and oth­ers are all set to grace the stage at the One Caribbean Uni­ty Mu­sic Fes­ti­val this com­ing week­end and all ex­cit­ed to be a part of the cast of this his­toric event.

Po­lice have charged Mar­vin Rugette, 52, of Beetham Gar­dens with mur­der fol­low­ing le­gal ad­vice from Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions Roger Gas­pard.

Suri­name's In­de­pen­dent Elec­toral Of­fice (OKB) has ac­knowl­edged short­com­ings in at least one polling sta­tion, but dis­missed sug­ges­tions of ma­nip­u­la­tion or fraud, as vot­ers in the Dutch-speak­ing Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) coun­try still await the fi­nal re­sults of the elec­tions held on Sun­day.

The Unit­ed States-sanc­tioned bil­lion­aire busi­ness­man, Azrud­din Mo­hamed, says he will con­test the pres­i­den­tial elec­tions in Guyana sched­uled for Sep­tem­ber 1 this year.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) has of­fi­cial­ly opened nom­i­na­tions for its 2025 Na­tion­al In­ter­nal Elec­tions.

Three men had to be treat­ed at hos­pi­tal on Mon­day night af­ter they were in­jured dur­ing a shoot­ing in Diego Mar­tin.

Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der is call­ing on po­lice of­fi­cers to re­main com­mit­ted to serv­ing the na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty, as he urged the lead­er­ship of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) to act against those who may be pre­tend­ing to be ill to avoid du­ty.

Op­po­si­tion Sen­ate Leader Dr Amery Browne has con­demned the re­cent oc­cur­rence of a cut­lass-wield­ing man turn­ing up at Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo's Fyz­abad home. How­ev­er, Browne's al­so ex­pressed con­cern about the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress Gov­ern­ment's pub­li­ca­tion of the iden­ti­ties of peo­ple who had Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route (PBR) pass­es which has now put their se­cu­ri­ty at risk.

Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Cu­mu­to/Man­zanil­la and Par­lia­men­tary Sec­re­tary in the Min­istry of Pub­lic Util­i­ties, Shiv­an­na Sam, has as­sured her con­stituents she will work to ease the bur­dens faced by rur­al com­mu­ni­ties.

Chair­man of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM), Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley has wel­comed the launch of the Caribbean Re­gion­al Lo­gis­tics Hub and Cen­tre of Ex­cel­lence say­ing it will sig­nif­i­cant­ly strength­en the re­gion’s abil­i­ty to re­spond quick­ly to dis­as­ters and hu­man­i­tar­i­an crises.