As the drums roll and the ef­fi­gy of Ra­van is set ablaze, com­mu­ni­ties come to­geth­er to wit­ness Ram­leela—a cul­tur­al spec­ta­cle and vivid re­minder that good still burns bright.

The Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) will dis­con­tin­ue its two sub­sidiaries, Fa­cil­i­ties Es­tate Man­age­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (FEM­CoL) and As­set Man­age­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (AMC), ef­fec­tive No­vem­ber 1.

Two gov­ern­ment min­is­ters are deny­ing that the re­cent re­as­sign­ment of Cab­i­net re­spon­si­bil­i­ties de­layed or com­pli­cat­ed the an­nounce­ment of the 2026 Na­tion­al Bud­get date.

Caribbean Air­lines Lim­it­ed (CAL) is ex­pect­ed to break its si­lence with­in days as spec­u­la­tion mounts over sweep­ing in­ter­nal changes, in­clud­ing the re­port­ed mu­tu­al sep­a­ra­tion of for­mer Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer Garvin Med­era.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the death of a To­ba­go pen­sion­er who they say sleep­walked and fell from the up­stairs ban­is­ter of his home yes­ter­day morn­ing.

A teenage boy and his broth­er are dead, and a third man is in crit­i­cal con­di­tion at the hos­pi­tal, fol­low­ing a shoot­ing in Mt Hope, yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

“Run, run,” were the fran­tic words of Ik­isha “Free­da” Wild­man to her nine-year-old son be­fore she was stabbed to death in her home on Mon­day night.

A dou­ble mur­der at Moses Av­enue, San Juan, on Mon­day night rocked the area, leav­ing res­i­dents trau­ma­tised and the rel­a­tives of both men reel­ing in shock and grief.

Po­lice Con­sta­ble LeV­on Sylvester nar­row­ly es­caped hav­ing an ar­rest war­rant is­sued for him yes­ter­day af­ter he failed to ap­pear in court on time in his mat­ter with al­leged fraud­ster Vicky Boodram.

Act­ing Pris­ons Com­mis­sion­er Hay­den Forde has ex­pressed sup­port for Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der’s pro­pos­al to de­ploy mem­bers of the De­fence Force out­side prison fa­cil­i­ties across the coun­try.

As bud­get day ap­proach­es, some pen­sion­ers are call­ing for more fi­nan­cial sup­port as ris­ing liv­ing costs force some to choose be­tween food and med­i­cine.

The Buc­coo Reef Man­age­ment Com­mit­tee has launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion af­ter a tour boat sank near No Man’s Land, To­ba­go, over the week­end. The com­mit­tee has al­so con­firmed that the boat op­er­a­tor’s li­cence has been sus­pend­ed and that new pol­i­cy changes are be­ing re­viewed.