T&T wel­comed its sec­ond cruise ship vis­it for the sea­son yes­ter­day when the En­chant­ed Princess docked with ap­prox­i­mate­ly 3,660 pas­sen­gers, main­ly from North Amer­i­ca on its in­au­gur­al vis­it to this coun­try.

The life­less body of 71-year-old pen­sion­er Charles Watts was pulled from a drain along Park Street, Mara­bel­la af­ter mid­day on Sat­ur­day. Watts, a res­i­dent of Gopaul Lands, Mara­bel­la, was known for his dai­ly runs along Park Street, rel­a­tives said. Un­der­tak­ers have re­moved his body from the scene but po­lice say they are in­ves­ti­gat­ing. Guardian Me­dia will up­date this sto­ry as more in­for­ma­tion comes to hand.

Six months af­ter Fyz­abad pen­sion­er Hen­ry Mun­gal was stabbed to death and his body set afire at his home, a teenag­er and two oth­ers ap­peared in court charged with his mur­der.

One man was ar­rest­ed and quan­ti­ties of mar­i­jua­na seized, dur­ing sep­a­rate an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es in the West­ern and North­ern Di­vi­sions yes­ter­day.

A school teacher has been charged with sev­en counts of cru­el­ty to chil­dren fol­low­ing al­le­ga­tions of abuse, in­clud­ing lock­ing her two young chil­dren in a dog ken­nel as pun­ish­ment.

The In­ter-Amer­i­can Bank (IDB) on Fri­day said the Unit­ed King­dom (UK) has reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to ad­vanc­ing sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment in Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean by an­nounc­ing that it will pro­vide a ro­bust sup­port pack­age to the IDB.

South Ko­rea’s par­lia­ment on Sat­ur­day im­peached Pres­i­dent Yoon Suk Yeol over his stun­ning and short-lived mar­tial law de­cree, a move that end­ed days of po­lit­i­cal paral­y­sis but set up an in­tense de­bate over Yoon’s fate, as ju­bi­lant crowds roared to cel­e­brate an­oth­er de­fi­ant mo­ment in the coun­try’s re­silient democ­ra­cy.

With less than two weeks un­til Christ­mas Day, busi­ness­es are com­plain­ing of slow sales, in part be­cause their stock is still caught up on the Port of Port-of-Spain, which is still work­ing to clear a back­log of con­tain­ers in the wake of re­cent protest ac­tion by work­ers.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley says the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) will pro­tect the coun­try from the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress-led coali­tion Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is try­ing to form with small­er po­lit­i­cal par­ties and trade unions.

Kaveer Bhag­wan­deen de­fied so­ci­ety’s stereo­types about chil­dren grow­ing up in bro­ken homes, earn­ing an Open Schol­ar­ship in En­vi­ron­men­tal Sci­ence.

To­ba­go busi­ness own­ers hop­ing that Christ­mas sales will pick up next week once work­ers are paid.

To­ba­go po­lit­i­cal par­ties say the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) can count them out of its new po­lit­i­cal coali­tion.