A qui­et Rio Claro com­mu­ni­ty was left in shock af­ter a res­i­dent was shot dead in broad day­light yes­ter­day.

Va­len­cia Po­lice are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to a chop­ping in­ci­dent that oc­curred at a pig farm on Sat­ur­day.

Mem­bers of the pub­lic were left dis­ap­point­ed yes­ter­day as dri­ving per­mit ser­vices at the Princes Town Li­cens­ing Of­fice were sus­pend­ed due to sew­er is­sues af­fect­ing the fa­cil­i­ty.

A sol­dier has chal­lenged a de­ci­sion of a High Court judge to re­ject his law­suit claim­ing that he was un­fair­ly by­passed for pro­mo­tion.

The Fa­thers’ As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T is call­ing for ur­gent leg­isla­tive re­form af­ter da­ta col­lect­ed be­tween 2020 and 2025 re­port­ed­ly re­vealed that one in every three men test­ed was not the bi­o­log­i­cal fa­ther of the child they be­lieved to be theirs.

As a back­hoe, crew, and clean­ing equip­ment rolled in­to the Mara­bel­la Mar­ket yes­ter­day morn­ing to tack­le a se­ries of long­stand­ing prob­lems, San Fer­nan­do May­or Robert Par­ris said he was hope­ful that the im­prove­ments would en­cour­age res­i­dents to re­turn to tra­di­tion­al shop­ping for fresh pro­duce.

Af­ter eight decades in busi­ness, Stan­dard Dis­trib­u­tors Lim­it­ed is be­ing sold by ANSA McAL Lim­it­ed to Term Fi­nance (Trinidad & To­ba­go) Lim­it­ed.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar will make her first of­fi­cial vis­it to To­ba­go from No­vem­ber 3, fol­low­ing an in­vi­ta­tion from Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine.

The Gov­ern­ment would not have left the pub­lic in the dark if there were a se­ri­ous se­cu­ri­ty threat to the coun­try and will not do so in fu­ture.

While De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge says last Fri­day’s T&T De­fence Force “pre­pared­ness” drill could not have been di­vulged to the pub­lic, Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment Sen­a­tor Amery Browne has slammed the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress Gov­ern­ment’s dis­re­gard for the con­cerns and anx­i­eties of the pub­lic, which pan­icked af­ter the sit­u­a­tion de­vel­oped over the course of a few hours.

The T&T De­fence Force (TTDF) con­tin­ues to en­gage in se­ries of tac­ti­cal readi­ness ex­er­cis­es as part of prepa­ra­tions for any po­ten­tial re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty threats aris­ing from the on­go­ing ten­sions be­tween the Unit­ed States and Venezuela.

A for­mer For­eign Af­fairs min­is­ter is call­ing for greater diplo­ma­cy as ten­sions rise be­tween Venezuela and Trinidad and To­ba­go, fol­low­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s sup­port for US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s an­ti-nar­cotics cam­paign in the Caribbean.