The hor­rif­ic crash in Cou­va that claimed the lives of two se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cers yes­ter­day pushed road fa­tal­i­ties for this year to 115.

With 18 days re­main­ing in the year, road fa­tal­i­ties stand at 115— a 21 per cent in­crease com­pared to the 95 deaths for the same pe­ri­od in 2023.

Po­lice have de­tained a woman for al­leged­ly lock­ing her two young sons in a dog ken­nel at their home.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has al­leged “col­lu­sion” be­tween the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) and the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), crit­i­cis­ing the EBC’s fail­ure to up­date the vot­er list across all 41 con­stituen­cies through its na­tion­al field ver­i­fi­ca­tion ex­er­cise.

Cab­i­net has ap­proved an in­crease in fund­ing for un­spon­sored steel­bands and steel­pan play­ers. 

Al­though ven­dors op­er­at­ing along Char­lotte Street, Port-of-Spain, wel­comed the ad­di­tion­al days to ply their trade dur­ing the run-up to Christ­mas - a few of them yes­ter­day ex­pressed reser­va­tions as they claimed the stag­gered days would cost them more.

An is­sue at the T&T Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC)’s Scar­bor­ough Sub­sta­tion led to an is­land­wide pow­er out­age in To­ba­go.

Open Schol­ar­ship win­ner Au­ro­ra Rack­al once dread­ed school so much that, as a child, she would cry, throw up, and plead with her par­ents to keep her at home.

A woman, who was raped when she was a teenag­er, has been giv­en the green light to pur­sue a fi­nal ap­peal in her law­suit al­leg­ing that her con­sti­tu­tion­al rights were breached by de­lays in pros­e­cut­ing her at­tack­er.

A for­mer Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT) em­ploy­ee has been or­dered to re­pay a lit­tle over $326,353.22 to the Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers’ Union (CWU).

West In­dies de­feat­ed Bangladesh by four wick­ets in the third and fi­nal ODI to sweep the three-match se­ries at Warn­er Park on Thurs­day.

A drug block op­er­a­tion led by the North East­ern Di­vi­sion yes­ter­day, re­sult­ed in the seizure of a quan­ti­ty of cannabis.