​At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Regi­nald Ar­mour has apol­o­gised to To­bag­o­ni­ans for the woes they have been ex­pe­ri­enc­ing to get ser­vices at the Reg­is­trar Gen­er­al’s Of­fice on the is­land, and has promised to re­solve the is­sues with­in six weeks.

While oth­ers buried them­selves in books, schol­ar­ship win­ner Ri­car­do Jhilmit spent his af­ter­noons im­mersed in foot­ball. Yet, when the re­sults came in, Jhilmit de­liv­ered what his par­ents had hoped for—an Ad­di­tion­al Schol­ar­ship in Cre­ative Arts. Jhilmit trans­ferred from Na­pari­ma Col­lege in San Fer­nan­do to Shi­va Boys’ Hin­du Col­lege be­cause it was clos­er to his Pe­nal Rock Road home.

Min­is­ter of Tourism, Cul­ture and the Arts Min­is­ter Ran­dall Mitchell is tipped to re­ceive nom­i­na­tion with par­ty group back­ing for the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment-held La Brea con­stituen­cy.

All of To­ba­go must be giv­en the choice to de­cide on what type of po­lit­i­cal re­la­tion­ship it wants with Trinidad, says Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) leader Wat­son Duke.

A day af­ter an au­top­sy con­firmed that Sher­ryann Roett had been mur­dered, her un­cle, Dan­ny Kissoon, re­vealed that her killing oc­curred just hours be­fore she was set to ap­pear in court in a do­mes­tic mat­ter.

Po­lice found the body of Venezue­lan na­tion­al Alvin Acos­ta in his Debe apart­ment on Tues­day evening, clas­si­fy­ing his death as a homi­cide even though it was ini­tial­ly re­port­ed as a sui­cide.

Ac­tivist Nafeesa Mo­hammed says Is­lam­o­pho­bia is hin­der­ing the repa­tri­a­tion of T&T women and chil­dren stuck in Syr­i­an camps.

A month af­ter promis­ing to oust Siparia May­or Dood­nath Mayrhoo, Mon De­sir Coun­cil­lor Deryck Bowrin has with­drawn his mo­tion of no con­fi­dence. Bowrin said he de­cid­ed af­ter con­sul­ta­tions with Mayrhoo and oth­ers to re­scind the mo­tion.

Port-of-Spain May­or Chin­ua Al­leyne has an­nounced ex­tend­ed vend­ing days for the Christ­mas sea­son.

Head of the TTPS Spe­cial Vic­tims De­part­ment Su­per­in­ten­dent, Michelle Row­ley-Pow­der, says dis­cus­sions are on­go­ing with the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty of T&T (CATT) on cas­es of chil­dren be­ing en­cour­aged by their par­ents to beg. She said the of­fence of beg­ging re­mains on the law books but there has been no up­date on es­tab­lish­ing a task force to ad­dress the is­sue.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) St Au­gus­tine MP Kadi­jah Ameen is tipped to be re­turned to con­test the seat when the par­ty re­sumes screen­ing this af­ter­noon for sev­er­al con­stituen­cies along the East-West Cor­ri­dor.

Haiti’s in­ter­na­tion­al air­port re­opened on Wednes­day, ex­act­ly one month af­ter it was closed when mem­bers of crim­i­nal gangs fired up­on com­mer­cial air­craft land­ing at the Tou­s­saint Lou­ver­ture In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, in­jur­ing at least one flight at­ten­dant from Spir­it Air­lines.