A 33-year-old man was killed on Sat­ur­day morn­ing in what po­lice said was a gang-re­lat­ed in­ci­dent.

Po­lice re­port­ed that around 7:25pm on Fri­day the vic­tim and her moth­er re­port­ed to the Las Lo­mas Po­lice Sta­tion what hap­pened.  

Rel­a­tives of miss­ing fish­er­man Chad Joseph are dis­put­ing claims by At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie and For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers that no Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­al was killed dur­ing a re­cent US op­er­a­tion in Caribbean wa­ters.

Port-of-Spain’s pro­posed $55 mil­lion As­sess­ment Cen­tre and Tem­po­rary Hous­ing Shel­ter for So­cial­ly Dis­placed Peo­ple, orig­i­nal­ly sched­uled for com­ple­tion in Sep­tem­ber 2025, has stalled.

Pres­i­dent of the T&T Au­to­mo­tive Deal­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTA­DA), Visham Bab­wah, says eight-year-old for­eign-used cars are un­suit­able for the lo­cal mar­ket and could cre­ate se­ri­ous long-term prob­lems for con­sumers.

The new chair­man of the board of Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al He­li­copter Ser­vices Lim­it­ed (NHSL), Bar­ry Sama­roo, said there is noth­ing pre­vent­ing him from act­ing in the po­si­tion, as he faces no cur­rent crim­i­nal charges.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Women’s League has con­demned a com­ment made by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar dur­ing Fri­day’s sit­ting of the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, de­scrib­ing her words as “high­ly in­ap­pro­pri­ate” and “whol­ly un­be­com­ing” of the coun­try’s leader.

The In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion has been asked to in­ves­ti­gate an al­leged breach of Sec­tion 28 of the In­tegri­ty in Pub­lic Life Act by Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing, Anil Roberts. The com­plaint claims Roberts un­law­ful­ly dis­closed con­fi­den­tial fi­nan­cial in­for­ma­tion be­long­ing to three pri­vate cit­i­zens: Eloise, Storm, and Soleil Gon­za­lves.

De­spite wit­ness­ing her par­ents’ bru­tal mur­ders, a 19-year-old woman stood strong dur­ing their fu­ner­al yes­ter­day, vow­ing not to be over­come by grief.

For­mer min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance Bri­an Man­ning is urg­ing Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) pres­i­dent Fe­l­isha Thomas to re­sign if she can­not se­cure at least a 10 per cent wage in­crease for pub­lic sec­tor work­ers by Christ­mas.

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Dr Amery Browne has lodged a po­lice re­port af­ter re­ceiv­ing on­line death threats.

The Women’s League of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is con­demn­ing a com­ment made by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Diego Mar­tin North East, Colm Im­bert, yes­ter­day dur­ing a sit­ting of the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives.