The Unit­ed States Fed­er­al Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tion (FBI) is ex­tend­ing its ro­bust toolk­it for com­bat­ing cor­rup­tion to part­ners in the Caribbean, through new mech­a­nisms that can sup­port the re­gion’s fight against il­lic­it fi­nan­cial ac­tiv­i­ties and gov­er­nance chal­lenges.

Pales­tin­ian med­ical of­fi­cials say Is­raeli airstrikes have killed at least 28 peo­ple in the Gaza Strip, in­clud­ing sev­en chil­dren and a woman, hours af­ter the U.N. Gen­er­al As­sem­bly over­whelm­ing­ly ap­proved a res­o­lu­tion de­mand­ing an im­me­di­ate cease­fire in Gaza.

T&TEC has con­firmed that at 10:21 pm yes­ter­day, the en­tire is­land of To­ba­go lost elec­tric­i­ty sup­ply, due to an is­sue that oc­curred at the Scar­bor­ough Sub­sta­tion.

With a gen­er­al elec­tion due next year, ques­tions have arisen about the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion’s (EBC) state of readi­ness.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Air­line Pi­lots’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTAL­PA) yes­ter­day fi­nal­ly signed off on a new four per cent pay hike agree­ment with Caribbean Air­lines (CAL).

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Regi­nald Ar­mour says Gov­ern­ment will need to re­vis­it the To­ba­go au­ton­o­my bills af­ter the Op­po­si­tion’s re­jec­tion of the key Con­sti­tu­tion Amend­ment (To­ba­go Self-Gov­ern­ment) bill.

Some 14,281 mo­torists have ex­ceed­ed the de­mer­it points on their dri­ver’s per­mits and should not be al­lowed back on the na­tion’s roads for a pe­ri­od of time. How­ev­er, the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port (MOWT) keeps run­ning in­to road­blocks when it comes to no­ti­fy­ing the cul­prits.

​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.