From a hill­top in St Barbs, Laven­tille, the view stretch­es across Port-of-Spain, of­fer­ing one of the cap­i­tal’s most strik­ing panora­mas.

To­ba­go Sec­re­tary of Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment and So­cial Pro­tec­tion Ian Pol­lard re­mains in “good spir­its” de­spite be­ing ward­ed at St Clair Med­ical Cen­tre in Port-of-Spain, ac­cord­ing to his sis­ter Heather Pol­lard.

Stu­dents who sat the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am will get their re­sults on Thurs­day, ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion.

A gyp­sum "mud­man" from Va­len­cia has been con­vict­ed of re­peat­ed­ly bug­ger­ing a 15-year-old boy, whom he took in af­ter the teenag­er ran away from home over a decade ago.

Wood­en pal­lets for mat­tress­es, med­ical sup­plies, wa­ter pu­rifi­ca­tion plants, heavy ma­chin­ery to search through rub­ble and body bags are among the lat­est ur­gent re­quests from Venezue­lan au­thor­i­ties as the hu­man­i­tar­i­an cri­sis deep­ens in the wake of last Wednes­day’s dev­as­tat­ing twin earth­quakes.

Methanex Cor­po­ra­tion has an­nounced that it will in­def­i­nite­ly idle its Ti­tan methanol plant in Trinidad and To­ba­go af­ter fail­ing to se­cure a new nat­ur­al gas con­tract.

A stolen ve­hi­cle was re­cov­ered and one man ar­rest­ed dur­ing a po­lice op­er­a­tion car­ried out in the Va­len­cia Dis­trict on Sun­day night.

Gabriel Mar­tinel­li scored the win­ning goal late in in­jury time to give five-time cham­pi­on Brazil a 2-1 win over Japan in the round of 32 at the World Cup on Mon­day.

One man has been ar­rest­ed and a cache of il­le­gal am­mu­ni­tion and cannabis seized fol­low­ing a po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing in the North East­ern Di­vi­sion last night.

A gyp­sum "mud­man" from Va­len­cia has been con­vict­ed of re­peat­ed­ly bug­ger­ing a 15-year-old boy, whom he took in af­ter the boy ran away from home over a decade ago.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is seek­ing pub­lic as­sis­tance in the ur­gent search for 28-year-old Na­ho­mi Lis­beth Lu­cart Ce­de­no, who has been re­port­ed miss­ing from Ch­agua­nas.

A Trinidad-based en­vi­ron­men­tal in­no­va­tion group is of­fer­ing its ex­per­tise to Gov­ern­ment as it moves to tack­le the an­nu­al sar­gas­sum in­va­sion, say­ing the sea­weed can be con­vert­ed in­to fer­tilis­er and oth­er agri­cul­tur­al prod­ucts to strength­en food se­cu­ri­ty.