A 45-year-old fa­ther and busi­ness own­er was gunned down at his work­place on Queen Street, Ari­ma, on Tues­day night.

Sau­di Ara­bia has been of­fi­cial­ly con­firmed by FI­FA as host of the 2034 World Cup in men’s soc­cer, giv­ing the oil-rich king­dom its biggest prize yet for mas­sive spend­ing on glob­al sports dri­ven by Crown Prince Mo­hammed bin Salman.

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) has an­nounced that it will hold a screen­ing for nom­i­nees for five elec­toral seats in prepa­ra­tion for up­com­ing elec­tions. The screen­ing will take place on Thurs­day, De­cem­ber 12, 2024, start­ing at 4:00 PM at the par­ty’s head­quar­ters in Ch­agua­nas, Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Reem Ajour says she last saw her hus­band and then 4-year-old daugh­ter in March when Is­raeli sol­diers raid­ed a fam­i­ly home in north­ern Gaza. She is haunt­ed by those chaot­ic last mo­ments when the sol­diers or­dered her to go – to leave be­hind Ta­lal and Masaa, both wound­ed.

The In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF) says Haiti faces an un­prece­dent­ed mul­ti­di­men­sion­al cri­sis en­com­pass­ing hu­man­i­tar­i­an, eco­nom­ic, so­cial, and se­cu­ri­ty prob­lems and that the econ­o­my of the French-speak­ing Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) coun­try has a low tax base and a large in­for­mal sec­tor that re­lies heav­i­ly on volatile re­mit­tance flows.

Ch­agua­nas West MP Di­nesh Ram­bal­ly is again call­ing on Gov­ern­ment to repa­tri­ate cit­i­zens held in camps in Syr­ia now, and to bring leg­is­la­tion to Par­lia­ment that will ex­pe­dite the process and en­sure their safe­ty up­on re­turn­ing home.

Af­ter 12 mem­bers of Rio Claro Imam Naz­im Mo­hammed’s fam­i­ly went to the Is­lam­ic State to be­come ISIS fight­ers and were killed, the re­li­gious leader yes­ter­day made a pas­sion­ate plea to the T&T Gov­ern­ment to repa­tri­ate Tri­ni chil­dren liv­ing in de­plorable camps in Syr­ia.

Eman­ci­pa­tion Sup­port Com­mit­tee chair­man Za­kiya Uzoma-Wada­da says she left shocked af­ter Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine la­belled Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley a “house slave” af­ter the de­feat of the To­ba­go au­ton­o­my bills on Mon­day.

That’s the view of Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) MPs Rush­ton Paray and Di­nesh Ram­bal­ly, who were among the Op­po­si­tion MPs who vot­ed against the two To­ba­go au­ton­o­my bills on Mon­day.

At least two po­lit­i­cal par­ties are ques­tion­ing the in­tegri­ty of the Cari­com elec­tion ob­servers who have been re­quest­ed to over­see the next gen­er­al elec­tions.

The Op­po­si­tion plans to ap­ply for ju­di­cial re­view by the end of the year to gain ac­cess to in­for­ma­tion re­gard­ing the Oc­to­ber 2023 cy­ber­at­tack on the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT).

Res­i­dents of Wel­come Road, Cunu­pia, say they feel ne­glect­ed by Gov­ern­ment, as their calls for the road to be fixed have been ig­nored.