Crews searched for bod­ies in strand­ed cars and sod­den build­ings Thurs­day as peo­ple tried to sal­vage what they could from their ru­ined homes fol­low­ing mon­strous flash floods in Spain that claimed at least 158 lives, with 155 deaths con­firmed in the east­ern Va­len­cia re­gion alone.

The Pres­by­ter­ian Pri­ma­ry Schools’ Board of Ed­u­ca­tion says it has no ob­jec­tion to stu­dents and teach­ers wear­ing East In­di­an at­tire to mark Di­vali cel­e­bra­tions in its 72 pri­ma­ry schools.

A shoot­ing in­ci­dent in the Va­len­cia dis­trict on Wednes­day night, in which gun­men in­vad­ed a house on Plan­ta­tion Road, has left a fa­ther dead and his two sons fight­ing for their lives at hos­pi­tal.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert yes­ter­day gave Caribbean Air­lines the go-ahead to ac­cept the T&T Air­line Pi­lots’ As­so­ci­a­tion’s (TTAL­PA) re­quest for a four per cent salary in­crease.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley last evening urged the pop­u­la­tion to let the Hin­du fes­ti­val’s spir­i­tu­al theme of knowl­edge over ig­no­rance pre­vail against those aimed at sow­ing dis­cord and di­vi­sive­ness through­out T&T.

Fire of­fi­cials said the body of Al­bert Kei­th, 78, of Val­ley Dri­ve, Sixth Av­enue, Barataria, was found af­ter his wood­en home burned to the ground.

The man­ag­er of the Suarez Broth­ers Cir­cus is yet to de­cide if they will take Trinidad and To­ba­go off the list of des­ti­na­tions they per­form in af­ter be­ing robbed on Tues­day night.

Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) chief ed­u­ca­tion and re­search of­fi­cer Ozzi War­wick has blamed the 2018 clo­sure of Petrotrin for T&T’s for­eign ex­change woes.

A de­ci­sion by the Privy Coun­cil to dis­miss a fi­nal ap­peal over a $83 mil­lion de­fault judg­ment against the Es­tate Man­age­ment and Busi­ness De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (EM­BD) has no ef­fect on an over $300 mil­lion pend­ing case brought by the State com­pa­ny against three for­mer of­fi­cials, a group of con­trac­tors and Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Mooni­lal. 

The new pres­i­dent of the Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment and Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers (NUGFW), Christo­pher Streete, is urg­ing mem­bers to get more in­volved in the busi­ness of the union.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) Laven­tille West con­stituen­cy unit has or­dered that a “prop­er­ly con­sti­tut­ed” meet­ing of the unit’s Women’s League be held due to cer­tain “ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties” at the League’s meet­ing on Mon­day, where at­ten­dees large­ly vot­ed for at­tor­ney Ka­reem Mar­celle to be the can­di­date—and in­cum­bent Laven­tille West MP Fitzger­ald Hinds re­ceived on­ly one vote.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) has cho­sen nurse Natasha Mo­hammed as its prospec­tive gen­er­al elec­tion can­di­date for Siparia, af­ter com­plet­ing screen­ing on Tues­day for 19 Op­po­si­tion-held con­stituen­cies.