The role of the fam­i­ly is cru­cial to the de­vel­op­ment of T&T, says Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo.

In her Di­vali mes­sage to the na­tion, Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has urged cit­i­zens to draw strength from the fes­ti­val’s teach­ings of light tri­umph­ing over dark­ness and good over­com­ing evil.

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo is un­der­scor­ing the fact that the Hin­du fes­ti­val of Di­vali of­fers cit­i­zens an op­por­tu­ni­ty for in­tro­spec­tion and for spir­i­tu­al en­light­en­ment.

For­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment (MP) NiLe­ung Hy­po­lite is be­ing praised by his fam­i­ly and friends for his life of ser­vant­hood.

A 30-year-old poul­try work­er has been sen­tenced to al­most three and a half years in prison for sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ing a nine-year-old dis­tant rel­a­tive when he was a teenag­er.

A busi­ness­man from cen­tral Trinidad has ob­tained an in­junc­tion against a so­cial me­dia page, which pub­lish­es posts about the al­leged in­fi­deli­ty and abu­sive be­hav­iour of men.

An 18-year-old stu­dent suf­fered a frac­tured rib af­ter a ve­hi­cle hit her while she crossed the road in Point Fortin on Tues­day.

The Supreme Court’s con­ser­v­a­tive ma­jor­i­ty on Wednes­day al­lowed Vir­ginia to re­sume its purge of vot­er reg­is­tra­tions that the state says is aimed at stop­ping peo­ple who are not U.S. cit­i­zens from vot­ing.

The Cen­tral Bank of Bar­ba­dos (CBB) Wednes­day said de­spite glob­al eco­nom­ic un­cer­tain­ties and the neg­a­tive con­se­quences of Hur­ri­cane Beryl, Bar­ba­dos has main­tained a steady path of eco­nom­ic growth and re­silience.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has con­firmed that no ap­proval or per­mis­sions have been grant­ed for the stag­ing of the Kman Sixx con­cert sched­uled for this Sat­ur­day, No­vem­ber 2, at St Paul's Street.

Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) min­is­ters of the en­vi­ron­ment and sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment Wednes­day said re­gion­al coun­tries have been en­gaged in an ex­ten­sive in­ter­na­tion­al en­vi­ron­ment agen­da which will evolve with key de­ci­sion-mak­ing on bio­di­ver­si­ty, cli­mate change, land degra­da­tion and plas­tics.

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo says the role of the fam­i­ly is cru­cial to the de­vel­op­ment of Trinidad aPres­i­dent Kan­ga­loo: Strong fam­i­lies cru­cial to na­tion’s de­vel­op­ment­nd To­ba­go. She made this state­ment while de­liv­er­ing the fea­ture ad­dress at the Di­vali Na­gar cel­e­bra­tions and dance com­pe­ti­tion on Tues­day. Kan­ga­loo not­ed that fam­i­lies that ex­tend love and sup­port can sig­nif­i­cant­ly in­flu­ence the lives and be­hav­iour of in­di­vid­u­als. She re­marked that those who live in homes char­ac­terised by sup­port, safe­ty, and love are far less like­ly to en­gage in acts of vi­o­lence and abuse to­wards oth­ers.