The Peo­ple’s Cham­pi­ons, one of the slates con­test­ing the Peo­ple Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) in­ter­nal elec­tion, will launch their cam­paign this evening.

Thou­sands of bar­rels of what is be­lieved to be used en­gine oil have been dis­cov­ered il­le­gal­ly dumped in the hull of an aban­doned long­lin­er ship in an area known as the “Grave­yard” off Ch­aguara­mas

San Fer­nan­do May­or Robert Par­ris is urg­ing any­one with knowl­edge of fi­nan­cial wrong­do­ing at the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion (SFCC) to speak up, fol­low­ing se­ri­ous al­le­ga­tions made by Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen.

Ven­dors who refuse to take up le­gal spots at the Fruit Court along Har­ris Prom­e­nade will have to leave San Fer­nan­do to con­tin­ue ply­ing their trade.

A 44-year-old labour­er who was gunned down at his aunt’s home in Gas­par­il­lo yes­ter­day morn­ing had been charged 17 times for var­i­ous of­fences, in­clud­ing firearm-re­lat­ed crimes, po­lice have con­firmed.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe has re­quest­ed a re­port from the South West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) CEO Dr Bri­an Ar­mour on the two non-func­tion­al CT scan­ners at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

Still try­ing to un­der­stand what caused the fire that de­stroyed his home on Tues­day, a Rio Claro gar­den­er is now seek­ing as­sis­tance to re­build.

As un­cer­tain­ty grows in Trinidad and To­ba­go over new Unit­ed States visa poli­cies that in­volve mon­i­tor­ing stu­dent so­cial me­dia, the Chi­nese Em­bassy has re­newed its call for T&T stu­dents to con­sid­er aca­d­e­m­ic op­por­tu­ni­ties in Chi­na.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe has con­firmed that re­cent sub­vari­ants of COVID-19, in­clud­ing those cir­cu­lat­ing glob­al­ly, have not been de­tect­ed in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Prais­ing God for her bless­ings, grand­moth­er Geneive Pierre broke down in tears af­ter learn­ing that a Good Samar­i­tan had of­fered to pur­chase land and build a house for her af­ter hers col­lapsed last Mon­day.

For­mer Min­is­ter of Tourism, Cul­ture, and the Arts Ran­dall Mitchell has re­ject­ed claims made by Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Ed­ward Alexan­der that beach chair rental op­er­a­tors are part of a gang en­ter­prise.

For­mer chief mag­is­trate Mar­cia Ay­ers-Cae­sar has qui­et­ly re­sumed du­ties as a High Court Judge, weeks af­ter the Privy Coun­cil ruled she was im­prop­er­ly pres­sured to re­sign in 2017. Though she re­turned last month, her name has not yet been added to the Ju­di­cia­ry’s of­fi­cial list of judges. Le­gal sources say she has so far han­dled on­ly cham­ber mat­ters.