Twelve years af­ter the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly, THA, spent 24 mil­lion dol­lars to ac­quire Sanc­tu­ary Vil­las in Black Rock, the prop­er­ty is now up for sale.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) will ac­ti­vate an ad­di­tion­al hot­line for school prin­ci­pals and su­per­vi­sors ahead of the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am­i­na­tion.

Vil­lagers of Rio Claro took to the streets in protest on Mon­day, call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment and the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) to re­plant forests cleared for en­er­gy projects and pro­vide long-promised em­ploy­ment to res­i­dents.

Dead are 17-year-old Jor­dan Cud­joe Burke, 22-year-old Ish­mael Matthews, and 21-year-old Rober­to Samuel Car­los of Corinth Hills, San Fer­nan­do.

Two Laven­tille men and one Beetham man are ex­pect­ed to be ques­tioned af­ter they were caught by po­lice on the com­pound of a Laven­tille hard­ware store ear­ly on Mon­day morn­ing.

A 21-year-old Bel­mont man is be­ing treat­ed for gun­shot wounds af­ter an at­tack near his home on Sun­day night.

Two peo­ple were killed and sev­er­al oth­ers bad­ly hurt when an Air Cana­da re­gion­al jet struck a fire truck on a run­way while land­ing at New York’s La­Guardia Air­port, of­fi­cials said.

The Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go says mi­nors de­tained un­der the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) are well tak­en care of while in cus­tody, fol­low­ing ques­tions sur­round­ing the de­ten­tion of a 16-year-old boy un­der the spe­cial pow­ers re­cent­ly.

Mus­lim fam­i­lies’ up­dat­ed plan to repa­tri­ate their rel­a­tives from Mid­dle East refugee camps out­lines mea­sures to as­sess whether re­turnees pose se­cu­ri­ty risks, ad­dress men­tal health con­cerns, and re­quires a con­tract oblig­at­ing com­pli­ance with Trinidad and To­ba­go’s se­cu­ri­ty pro­to­cols, with penal­ties for vi­o­la­tions in­clud­ing im­pris­on­ment.

For­mer Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme Com­pa­ny (CEPEP) chair­man Joel Ed­wards and 10 for­mer board mem­bers are fac­ing a law­suit over their de­ci­sion to ap­prove a three-year ex­ten­sion for con­trac­tors just days be­fore last year’s gen­er­al elec­tion.

Bats were raised high, pink bal­loons drift­ed sky­ward, and tears flowed freely as fam­i­ly, friends and team­mates bid a fi­nal farewell to slain crick­eter Rashme Deoa­jit, whose life was cut short in a bru­tal at­tack last week.

A se­ries of sus­pect­ed ar­son at­tacks across south Trinidad over the week­end has left a fam­i­ly dis­placed, a church shak­en, and mul­ti­ple prop­er­ties de­stroyed, as po­lice in­ves­ti­gate three sep­a­rate in­ci­dents in Clax­ton Bay, Siparia and San Fer­nan­do.