The Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al has sig­nalled its in­ten­tion to pur­sue a fi­nal ap­peal over a de­ci­sion by the Court of Ap­peal to up­hold a $20 mil­lion de­fault judg­ment in a ma­li­cious pros­e­cu­tion law­suit brought by nine men for­mer­ly ac­cused of the kid­nap­ping and mur­der of busi­ness­woman Vin­dra Naipaul-Cool­man.

Pres­i­dent of the 30th Con­fer­ence of the Par­ties (COP30), An­dré Cor­rêa do La­go, says Small Is­land De­vel­op­ing States (SIDS) have found a home in Belém, Brazil, and that their needs will be front and cen­tre at the Unit­ed Na­tions Cli­mate Change Con­fer­ence.

Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Bar­ry Padarath has dis­missed stereo­types of “un­pro­duc­tive” pub­lic ser­vants while com­mend­ing a con­tin­gent of 25 T&T Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) work­ers for vol­un­teer­ing to join a mu­tu­al aid team de­ployed to Ja­maica to as­sist with re­cov­ery ef­forts fol­low­ing Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa.

Fif­teen mem­bers of the Homer fam­i­ly, whose homes were de­stroyed by fire at Ve­ga De Oropouche on Fri­day, have been tem­porar­i­ly housed at the con­stituen­cy of­fice of Min­is­ter of De­fence and MP for To­co/San­gre Grande, Wayne Sturge.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the fa­tal shoot­ing of a man ear­ly Mon­day morn­ing dur­ing an al­ter­ca­tion with an off-du­ty po­lice of­fi­cer in Siparia.

CAS­TRIES, St. Lu­cia, Nov 9, CMC – St. Lu­cians will go to the polls on De­cem­ber 1 to elect a new gov­ern­ment, 11 months be­fore the gen­er­al elec­tion is con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly due in No­vem­ber 2026.

Par­lia­men­tary Sec­re­tary in the Min­istry of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs, Wil­fred Nicholas Mor­ris, has called for stronger in­ter­na­tion­al col­lab­o­ra­tion to com­bat nar­co-traf­fick­ing and transna­tion­al crime, warn­ing that these threats have un­der­mined peace and se­cu­ri­ty in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The ANSA McAL Group has part­nered with the Gov­ern­ment of Ja­maica to help re­store a safe and sus­tain­able wa­ter sup­ply to homes, schools, and es­sen­tial fa­cil­i­ties af­fect­ed by re­cent dis­rup­tions.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has an­nounced that vet­er­an en­gi­neer and ex­ec­u­tive Ian Ram­rat­tan will be the new gen­er­al man­ag­er of the T&T Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC). Ram­rat­tan is ex­pect­ed to as­sume the role be­fore the end of the year.

Po­lice have charged two stu­dents seen phys­i­cal­ly as­sault­ing an­oth­er stu­dent on a stair­case at the Siparia East Sec­ondary School.

De­fence Sec­re­tary Pe­te Hegseth on Mon­day an­nounced the lat­est in a se­ries of strikes on boats ac­cused of fer­ry­ing drugs, killing six peo­ple in at­tacks on two ves­sels in the east­ern Pa­cif­ic Ocean.

The Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al of the Or­gan­i­sa­tion of Amer­i­can States (OAS), Al­bert Ramdin, has wel­comed the agree­ment to strength­en co­op­er­a­tion be­tween the pub­lic and pri­vate sec­tors in the eco­nom­ic, so­cial, and ed­u­ca­tion­al de­vel­op­ment of the re­gion, par­tic­u­lar­ly to sup­port Haiti.