Feb­ru­ary was a month of mem­o­rable events in Trinidad and To­ba­go, from en­vi­ron­men­tal crises to dev­as­tat­ing news and bomb-drop­ping events.

Three months af­ter be­ing shot by a gun­man out­side her home, a WPC is back be­hind a drum set, mak­ing mu­sic again.

“All my joy, gone,” sobbed Shane Gomez, a day af­ter his com­mon-law-wife Sta­cy Gopauls­ingh was chopped to death in a home in­va­sion in Moru­ga.

The fu­ner­al for the late min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion and D’Abadie/O’Meara) Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian and two of her chil­dren will take place on Jan­u­ary 2, 2025.

For­mer se­cu­ri­ty guard Pe­o­la Bap­tiste sur­vived nine gun­shots, a de­bil­i­tat­ing stroke, and the trau­ma of wit­ness­ing her two friends killed dur­ing a rob­bery out­side Pen­ny­wise Mall in La Ro­main two years ago.

The Oil­field Work­ers Trade Union has once again raised the alarm over what it claimed to be ram­pant mis­man­age­ment, un­safe work­ing con­di­tions, and cor­rup­tion in the op­er­a­tions of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tri­cal Com­mis­sion (T&TEC).

A 37-year-old Aranguez man was gunned down while dri­ving through Ch­agua­nas on Christ­mas morn­ing.

As the fire spread rapid­ly in­side her home, wheel­chair-bound pen­sion­er Rosil­ia Mitchell had to be lift­ed bod­i­ly and brought to safe­ty, where she watched the fire sweep through three hous­es, dis­plac­ing four fam­i­lies.

A Christ­mas morn­ing bur­glary at a Bel­mont home did not go as planned for ban­dits who were beat­en by a 74-year-old man.  

Shaz­ara Mo­hammed and her four chil­dren woke up with ex­cite­ment on Christ­mas morn­ing as they re­ceived fur­ni­ture and gifts from con­trac­tor Ash­mead Ali who com­plet­ed their un­fin­ished house in record time, af­ter Guardian Me­dia high­light­ed their strug­gles on De­cem­ber 2. 

It was not a very Mer­ry Christ­mas for a 25-year-old man who was ar­rest­ed by po­lice try­ing to break in­to a jew­ellery store in down­town Port-of-Spain ear­ly on Christ­mas morn­ing.

As he de­liv­ered his Christ­mas morn­ing ser­mon at Our La­dy of Per­pet­u­al Help Church in San Fer­nan­do, Fa­ther David Khan called on parish­ioners to show for­give­ness.