Hun­dreds of res­i­dents in Corinth Hills, Ste Madeleine, were left with­out elec­tric­i­ty yes­ter­day morn­ing af­ter van­dals cut util­i­ty ca­bles, forc­ing house­holds to cope with heat, dis­rupt­ed rou­tines and the risk of food spoilage for hours.

It’s a phrase that stirs emo­tions in T&T—the one per cent, com­mon­ly as­so­ci­at­ed with the Syr­i­an-Lebanese com­mu­ni­ty.

As pub­lic de­bate con­tin­ues over the phrase “one per cent,” re­li­gious lead­ers are urg­ing cit­i­zens and pub­lic of­fi­cials to keep the con­ver­sa­tion ground­ed in law, fair­ness and re­spect for all groups in so­ci­ety.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) says that re­spond­ing to a Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion re­quest from Guardian Me­dia on the hir­ing prac­tices and a re­quest to dis­close the fig­ures and those who were hired over the last year is a breach of its pri­va­cy.

The Of­fice of the Om­buds­man has up­held the Min­istry of Civ­il Avi­a­tion’s de­ci­sion to with­hold records re­lat­ing to Unit­ed States mil­i­tary flights through Trinidad and To­ba­go, rul­ing there is no ba­sis to rec­om­mend dis­clo­sure un­der the Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Act (FOIA).

Min­is­ter of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices, Van­dana Mo­hit, says the fu­ture of the un­der-con­struc­tion As­sess­ment Cen­tre and Tem­po­rary Hous­ing Fa­cil­i­ty for the So­cial­ly Dis­placed on South Quay, Port of Spain, is un­der re­view, as she re­spond­ed to Op­po­si­tion Leader Pene­lope Beck­les’ de­mands for an up­date on the project.

Con­cerns over po­lit­i­cal vic­tim­i­sa­tion, dis­pro­por­tion­ate fund­ing among re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions and the un­will­ing­ness of some to speak out on pub­lic is­sues were raised dur­ing an in­ter­faith cer­e­mo­ny mark­ing the Diego Mar­tin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion’s 3rd an­niver­sary yes­ter­day.

A re­union be­tween ac­tivist Alyssa Phillip and her friend Ka­ia Sealy has cap­tured the hearts of thou­sands of peo­ple on so­cial me­dia, with a Face­book post show­ing the pair em­brac­ing re­ceiv­ing more than 9,000 re­ac­tions.

Trinidad and To­ba­go is mo­bil­is­ing re­lief ef­forts to as­sist neigh­bour­ing Venezuela fol­low­ing dev­as­tat­ing twin earth­quakes, mea­sur­ing over 7.1 in mag­ni­tude, that killed around 1,400 peo­ple and de­stroyed sev­er­al com­mu­ni­ties.

A 15-year-old Cunu­pia boy is the coun­try’s lat­est road fa­tal­i­ty af­ter he lost con­trol of his fa­ther’s mo­tor­bike he was rid­ing and hit a car on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

Three peo­ple were robbed when they stopped on the Beetham High­way to in­spect dam­ages to their ve­hi­cle af­ter a mi­nor ac­ci­dent on Fri­day night.

As the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the ar­rest of Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve deep­ens, new in­for­ma­tion has sur­faced that the cou­ple was ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the of­fence of con­spir­a­cy to mur­der.