The Trinidad and To­ba­go Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) con­firms a fire oc­curred at the Mal­oney Gar­dens Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment ear­ly this morn­ing. No one was hurt.

Two Mar­aval men were ar­rest­ed and are ex­pect­ed to be charged af­ter po­lice raid­ed a house used to grow and cul­ti­vate mar­i­jua­na on Fri­day.

Ch­agua­nas busi­ness­man Tariq Razak, 59, was gunned down out­side his busi­ness on the west­ern end of Er­ic Street on Sat­ur­day morn­ing. Res­i­dents re­port­ed hear­ing three loud ex­plo­sions short­ly af­ter 6 am, and Razak’s body, bear­ing gun­shot wounds to the head, was found wear­ing a blue shirt and blue trousers. His body was slumped next to a grey sedan parked out­side the com­pound gate. Rel­a­tives de­clined to speak to the me­dia.

A 40-year-old San­gre Grande man had to dive for cov­er when he was shot at by a gun­man near his home on Fri­day night.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the cir­cum­stances that led to the death of a sus­pect­ed ban­dit who tried to rob a La Hor­quet­ta gro­cery on Fri­day af­ter­noon.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert is ad­mit­ting to ad­di­tion­al cost over­runs at the ANR Robin­son Air­port which dif­fer from fig­ures he pro­vid­ed to jour­nal­ists dur­ing a me­dia con­fer­ence on Thurs­day. As of now, the cost is clos­er to TT$118 mil­lion (US$17.5 mil­lion) and not TT$16.9m (US$2.5m) he orig­i­nal­ly stat­ed.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress MP Rudy In­dars­ingh has ac­cused Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert of try­ing to be­lit­tle and hu­mil­i­ate me­dia re­porters.

Re­flect­ing on his ad­min­is­tra­tion’s per­for­mance as they marked three years in of­fice yes­ter­day, Au­gus­tine said his team did well.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has re­frained from di­rect­ly com­ment­ing on cost over­runs re­lat­ed to the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port ex­pan­sion project.

The “chaos” of the To­ba­go air­port ter­mi­nal project is de­tailed in the Mac­Don­ald Re­port and the Gleeds Re­port, whose con­tents raise big ques­tions on the project which must be in­ves­ti­gat­ed, UNC MP David Lee says.

The sec­ond round of in-per­son screen­ing of po­ten­tial can­di­dates for the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress will recom­mence “soon,” ac­cord­ing to po­lit­i­cal leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

For two years, Anan­da Ram­per­sad com­mut­ed al­most three hours dai­ly from Table­land to Pe­nal to at­tend school at Shi­va Boys’ Hin­du Col­lege.