From Cou­va in cen­tral Trinidad, Pe­nal in the South and San­ta Flo­ra in the South-West, mo­torists con­verged at the Li­cens­ing Of­fice in San Fer­nan­do on Sun­day af­ter­noon, drawn by ur­gency and fear of mount­ing penal­ties. By then, the line had al­ready stretched near­ly 600 me­tres, crawl­ing from Princess Mar­garet Street to the Bal­isi­er Av­enue com­pound.

While mo­torists in South Trinidad faced long lines at the Li­cens­ing Of­fice yes­ter­day, the Port-of-Spain branch was less chaot­ic.

A La Ro­maine plumber was left sift­ing through the ru­ins of his home on Sun­day af­ter a fire re­duced the struc­ture to rub­ble, while res­i­dents turned their anger on a Venezue­lan mi­grant woman they be­lieved was re­spon­si­ble, drag­ging and beat­ing her in the street.

The au­top­sy of 74-year-old Doo­d­hani Vish­van­ti Sook­nanan has been post­poned to to­day, as in­ves­ti­ga­tors await the re­sults of the post-mortem to de­cide how to ap­proach the mat­ter.

A 40-year-old woman drowned while hik­ing near the Madamas Riv­er on Sat­ur­day. She has been iden­ti­fied as Jes­si­ca Jor­dan, of Man­a­ham­bre Road, Ste Madeleine, San Fer­nan­do.

An in­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions ex­pert says the Gov­ern­ment is wait­ing for clear­er di­rec­tion from the Unit­ed States be­fore de­ter­min­ing its next steps on Venezuela, avoid­ing state­ments that could be read as di­verg­ing from Wash­ing­ton’s pol­i­cy.

A High Court Judge has dis­missed a defama­tion law­suit brought against En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal by a busi­ness­man and two of his com­pa­nies. 

A meet­ing be­tween Min­is­ter of Fi­nance Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo and Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) Dr Dar­ryl Din­di­al, sched­uled for Wednes­day, is be­ing close­ly watched by the A meet­ing be­tween Min­is­ter of Fi­nance Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo and Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) Dr Dar­ryl Din­di­al, sched­uled for to­mor­row, will be close­ly watched by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA), as teach­ers await long-promised salary ad­just­ments and the restora­tion of key ben­e­fits.

Firearms, am­mu­ni­tion, firearm parts and cannabis were seized dur­ing po­lice op­er­a­tions in the West­ern Di­vi­sion on Sun­day.

A se­ries of pa­trols and search­es in Tu­na­puna led to the seizure of a gun, am­mu­ni­tion and a wire­less ra­dio ear­ly on Mon­day morn­ing.

In just over a month, peo­ple from all over the world will come to Trinidad and To­ba­go for the great­est show on earth. But if you’ve lit­er­al­ly got the Car­ni­val fever right now, well, it may be more than just the rum and Co­ca-Co­la to blame for that.

The Unit­ed States De­part­ment of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty (DHS) says it has in re­cent days de­tained the “worst of the worst” crim­i­nals, in­clud­ing those con­vict­ed of sex­u­al as­sault of a child, as­sault, and hu­man traf­fick­ing.