Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she is deeply sad­dened by the death of Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress coun­cil­lor Romona Vic­tor, adding that the tragedy re­in­forces the im­por­tance of reach­ing out for help.

Leader of Gov­ern­ment Busi­ness in the House, Bar­ry Padarath, says the Prime Min­is­ter stood up for her­self and oth­ers when she told Op­po­si­tion MP Colm Im­bert, “I’ll cuff you down.”

House Speak­er Nizam Mo­hammed is call­ing on par­lia­men­tar­i­ans to show more deco­rum while en­gag­ing in ban­ter dur­ing de­bates. 

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) coun­cil­lor Romona Vic­tor and her hus­band, Rod­ney Ram­sumair, were found dead in their Siparia home yes­ter­day, in what po­lice sus­pect may have been a mur­der-sui­cide.

An ex­ten­sive mul­ti-agency res­cue op­er­a­tion was un­der­way in the Lala­ja South Road area, off the Ari­ma–Blan­chisseuse Road last evening, af­ter 40-year-old Faiyyad Ho­sein, of Tabaquite Road, Rio Claro, suf­fered a frac­tured right fe­mur while rap­pelling down a se­ries of wa­ter­falls ear­li­er yes­ter­day.

The Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) has re­voked the ap­point­ment of di­rec­tor Dr Ah­mad Khan, a mere four months af­ter he was in­stalled on the board of the en­er­gy com­pa­ny.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing an in­ci­dent where a 17-year-old girl was al­leged­ly kid­napped and raped by a PH taxi dri­ver on her way to school on Fri­day.

The law­suit against the Catholic Church, St Do­minic’s Chil­dren’s Home, and the State will face its first hur­dle to­day as the mat­ter goes be­fore Jus­tice Car­ol Gob­in to de­ter­mine whether the mat­ter is too old to pur­sue.

Chief Jus­tice Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh has been asked to con­sid­er im­ple­ment­ing a mon­i­tor­ing mech­a­nism when a com­mit­tee is ap­point­ed by a court to ad­min­is­ter the af­fairs of a per­son suf­fer­ing from a men­tal ill­ness. 

Dozens of peo­ple gath­ered yes­ter­day at the Brun­ton Av­enue, Diego Mar­tin home of the late Par­manan “Pan­cho” Yarna to pay their fi­nal re­spects and re­turn the warmth he shared with them at his Port-of-Spain snack­ettes, to his griev­ing loved ones.

Di­ef­fen­thaller was known for her ground­break­ing lo­cal soap opera West­wood Park, which ran for six sea­sons and was syn­di­cat­ed across the Caribbean re­gion, North Amer­i­ca, the UK and parts of Africa.

A thou­sand pounds of tilapia feed is des­tined for Ja­maica, as a lo­cal com­pa­ny, We­FeedTT, has teamed up with the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture and the Con­cerned Mus­lims of Trinidad and To­ba­go to send a ma­jor ship­ment of re­lief sup­plies to Ja­maica, fol­low­ing the dev­as­ta­tion re­cent­ly ex­pe­ri­enced there.