A ran­som de­mand has been re­ceived for the safe re­lease of miss­ing Caribbean Air­lines pi­lot Daniel Kawall.

The new school term has opened un­der the shad­ow of for­eign ex­change short­ages, with lo­cal book­sellers warn­ing that lim­it­ed ac­cess to US dol­lars is leav­ing fam­i­lies strug­gling to se­cure text­books.

In a week of mount­ing crit­i­cism at home and abroad, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar told Hin­du devo­tees that one must have “bel­ly” to stand against in­jus­tice.

The Pub­lic Trans­port Ser­vice Cor­po­ra­tion (PTSC) has ground­ed the dri­ver in­volved in a fa­tal ac­ci­dent in Port-of-Spain, pend­ing the out­come of on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

Ch­agua­nas May­or Faaiq Mo­hammed has ap­pealed to the Gov­ern­ment to pro­vide greater sup­port for cul­tur­al cel­e­bra­tions in the bor­ough, high­light­ing their role in fos­ter­ing com­mu­ni­ty uni­ty and en­gag­ing youth.

As T&T grap­ples with a grow­ing for­eign ex­change short­age, econ­o­mists re­main sharply di­vid­ed over the best path for­ward.

BEI­JING, Chi­na—For­mer for­eign af­fairs min­is­ter Dr Amery Browne is urg­ing the gov­ern­ment to in­ten­si­fy diplo­mat­ic re­la­tions, while his­to­ri­an Dr Jerome Teelucks­ingh warns that World War III is no longer a mat­ter of if, but when.

Works and In­fra­struc­ture Min­is­ter Jear­lean John says she can­not say when the $1.3 bil­lion Cen­tral Block of the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal will fi­nal­ly open to the pub­lic.

Two com­pa­nies led by the wife and daugh­ter of Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Fos­ter Cum­mings were award­ed $15.6 mil­lion in Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) con­tract ex­ten­sions just be­fore the 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tions, HDC doc­u­ments show.

Chief Jus­tice,Ivor Archie, has ap­point­ed Ma­jor (Re­tired) Ar­den D. Williams to the Emer­gency Pow­ers Re­view Tri­bunal, re­plac­ing Kent Sam­lal.

The vic­tim was iden­ti­fied as Wen­dell Charles of Capildeo Lands, Si­ta Dri­ve, off Pi­o­neer Dri­ve, Pe­tit Val­ley.

Of­fi­cers of the Na­tion­al Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Unit (NSOU) seized a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing a tar­get­ed op­er­a­tion in Ch­agua­nas yes­ter­day.