A man charged un­der the new Home In­va­sion Act has been grant­ed bail in the sum of $200,000 with strict con­di­tions af­ter ap­pear­ing be­fore the High Court Crim­i­nal Di­vi­sion in south Trinidad.

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers says dis­cus­sions are con­tin­u­ing to ease ten­sions be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and Cari­com, fol­low­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s pub­lic crit­i­cism of the re­gion­al body over the reap­point­ment process for Cari­com Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett.

The T&T Uni­fied Teach­ers' As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) is call­ing on Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath to break his si­lence on ma­jor is­sues af­fect­ing ed­u­ca­tors, in­clud­ing their out­stand­ing back pay pay­ments.

Amid con­cerns over de­clin­ing church mem­ber­ship, weak im­ple­men­ta­tion of past de­ci­sions and the lin­ger­ing ef­fects of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, pres­i­dent of the An­gli­can Church in Trinidad and To­ba­go, the Rt Rev Claude Berkley, has called on An­gli­cans to over­come chal­lenges and try their best to build mem­ber­ship.

Guardian Group has con­tributed TT$100,000 to sup­port schools in west­ern Ja­maica af­fect­ed by Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa, with the funds ear­marked for re­pairs, learn­ing ma­te­ri­als, and elec­tric­i­ty sup­port for im­pact­ed in­sti­tu­tions.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) says it has gained full con­trol of the rup­tured trans­mis­sion main near Beetham Gar­dens and has be­gun de­wa­ter­ing op­er­a­tions ahead of re­pairs sched­uled for com­ple­tion by noon to­mor­row.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar met with a del­e­ga­tion of French busi­ness lead­ers and in­vestors on Thurs­day as the Gov­ern­ment push­es to at­tract for­eign in­vest­ment and ex­pand eco­nom­ic part­ner­ships.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) deputy po­lit­i­cal leader San­jiv Bood­hu has con­demned Gov­ern­ment Sen­a­tor Phillip Alexan­der for sug­gest­ing that the two year old child killed this morn­ing in Bel­mont would still be alive had the pro­posed Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO) leg­is­la­tion been in force.

Op­po­si­tion MP Stu­art Young has crit­i­cised the Gov­ern­ment and Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Alexan­der fol­low­ing the killing of three peo­ple, in­clud­ing a two-year-old child, dur­ing a shoot­ing in Bel­mont on Thurs­day.

Mo­torists are be­ing urged to ex­er­cise cau­tion while trav­el­ling along the Beetham High­way east­bound af­ter a rup­tured wa­ter line in the vicin­i­ty of the NP Gas Sta­tion is caus­ing haz­ardous dri­ving con­di­tions.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice has cor­rect­ed a pre­vi­ous state­ment say­ing that a woman and her son had been con­veyed to hos­pi­tal for med­ical treat­ment af­ter sus­tain­ing gun­shot in­juries in the fa­tal triple mur­der in Bel­mont this morn­ing. Trag­i­cal­ly, the child, Aki­ni Kafi, lat­er suc­cumbed to his in­juries while re­ceiv­ing treat­ment. His fa­ther, Ak­il Kafi, and An­tho­ny Wil­son were al­so killed. The woman re­mains un­der med­ical care.

Griev­ing fa­ther Arnold Jo­gie says he feels his fam­i­ly is be­ing de­nied jus­tice as po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to the jet ski tragedy that claimed the life of his sev­en-year-old daugh­ter, An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie, at Pi­geon Point Her­itage Park, To­ba­go, near­ly a month ago.