Dan­ny Guer­ra, 49, the own­er of DG Homes, was laid to rest yes­ter­day, a week af­ter he was gunned down by masked as­sailants while seat­ed in his black Toy­ota Hilux at his North Oropouche busi­ness.

A fire short­ly af­ter mid­day yes­ter­day caused mil­lions of dol­lars in dam­age at the up­per lev­el of Mit­su­da Su­per­store on Old Road, Long­denville.

A 77-year-old man was found dead af­ter a fire de­stroyed his home in Sea Lots, Port-of-Spain, on Wednes­day.

Tragedy struck off Ica­cos Vil­lage in Ce­dros yes­ter­day af­ter a fish­er­man died when a fish­ing pirogue cap­sized at sea.

The stab­bing of a mi­nor at the Na­tion­al Care and Em­pow­er­ment Cen­tre in Pi­paro has reignit­ed scruti­ny of the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go, with So­cial De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Van­dana Mo­hit de­mand­ing the im­me­di­ate re­vo­ca­tion of the board’s ap­point­ments.

The re­cent mur­ders of Sta­cy Sama­roo and Rashme Deoa­jit have reignit­ed calls from a women’s group for a spe­cial court to ad­dress gen­der-based vi­o­lence in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ex­tend­ed warm Eid-ul-Fitr greet­ings to Mus­lims in Trinidad and To­ba­go as the holy month of Ra­madan draws to a close.

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo has de­scribed Eid-ul-Fitr as a pe­ri­od of “grat­i­tude, gen­eros­i­ty, re­new­al, and deep spir­i­tu­al re­flec­tion.”

Truck­ers are in a buoy­ant mood fol­low­ing a meet­ing with Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine yes­ter­day aboard the Blue Wave Har­mo­ny as it sailed from Port-of-Spain to Scar­bor­ough.

A man from South Oropouche has threat­ened to sue the State over an un­pro­voked beat­ing by prison of­fi­cers while he was on re­mand for a rob­bery charge. 

A 36-year-old fac­to­ry work­er from Ch­agua­nas has been ac­quit­ted of be­ing in pos­ses­sion of a se­mi-au­to­mat­ic pis­tol mod­i­fied to be ful­ly au­to­mat­ic.

The Con­trac­tors and Gen­er­al Work­ers Union (CG­WU) is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo to in­ter­vene in the on­go­ing de­lay of back pay and salary in­creas­es owed to dai­ly-paid work­ers at the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion (SFCC).