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.

A Debe man is now in crit­i­cal con­di­tion af­ter at­tempt­ing to res­cue his five-year-old grand­son af­ter a fire broke out in their home at Con­go Vil­lage, Ra­mai Trace, Debe.

A Tabaquite fam­i­ly is call­ing on the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) to ur­gent­ly re­lo­cate a chick­en farm built di­rect­ly op­po­site their home—an op­er­a­tion they say has left them ill, iso­lat­ed, and liv­ing in “prison-like” con­di­tions for years.

Min­is­ter of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment, Kennedy Swarats­ingh, who al­so over­sees en­vi­ron­men­tal mat­ters, has held dis­cus­sions with of­fi­cials from the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates (UAE) that could lead to cli­mate fi­nanc­ing for sev­er­al lo­cal projects.

Six hun­dred young peo­ple were in­duct­ed in­to the 4H Youth De­vel­op­ment Pro­gramme on Fri­day dur­ing a sim­ple but mean­ing­ful cer­e­mo­ny at the NCIC Na­gar, Ch­agua­nas. Stu­dents from schools across Trinidad proud­ly turned out in their 4H uni­forms, each re­ceiv­ing a cer­tifi­cate and an of­fi­cial 4H pin to mark their en­try in­to the or­gan­i­sa­tion.

Warn­ing that T&T is stand­ing at a cross­roads, Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les em­pha­sised that the foun­da­tion Dr Er­ic Williams laid for an “ed­u­cat­ed democ­ra­cy” re­mains the na­tion’s strongest de­fence.

Oil­field Work­ers' Trade Union (OW­TU) 2nd Vice Pres­i­dent Reesa Ram­lo­gan-Jod­ha said T&TEC work­ers are fi­nal­ly re­ceiv­ing much-need­ed fi­nan­cial re­lief.

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

A 33-year-old man was killed on Sat­ur­day morn­ing in what po­lice said was a gang-re­lat­ed in­ci­dent.

Po­lice re­port­ed that around 7:25pm on Fri­day the vic­tim and her moth­er re­port­ed to the Las Lo­mas Po­lice Sta­tion what hap­pened.  

Rel­a­tives of miss­ing fish­er­man Chad Joseph are dis­put­ing claims by At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie and For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers that no Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­al was killed dur­ing a re­cent US op­er­a­tion in Caribbean wa­ters.

Port-of-Spain’s pro­posed $55 mil­lion As­sess­ment Cen­tre and Tem­po­rary Hous­ing Shel­ter for So­cial­ly Dis­placed Peo­ple, orig­i­nal­ly sched­uled for com­ple­tion in Sep­tem­ber 2025, has stalled.