Trib­utes have poured in on so­cial me­dia, fol­low­ing the pass­ing of Va­lerie Greene, the icon­ic dancer who, for decades, was the muse, part­ner and stage col­lab­o­ra­tor of late ca­lyp­son­ian Ald­wyn “Lord Kitch­en­er” Roberts. Sev­en­ty-four-year-old Greene died yes­ter­day morn­ing in her son Ker­nal’s arms.

A year and five months af­ter a home in­va­sion oc­curred at his Pe­nal home, a 71-year-old man and his fam­i­ly again fell prey to ban­dits who poi­soned their two dogs be­fore rob­bing them at their Gopie Trace home on Wednes­day.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment is warn­ing that the pro­posed Home In­va­sion (Self De­fence of Prop­er­ty) Bill, 2025, law does not ex­empt a home­own­er from due process when a dead­ly in­ci­dent oc­curs at their home. The Op­po­si­tion is stress­ing that the stand-your-ground law, as it is be­ing called, is nei­ther a get-out-of-jail-free card nor a panacea for crime.

Trinida­di­an artiste Akel “Trinidad Ghost” Mc Lean has been ar­rest­ed in the Unit­ed States, af­ter re­port­ed­ly over­stay­ing his time.

The in­ci­dent oc­curred hours af­ter a Laven­tille man died af­ter be­ing shot by of­fi­cers on Wednes­day night.

Min­is­ter of Works and In­fra­struc­ture, Jear­lean John, is de­fend­ing Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion not to open the Cen­tral Block of the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal (POS­GH), while giv­ing the me­dia a tour of the 12-storey build­ing yes­ter­day.

A fam­i­ly liv­ing along Up­per Rich Plain Road, Diego Mar­tin, says they are now liv­ing in fear that an­oth­er round of heavy rain­fall could send their home crash­ing down the hill­side.

The ma­jor fraud case against for­mer trav­el agent Vicky Boodram, for al­leged­ly de­fraud­ing clients in re­la­tion to a cruise that did not ma­te­ri­alise, has col­lapsed due to pros­e­cu­tion de­lays.

The State is set to pay mil­lions of dol­lars in com­pen­sa­tion to sev­en teach­ers who were by­passed for pro­mo­tion de­spite hav­ing the re­quired qual­i­fi­ca­tions.

At­tor­ney for the fam­i­lies of the Paria div­ing tragedy, Prakash Ra­mad­har, says the land­mark judg­ment of the Privy Coun­cil on Tues­day could nul­li­fy charges brought un­der the Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health Act (OS­HA). He is call­ing for an­swers on who was re­spon­si­ble for not lay­ing charges with­in the re­quired six-month pe­ri­od.

Par­lia­men­tar­i­ans of the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives yes­ter­day desk-thumped their con­grat­u­la­tions to T&T "Javelin King" Keshorn Wal­cott and track and field sprint­er Jereem "The Dream" Richards af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar praised their re­cent gold and sil­ver sport­ing achieve­ments.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar told the Low­er House of Par­lia­ment to­day that no of­fi­cial up­grades have been car­ried out at the Prime Min­is­ter’s res­i­dence.