Two po­lice of­fi­cers and a hunter are be­ing hailed for their brav­ery in find­ing two lost hik­ers in the North­ern Range on Sun­day evening.

An­oth­er brazen mur­der has claimed the life of a 39-year-old South Oropouche fa­ther, reignit­ing ur­gent calls for stronger ac­tion to com­bat crime, in­clud­ing the re­sump­tion of hang­ings.

A day af­ter ban­dits were caught on cam­era at­tempt­ing to rob a fam­i­ly at their Val­sayn Av­enue home, res­i­dents say that over­grown bush­es from near­by parcels of land pro­vide the ide­al es­cape and cov­er for ban­dits to stage home in­va­sions.

A group of fam­i­ly and friends, who claimed that they were de­fraud­ed by pop­u­lar so­cial me­dia in­flu­encer Is­rael “Markos” Mark, have ob­tained a de­fault judg­ment against him. 

The own­er of a pop­u­lar so­cial me­dia news page has been or­dered to pay over $400,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a pri­ma­ry school prin­ci­pal for defama­tion. 

The coun­try’s long-await­ed on­line ar­rival and de­par­ture Im­mi­gra­tion and Cus­toms form sys­tem of­fi­cial­ly be­came manda­to­ry yes­ter­day, mark­ing the end of the pa­per-based form.

Two ma­jor trade unions rep­re­sent­ing teach­ers and health­care work­ers say they are press­ing ahead with protest ac­tion as un­cer­tain­ty con­tin­ues over salary in­creas­es and out­stand­ing back­pay for thou­sands of pub­lic sec­tor em­ploy­ees.

As al­most 18,000 stu­dents pre­pare for the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) next week, Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath says mea­sures are in place to en­sure all can­di­dates sit the ex­am in a safe and sup­port­ive en­vi­ron­ment.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is call­ing on the sit­ting Prime Min­is­ter to clear­ly state the Gov­ern­ment’s po­si­tion on the use of Cuban med­ical per­son­nel in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Mo­roc­co was stun­ning­ly award­ed the Africa Cup of Na­tions ti­tle on Tues­day by ap­peals judges who over­turned Sene­gal’s vic­to­ry in a chaot­ic fi­nal in Jan­u­ary.

An Arou­ca man has plead­ed guilty af­ter be­ing charged with pos­ses­sion of drugs for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing, days af­ter po­lice found mar­i­jua­na, ec­sta­sy and mol­ly at his home.

Two po­lice of­fi­cers and a hunter are be­ing hailed for res­cu­ing two lost hik­ers in the North­ern Range on Sun­day evening.