Three weeks af­ter she was shot in the head while on her way home, Dr Dorothy Williams-Chan­dler has died.

This was how a fe­male rel­a­tive of two-year-old Je­mi Williams yes­ter­day de­scribed his death, fol­low­ing a ve­hic­u­lar ac­ci­dent along the East­ern Main Road (EMR) in St Joseph on Thurs­day night.

An “unau­tho­rised” me­dia re­lease is said to be the source of pub­lic con­fu­sion over Re­pub­lic Day cel­e­bra­tions, which prompt­ed the Prime Min­is­ter to quick­ly ad­dress the mat­ter, de­clar­ing “noth­ing is can­celled.”

The Fi­nance Min­is­ter is re­main­ing tight-lipped on whether or not fu­el prices will be in­creased.

With Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo an­nounc­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s plan to be­gin the promised pub­lic sec­tor wage ne­go­ti­a­tions at ten per cent in fis­cal 2026, some pub­lic ser­vants are rel­ish­ing the prospect of hav­ing more mon­ey to cov­er their ex­pens­es.

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.