With the Gen­er­al Elec­tion just three weeks away, po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Derek Ram­samooj has dubbed this sea­son as the most his­toric, with 17 po­lit­i­cal par­ties and 161 can­di­dates rac­ing to the fin­ish line.

The An­ju­man Sun­nat-ul-Ja­maat As­so­ci­a­tion (AS­JA) is dis­tanc­ing it­self from po­lit­i­cal com­ments made by some Imams, say­ing those views should be clear­ly pre­sent­ed as per­son­al opin­ions, not of­fi­cial po­si­tions.

The Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (Cepep) is once again re­ject­ing claims that its work­ers are be­ing pres­sured in­to at­tend­ing po­lit­i­cal events.

A man and his nephew have ap­peared in court, on sep­a­rate days, charged with the mur­der of Joanne Estick, whose head was sev­ered and found in a bag at the side of the road in Siparia.

The two Moru­ga Sec­ondary School stu­dents seen in a vi­ral video at­tack­ing an­oth­er stu­dent as she was be­ing shield­ed by a teacher have been sus­pend­ed.

The Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP) at Gold­en Grove Road, Pi­ar­co, was locked down yes­ter­day, as se­cu­ri­ty search­es con­tin­ued at all prison fa­cil­i­ties fol­low­ing an out­break of vi­o­lence on Sat­ur­day which left one in­mate dead and sev­er­al oth­ers wound­ed.

A se­nior Min­istry of Health of­fi­cial has con­firmed that a Venezue­lan mi­grant is be­lieved to be the pri­ma­ry source of a clus­ter of malar­ia cas­es in Trinidad, which has now spread to eight peo­ple.

The moth­er of a men­tal­ly ill man who was shot dead af­ter se­vere­ly wound­ing a neigh­bour at Beetham Gar­dens on Sun­day night, re­mained un­cer­tain yes­ter­day about what had trig­gered the at­tack.

A Mara­bel­la man is now dead af­ter gun­men opened fire on him on Sun­day night while he was lim­ing at the home of a neigh­bour.

Six mem­bers of a Pe­nal fam­i­ly are now home­less af­ter a fire de­stroyed their home on Sun­day night.

U.S. stocks end­ed an­oth­er tu­mul­tuous day low­er as mar­kets reel from Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s lat­est threats to crank his tar­iffs high­er.

Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has con­firmed that San­dals Re­sorts In­ter­na­tion­al may once again be con­sid­er­ing To­ba­go for a fu­ture re­sort de­vel­op­ment. The de­ci­sion fol­lowed a meet­ing with San­dals Ex­ec­u­tive Chair­man Adam Stew­art and To­ba­go stake­hold­ers, where par­ties agreed to restart dis­cus­sions from a “clean slate.”