In a move that has left To­bag­o­ni­ans talk­ing, Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo sur­pris­ing­ly made a call for the au­ton­o­my To­ba­go has been clam­our­ing for, say­ing the time had come for it to be done once and for all.

A ma­jor drug traf­fick­ing bust has led to the ar­rest of one man and the seizure of US$1 mil­lion of hero­in and co­caine bound for the Unit­ed States.

Allen’s Fu­ner­al Home Lim­it­ed has tak­en over fu­ner­al arrange­ments for the four vic­tims of last week’s fa­tal shoot­ing at Heights of Gua­napo, Ari­ma.

The own­er of an adult sex toy busi­ness is chal­leng­ing the state’s seizure of her goods af­ter they were deemed “ob­scene and in­de­cent”.

A High Court judge has grant­ed leave to a woman to seek ju­di­cial re­view chal­leng­ing the re­fusal of the South West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) to re­lease the med­ical records of her de­ceased fa­ther.

Mount Irvine Bay Re­sort in To­ba­go has won the LUXlife 2023 Re­sorts & Re­treats Award at the 30th World Trav­el Awards (WTA) & The Amer­i­c­as Gala Cer­e­mo­ny 2023 held at San­dals, St. Lu­cia.

Is­land Fi­nance has an­nounced its par­tic­i­pa­tion in the an­nu­al In­ter­na­tion­al Coastal Clean-up Day which was held on Sep­tem­ber 16 at Ma­yaro beach. The aim of the cam­paign was to help clean up and pre­serve the ma­rine ecosys­tem by re­mov­ing plas­tic and oth­er waste ma­te­ri­als from the coast­line.

Two men have ap­peared be­fore an Ari­ma Mag­is­trate, charged with the mur­der of Clin­ton Changa, which oc­curred on Sep­tem­ber 14.

A teenag­er from D’abadie has ap­peared be­fore the Ari­ma Mag­is­trates’ 1st Court on 12 charges stem­ming out of a rob­bery which oc­curred on Au­gust 8.

Two of the four sus­pects who were joint­ly charged in con­nec­tion with the Sep­tem­ber 20th lar­ce­ny in­ci­dent in Man­zanil­la were sen­tenced yes­ter­day to 18 months hard labour.

Agents with the U.S. Drug En­force­ment Ad­min­is­tra­tion (DEA) of­fice at the U.S. Em­bassy as­sist­ed the Trinidad and To­ba­go Transna­tion­al Or­ga­nized Crime Unit (TOCU) in an in­ves­ti­ga­tion which cul­mi­nat­ed in the ar­rest of Shurlan Gup­py on Tues­day, who is charged with traf­fick­ing hero­in and co­caine val­ued at US$1 mil­lion to the Unit­ed States. He is charged in the Unit­ed States Dis­trict Court for the East­ern Dis­trict of Penn­syl­va­nia, and will be ex­tra­dit­ed to Penn­syl­va­nia to face charges. Dur­ing the ear­ly morn­ing ex­e­cu­tion of the ar­rest war­rant, agents found a firearm and one kilo­gram of co­caine in the sus­pect’s res­i­dence.

Thir­ty-three-year-old Si­mon Ma­habir was sen­tenced to two years hard labour for pos­ses­sion of a home­made shot­gun and pos­ses­sion of one round of 12-guage am­mu­ni­tion.