The Hunters’ Search and Res­cue Team and game war­dens res­cued 24 “mal­nour­ished” and “ex­treme­ly hun­gry” tor­tois­es in Gas­par­il­lo yes­ter­day. 

Yes­ter­day, Guardian Me­dia’s In­ves­ti­ga­tions Desk high­light­ed the in­creas­ing trends of do­mes­tic vi­o­lence cas­es and sex­u­al vi­o­lence cas­es against chil­dren. 

Sev­en-year-old Stephon Boodoo has nev­er set foot in­side a class­room. While oth­er chil­dren his age run, play, and learn, Boodoo can­not speak clear­ly or move freely. A grow­ing lump on his head, sus­pect­ed to be a tu­mour, casts a shad­ow over his al­ready chal­leng­ing life.

Eighty-four-year-old Siew Na­gas­sar had 17 chil­dren and lived a full life. But for the last two years, he car­ried a heavy sad­ness.

Min­utes af­ter vis­it­ing his daugh­ter at her War­renville home, a Fe­lic­i­ty fa­ther was knocked down while cross­ing the Uri­ah But­ler High­way.

While many peo­ple are prepar­ing for Christ­mas, a Bar­rack­pore fam­i­ly has been left home­less for the hol­i­days af­ter a fire on Sat­ur­day.

Sev­er­al small busi­ness own­ers in the cap­i­tal are call­ing on the Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion to of­fer shop­pers al­ter­na­tive park­ing arrange­ments dur­ing the Christ­mas sea­son.

A woman from Diego Mar­tin was ar­rest­ed by po­lice short­ly af­ter knock­ing down a man on Ari­api­ta Av­enue in Wood­brook and dri­ving away ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) Fraud Squad is ac­tive­ly in­ves­ti­gat­ing a se­ries of scam­ming ac­tiv­i­ties in­volv­ing the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Cred­it Union (TTP­SCU). 

Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Mar­vin Gon­za­les has ex­pressed op­ti­mism about the trans­for­ma­tion ef­forts at the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) as new CEO Kei­throy Hal­l­i­day of­fi­cial­ly as­sumed his po­si­tion on Sun­day.

Two po­lit­i­cal an­a­lysts be­lieve the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) has the po­ten­tial to make a strong im­pact on To­ba­go’s elec­torate in the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion once its strat­e­gy is sol­id.

There has been a cut­back in pro­duc­tion at the Point Lisas De­sali­na­tion Plant which is af­fect­ing near­ly 40 com­mu­ni­ties across the cen­tral and south­west Trinidad.