SWM­COL says the fire which com­menced at the Beetham land­fill last evening is now ex­tin­guished.

Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rence Deyals­ingh is at­tend­ing the High-Lev­el Week of the 78th Ses­sion of the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly.

One of two men charged joint­ly with Kid­nap­ping and False im­pris­on­ment was re­fused bail while his ac­com­plice was grant­ed bail in the sum of $350,000 with sure­ty and oth­er con­di­tions.

Protest fires burned in sev­er­al parts of Trinidad as res­i­dents con­tin­ue to clam­our for wa­ter.

Ukrain­ian Pres­i­dent Volodymyr Ze­len­skyy said Tues­day that Rus­sia is “weaponiz­ing” every­thing from food and en­er­gy to ab­duct­ed chil­dren in its war against Ukraine — and he warned world lead­ers that the same could hap­pen to them.

The Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al of the Or­gan­i­sa­tion of Amer­i­can States (OAS), Luis Al­ma­gro, has crit­i­cised Venezuela’s po­si­tion re­gard­ing Guyana’s on go­ing oil auc­tion.

Ma­yaro MP Rush­ton Paray has made an ur­gent call for WASA to ad­dress what he called the con­stituen­cy’s lin­ger­ing wa­ter dis­tri­b­u­tion is­sues.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Sol­id Waste Man­age­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (SWM­COL) is ad­vis­ing the pub­lic that at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 8:45 pm last evening, SWM­COL’s Emer­gency Man­age­ment Team (EMT) was alert­ed about a fire at the south-west­ern end of the Beetham land­fill.

The fol­low­ing is the bul­letin is­sued by the Met Ser­vice to 06:00 am, to­day, cov­er­ing the pe­ri­od: to­day un­til mid­night…

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley joined world lead­ers at the 78th Ses­sion of the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly in New York yes­ter­day.

With Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert set to de­liv­er the 2024 Bud­get in less than a month, there are al­ready con­cerns about ad­just­ments to fu­el prices. Some stake­hold­ers are warn­ing that an in­crease could have a domi­no ef­fect on sev­er­al in­dus­tries.

The Su­per­mar­kets As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (SATT) has rec­om­mend­ed that plans to sup­port the crime-fight­ing ef­forts of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), in­clud­ing mak­ing firearms users’ li­cences (FUL) avail­able to those who qual­i­fy, be in­clud­ed in the 2024 Bud­get