Health in­spec­tors and lo­cal gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials are prepar­ing to roll out in­ten­si­fied spray­ing ef­forts af­ter the Min­istry of Health iden­ti­fied a clus­ter of malar­ia cas­es in South Trinidad. Malar­ia, a mos­qui­to-borne dis­ease caused by the Plas­mod­i­um par­a­site, is trans­mit­ted through the bite of in­fect­ed fe­male Anophe­les mos­qui­toes. While malar­ia is not en­dem­ic to T&T, the min­istry said cas­es are typ­i­cal­ly im­port­ed or in­tro­duced, with 153 record­ed be­tween 2015 and 2024, av­er­ag­ing 15 per year.

A 61-year-old dri­ver died af­ter crash­ing his car in­to a util­i­ty pole in South Oropouche on Tues­day night.

For­mer pub­lic util­i­ties min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les and the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) are rub­bish­ing claims by a Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress MP that con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed wa­ter from re­cent­ly dug wells in Moru­ga/Table­land could lead to can­cer.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed a fish­er­man af­ter seiz­ing 17.3 grammes of co­caine from his home in Erin on Wednes­day, which was al­leged­ly hid­den in a toi­let bowl.

The Spe­cial Vic­tims De­part­ment of the TTPS is in­ves­ti­gat­ing a re­port of rape at a sec­ondary school in cen­tral Trinidad on Valen­tine’s Day, which has now led to the 13-year-old vic­tim be­com­ing preg­nant.

Po­lice suc­cess­ful­ly ap­pre­hend­ed four men who car­ried out a home in­va­sion at Re­al Spring, Val­sayn yes­ter­day, and robbed a res­i­dent of cash and valu­ables be­fore leav­ing in a wait­ing car which they lat­er aban­doned af­ter the neigh­bour­hood watch group raised an alarm.

Prospec­tive UNC can­di­date for Barataria/San Juan Sad­dam Ho­sein ques­tioned what he claimed was a $7.1 mil­lion price tag made to Ernst & Young (EY) for con­sul­tan­cy ser­vices to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Rev­enue Au­thor­i­ty (TTRA).

The Caribbean Nat­ur­al Re­sources In­sti­tute (CA­NARI) is spear­head­ing a new ini­tia­tive in the Caribbean that aims to give com­mu­ni­ties on the front­lines of the cli­mate cri­sis a voice in de­ci­sions that shape their fu­ture.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is seek­ing the pub­lic’s ur­gent as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing 17-year-old Ric­k­eem Wal­cott.

Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad-based, Caribbean Court of Jus­tice, (CCJ) Jus­tice Adri­an Saun­ders says de­spite its chal­lenges the court, which was es­tab­lished to re­place the Lon­don-based Privy Coun­cil as the re­gion’s fi­nal and high­est court, “re­mains re­silient and op­ti­mistic”.

The Guayagua­yare Out­reach Cen­tre will be closed from noon on April 4th to fa­cil­i­tate rou­tine spray­ing by the In­sect Vec­tor Con­trol Di­vi­sion.

With the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress still to re­veal 15 re­main­ing can­di­dates, po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr Shane Mo­hammed is sug­gest­ing the par­ty's strat­e­gy of spo­rad­i­cal­ly an­nounc­ing its can­di­dates for the April 28 poll was pos­si­bly due to po­lit­i­cal leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar be­ing wary of in­cum­bent MPs dis­sent­ing be­fore the elec­tion.