A mas­sive fire broke out yes­ter­day at Ice Con­nec­tion Lim­it­ed, a sty­ro­foam man­u­fac­tur­ing plant in Pi­ar­co, send­ing thick black smoke across the Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way and caus­ing heavy traf­fic dis­rup­tions.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPSS­WA) is now free to set a new date for its ex­ec­u­tive elec­tions. 

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has again bro­ken his si­lence on is­sues per­tain­ing to his min­istry, ad­dress­ing the leave of two of­fi­cers of the De­fence Force.

Di­vali Na­gar 2025 is ex­pect­ed to cost $3.5 mil­lion, and the Na­tion­al Coun­cil of In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC) is ap­peal­ing for at least $1 mil­lion in State fund­ing to help cov­er ex­pens­es.

T&T pan­nist Joshua Re­grel­lo has re­ceived his Guin­ness World Record cer­tifi­cate for his marathon steel­pan per­for­mance last year. In a video post­ed to his Face­book page, he opened a brown box re­veal­ing the cer­tifi­cate.

The coun­cil of the Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion plans to es­tab­lish a com­mit­tee to ad­vise on an ap­pro­pri­ate mon­u­ment to re­place the now-re­moved Christo­pher Colum­bus stat­ue and re­name the square on In­de­pen­dence Square that bore his name.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar tripped on an un­even stage floor­ing on Wednes­day dur­ing the clos­ing cer­e­mo­ny of the Ja­va Crick­et Com­mu­ni­ty Pro­gram but es­caped in­jury.

A shoot­er opened fire with a ri­fle Wednes­day through the win­dows of a Catholic church in Min­neapo­lis and struck chil­dren cel­e­brat­ing Mass dur­ing the first week of school, killing two and wound­ing 17 peo­ple in an act of vi­o­lence the po­lice chief called “ab­solute­ly in­com­pre­hen­si­ble.”

Carib Brew­ery has an­nounced the sign­ing of West In­dies crick­eters Dwayne Bra­vo and Nicholas Pooran as brand am­bas­sadors for Carib Lager as the com­pa­ny marks its 75th an­niver­sary.

Min­is­ter of Fi­nance, Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo, has pre­sent­ed in­stru­ments of ap­point­ment to new mem­bers of the Board of Di­rec­tors of First Cit­i­zens Hold­ings Lim­it­ed.

Is­rael is on the brink of launch­ing an­oth­er ma­jor of­fen­sive, this time in famine-strick­en Gaza City.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is do­ing its part to en­sure the safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty of pa­trons at­tend­ing the Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) in T&T, even as the coun­try re­mains un­der a State of Emer­gency (SoE).