Three Is­raelis were shot and killed Sun­day at the bor­der cross­ing be­tween the West Bank and Jor­dan, Is­raeli of­fi­cials said, in what ap­peared to be an at­tack linked to the 11-month-old war in Gaza.

Cuban Pres­i­dent Miguel Di­az-Canel says the re­cent vis­it to the is­land by the speak­er of the Trinidad-To­ba­go House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, Bridgid An­nisette-George will mark a land­mark in bi­lat­er­al re­la­tions be­tween the two na­tions.

When Bal­ram Ram­saran re­ceived his two-acre plot of land in 2010 fol­low­ing the clo­sure of Ca­roni (1975) Ltd in Wa­ter­loo, he was over­joyed. Ram­saran, 63, had worked at Ca­roni for 26 years as a boil­er/op­er­a­tor. His joy soon turned to sor­row when he re­alised the land was un­der­de­vel­oped and lacked ir­ri­ga­tion.

In the first in­ci­dent, the vic­tim was iden­ti­fied as Josi­ah Reid, 25, of Sec­ond Cale­do­nia, Mor­vant. Qua­cy Em­manuel, 39, of Com­pre­hen­sive Road, Mal­ick, was the sec­ond to be killed af­ter pur­chas­ing mar­i­jua­na.

Fa­ther of one, An­drew Per­sadie, was de­scribed as a saint dur­ing his fu­ner­al ser­vice at the Es­per­ance Pres­by­ter­ian Church in San Fer­nan­do yes­ter­day.

Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Mar­vin Gon­za­les says T&T ur­gent­ly needs en­er­gy re­form. He was speak­ing at the launch of a 15kW So­lar PV sys­tem in Char­lot­teville on Fri­day.

“Turn to God!” That was the heart-wrench­ing ap­peal of res­i­dent Marisa Coop­er to the na­tion fol­low­ing the bru­tal mur­ders of 16-year-old Shenelle and her broth­er, Ke­ston Singh, 21, by a fel­low vil­lager in their New Grant, Princes Town, com­mu­ni­ty on Sep­tem­ber 4. Dressed in white, res­i­dents par­tic­i­pat­ed in a can­dle­light vig­il or­gan­ised by Coop­er from Naggee Road Junc­tion to the house where the sib­lings were mur­dered.

As the coun­try con­tin­ues to grap­ple with ris­ing crime, crim­i­nol­o­gists and a for­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al are say­ing that a State of Emer­gency (SoE) is not the an­swer.

The five Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ties (RHAs) have re­ceived over US$10 mil­lion in new state-of-the-art di­ag­nos­tic imag­ing equip­ment.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion is stat­ing cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly that there has been no re­duc­tion in the fi­nan­cial as­sis­tance pro­vid­ed an­nu­al­ly to thir­teen (13) reg­is­tered Pri­vate Spe­cial Schools.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the death of a for­eign na­tion­al aboard a ves­sel at Labid­co Port in La Brea yes­ter­day. 

This week, when they would nor­mal­ly be go­ing back to school, the Qudeh fam­i­ly’s chil­dren stum­bled with arm­fuls of rub­ble they col­lect­ed from a de­stroyed build­ing to sell for use in build­ing graves in the ceme­tery that is now their home in south­ern Gaza.