When T&T raised its own flag for the first time in 1962, Nicky “Un­cle Nicky” Greaves was al­ready 38 years old—a man who had scrubbed wood­en floors for a pen­ny, rid­den tram­cars for a cent, and lived in an era when doors did not need to be locked.

A gun­man was killed and a doc­tor wound­ed dur­ing a failed am­bush and rob­bery in Champs Fleurs ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing, when an off-du­ty prison of­fi­cer in­ter­vened, po­lice said.

PNM po­lit­i­cal leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les says the Op­po­si­tion is pre­pared to work with the Gov­ern­ment in the fight against crime, stress­ing that the is­sue de­mands uni­ty across po­lit­i­cal lines.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath has as­sured that all school re­pairs will be com­plet­ed and book grants dis­trib­uted in time for the start of the new school term on Sep­tem­ber 8.

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo and Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar have called on cit­i­zens to re­flect on the val­ues of re­silience, cre­ativ­i­ty, and shared re­spon­si­bil­i­ty as T&T cel­e­brates its 63rd In­de­pen­dence an­niver­sary.

Venezue­lan Am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go Al­varo Sanchez Cordero is con­fi­dent that any move against Venezuela by the Unit­ed States will fail, just as pre­vi­ous at­tempts have over the decades.

BEI­JING, Chi­na—While dis­ap­point­ment lingers in Port-of-Spain, where the In­de­pen­dence Day pa­rade was can­celled this year, a very dif­fer­ent scene un­fold­ed thou­sands of miles away in Bei­jing.

Be­tween 2020 and Au­gust this year, 55 Venezue­lan na­tion­als were mur­dered in Trinidad, ten of them women.

A Diego Mar­tin man was chased and shot while lim­ing near a bar on Rich Plain Road ear­ly on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

Po­lice are try­ing to es­tab­lish the de­tails of a shoot­ing in Champs Fleurs that led to the death of a Bel­mont man and the wound­ing of a woman ear­ly on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

Two peo­ple lost their lives in the ear­ly hours of Sat­ur­day morn­ing fol­low­ing a trag­ic road traf­fic ac­ci­dent in Ch­agua­nas.

An an­gry mob set fire to a lo­cal par­lia­ment build­ing in an In­done­sian provin­cial cap­i­tal, leav­ing at least three peo­ple dead and five oth­ers hos­pi­talised, of­fi­cials said.