In a blow to the Oil­field Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU), Shaf­fick Hy­atali, a ded­i­cat­ed and tire­less ad­vo­cate for work­ers’ rights, has suc­cumbed to the COVID-19 virus.

Stolen Pro­duc­tions Lim­it­ed (SPL) has dis­tanced it­self from claims by for­mer Miss Grand In­ter­na­tion­al T&T rep­re­sen­ta­tive Milei­dy Mat­er­a­no and has promised to give a state­ment on the mat­ter to­day.

For­mer To­ba­go of­fi­cials have ex­pressed their sup­port for Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo’s call for To­ba­go’s au­ton­o­my. How­ev­er, some of them are scep­ti­cal about the un­der­ly­ing mo­ti­va­tions be­hind this un­ex­pect­ed sup­port.

It was on­ly on Wednes­day that Rad­i­ca Smith thought she would start buy­ing Christ­mas gifts for her son Rishi, but tragedy jolt­ed her as he died hours af­ter gun­men at­tacked. Rishi, 33, a me­chan­ic of Dhe­li Road, Fyz­abad, died while un­der­go­ing treat­ment at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

Three months af­ter gun­men mur­dered his broth­er Kevon “Faces” An­drews, Key­on An­drews suf­fered a sim­i­lar fateon Thurs­day when a gun­man brazen­ly shot him in the street.An­drews, 30, of Or­chid Gar­dens, Pleas­antville, was walk­ing along Cha­co­nia Av­enue around 9 am with Ker­ry Richards.

Pe­ter Dedi­er, 37, of Up­per Sea View Hill, was shot sev­er­al times around 11.25 pm. Po­lice on mo­bile pa­trol re­ceived re­ports of gun­fire in the Care­nage area and up­on check­ing they found the un­em­ployed man ly­ing on the road in front his house.

A Form Four stu­dent of the El Do­ra­do East Sec­ondary School, was stabbed while de­fend­ing his friend against an at­tack from stu­dents from an­oth­er school on Wednes­day. Up to yes­ter­day the school­boy re­mained hos­pi­talised in a sta­ble con­di­tion.

Two men were sen­tenced to two years hard labour and an­oth­er de­nied bail yes­ter­day af­ter ap­pear­ing be­fore a San­gre Grande Mag­is­trate, charged with store break­ing and lar­ce­ny.

The Bankers’ As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (BATT) has wel­comed Gayle Pa­zos as Pres­i­dent. She will serve in this ca­pac­i­ty for the next two years.

The West In­dies Play­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (WIPA) has con­grat­u­lat­ed Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Vice Pres­i­dent Az­im Bas­sarath and for­mer West In­dies crick­eter Samuel Badree on re­ceiv­ing the Hum­ming­bird Medal, Gold at the 2023 Na­tion­al Awards.

Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) has con­firmed sev­er­al gal­vanised sheets on a sec­tion of Hangars 09 and 10 at its Pi­ar­co base were dis­placed due to high winds as­so­ci­at­ed with the ear­ly af­ter­noon thun­der­storms.

A team of lo­cal en­ter­tain­ers and in­flu­encers are tak­ing a stance against crime with the launch of a cam­paign called UNIT­TY.