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

Two firearms and quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion were seized by of­fi­cers of the In­ter-Agency Task Force, dur­ing an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions in the Port-of-Spain and North East­ern Di­vi­sions.

The Guyana Civ­il Avi­a­tion Au­thor­i­ty (GCAA) is in­ves­ti­gat­ing whether a po­ten­tial­ly ma­jor in­ci­dent in­volv­ing a Trinidad-based Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) 737 MAX 8 pas­sen­ger jet 737 MAX 8 was taxi­ing and a do­mes­tic air­line was avert­ed Mon­day night at the Ched­di Ja­gan In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port (CJIA) as a re­sult of an al­leged run­way in­cur­sion.

Val Kilmer, the brood­ing, ver­sa­tile ac­tor who played fan favourite Ice­man in “Top Gun,” donned a vo­lu­mi­nous cape as Bat­man in “Bat­man For­ev­er” and por­trayed Jim Mor­ri­son in “The Doors,” has died. He was 65.

For­mer Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency (SSA) di­rec­tor re­tired ma­jor Roger Best is throw­ing his sup­port be­hind the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress in the up­com­ing elec­tion.

Po­lice said they re­ceived a re­port that a man was swim­ming at the beach when he got in­to dif­fi­cul­ty while bathing and went un­der­wa­ter.

Six peo­ple head­ing out from a riv­er lime at Cau­ra on Mon­day were ar­rest­ed for drunk dri­ving while an­oth­er 10 re­ceived fixed penal­ty no­tices.

Sev­er­al res­i­dents in the Princes Town con­stituen­cy yes­ter­day wel­comed the re­moval of Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress in­cum­bent MP Bar­ry Padarath who had been their rep­re­sen­ta­tive for the last ten years.

The Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance has ac­cused the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress of “po­lit­i­cal pla­gia­rism dis­guised as pol­i­cy.”

Prospec­tive Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) can­di­date for Tu­na­puna Roger Alexan­der has re­vealed that he and his par­ty have al­ready dis­cussed plans to ad­dress the crime sit­u­a­tion af­fect­ing the area and the coun­try as a whole. 

The An­ju­man Sun­nat ul Ja­maat As­so­ci­a­tion (AS­JA) has moved to dis­tance it­self from claims by Imam Kaz­im Ali that Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young’s in­ter­ac­tions with fe­male mem­bers of the Is­lam­ic faith on Mon­day dur­ing the Eid cel­e­bra­tions in San Fer­nan­do, were un­eth­i­cal and dis­re­spect­ful.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Point Fortin prospec­tive can­di­date Ernesto Ke­sar is promis­ing to cre­ate job op­por­tu­ni­ties, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the oil­field sec­tor, un­der a Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar-led gov­ern­ment.