South Ko­re­an of­fi­cials said Mon­day they will con­duct safe­ty in­spec­tions of all Boe­ing 737-800 air­craft op­er­at­ed by the coun­try’s air­lines, as they strug­gle to de­ter­mine what caused a plane crash that killed 179 peo­ple a day ear­li­er.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Deputy Chief Sec­re­tary Faith Breb­nor says the gov­ern­ment wait­ed too long to de­clare a state of emer­gency, as mur­ders in Trinidad and To­ba­go have reached record lev­els.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease, the state of emer­gency has been de­clared due to “height­ened crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty which en­dan­gers pub­lic safe­ty.”

New Year cel­e­bra­tions have been put on hold for a La Hor­quet­ta fam­i­ly now mourn­ing the loss of one of their rel­a­tives af­ter a car crash in Ari­ma on Sat­ur­day night.  So in­tense was the crash that a tree, which the car ran in­to was up­root­ed from its spot.

Af­ter an ex­haust­ing yet spir­it­ed 31 hours of play­ing melodies on the steel pan, Guin­ness World Record hope­ful Joshua Re­grel­lo spent yes­ter­day morn­ing at church. Asked about his im­me­di­ate plans fol­low­ing his marathon ses­sion at WACK 90.1 FM stu­dio on Cof­fee Street, San Fer­nan­do, on Sat­ur­day, Re­grel­lo ad­mit­ted he had not thought that far ahead.

A day af­ter the mur­der of 34-year-old Trevor Williams out­side the Besson Street Po­lice Sta­tion, crim­i­nol­o­gist Dr Randy Seep­er­sad is ad­vis­ing Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley that his re­cent ap­peal to the po­lice to make crim­i­nals “un­com­fort­able” through more ag­gres­sive tac­tics will be in­ef­fec­tive with­out the nec­es­sary re­sources.

The vic­tim of a hor­rif­ic chop­ping at­tack, Sa­ha­daye Ram­nath, 62, is ap­peal­ing for as­sis­tance to re­build her home or at least con­struct a one-room struc­ture where she can live.

A 13-year-old boy scared off a ban­dit when he screamed for help at his Cal­i­for­nia home ear­ly on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

The North West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NWRHA) is seek­ing to as­sure staff at St Ann’s Hos­pi­tal that their wa­ter is­sues are be­ing ad­dressed.

Port-of-Spain South MP, Kei­th Scot­land, says there would be a re­newed push from the au­thor­i­ties to ad­dress the prob­lem of home­less­ness in the cap­i­tal city from 2025. 

The search con­tin­ues for the body of Pe­te Phillip, a work­er with Well Ser­vices Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Ltd, who went miss­ing at sea on De­cem­ber 22 fol­low­ing a col­lapse of the com­pa­ny’s off­shore rig.

For 33 years and three months, Pul­bassia Nanan has been long­ing to see her daugh­ter Oma Nanan- who van­ished with­out a trace.