From as ear­ly as 2 am yes­ter­day, peo­ple be­gan lin­ing up out­side the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA) in Port-of-Spain for free med­ical ser­vices pro­vid­ed by the US Navy hos­pi­tal ship, USNS Com­fort.

The Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) has threat­ened to take the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) to the In­dus­tri­al Court over what it de­scribes as a “clear and di­rect vi­o­la­tion” of the reg­is­tered col­lec­tive agree­ment gov­ern­ing pro­mo­tions and act­ing ap­point­ments.

The con­tro­ver­sial stat­ue of Christo­pher Colum­bus, a mon­u­ment which has stood in the cap­i­tal city since 1881, has now been re­moved.

Forty-sev­en-year-old Tara Lochans­ingh, who died sav­ing her grand­daugh­ter’s life, was re­mem­bered as a hero and an an­gel dur­ing her fu­ner­al ser­vice yes­ter­day.

A Laven­tille fam­i­ly, still reel­ing from the mur­der of an 11-year-old fam­i­ly mem­ber last year, saw their kitchen de­stroyed when a chen­nette tree fell on their home yes­ter­day morn­ing.

A Ca­roni man who with­drew $17,500 cash from the bank and placed it in his car, was robbed af­ter he stopped to pur­chase items at the side of the road on the way home.

A Pi­ar­co cou­ple was robbed of $60,000 in cash on Wednes­day, as they con­duct­ed roti sales out of their house in St He­le­na Vil­lage.

Mar­jorie Har­ry Orr died from blunt-force in­juries sus­tained in a crash that sent her car plung­ing in­to the Rich­mond Riv­er, To­ba­go last Sat­ur­day.

Venezuela’s Jus­tice Min­is­ter Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo has once again ver­bal­ly at­tacked T&T’s Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar in his lat­est al­le­ga­tions of at­tempts to desta­bilise Venezuela’s Gov­ern­ment.

De­spite it be­ing dead­line day for the US to im­pose its 15% rec­i­p­ro­cal tar­iff on a range of goods im­port­ed from Trinidad and To­ba­go, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar seeks to as­sure the na­tion that the Gov­ern­ment is ex­plor­ing three op­tions, one be­ing con­tin­ued di­a­logue with the Unit­ed States.

Crime was al­lowed to spi­ral out of con­trol in Trinidad and To­ba­go over the past decade, de­clared Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter and Cou­va South MP Bar­ry Padarath, as he de­fend­ed the Gov­ern­ment’s push for Stand Your Ground leg­is­la­tion.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is open to work­ing with the Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) to in­ves­ti­gate any cas­es of wrong­ful po­lice shoot­ings.