Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen says the “blame UNC” ex­cuse no longer holds up when it comes to the state of the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP).

With plac­ards in hand and tears in their eyes, the daugh­ters, rel­a­tives and friends of Theodore “Beast” Gun­pat walked through Or­toire Vil­lage on Mon­day night, plead­ing for an­swers near­ly two weeks af­ter the 67-year-old Ma­yaro man van­ished with­out a trace.

With La Ro­main cou­ple Samuel Mon­tano and Za­hee­da Mo­hammed still miss­ing, a search and res­cue group is ap­peal­ing to fish­er­men op­er­at­ing in the Gulf of Paria to re­main vig­i­lant.

For­mer jour­nal­ist, com­mu­ni­ca­tions spe­cial­ist and men­tal health ad­vo­cate Char­lene Stu­art was giv­en her fi­nal rites yes­ter­day in a heart­felt, tear­ful fu­ner­al ser­vice at the Love and Faith Church World Out­reach Min­istries in Sophia, Guyana.

Two of To­ba­go’s po­lit­i­cal par­ties say they are ac­tive­ly prepar­ing for the next To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tions, as the is­land’s po­lit­i­cal land­scape con­tin­ues to shift fol­low­ing the his­toric 2021 out­come and its af­ter­math.

Al­most a week af­ter two men were ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the mur­der of 22-year-old Trevorn Walk­er, po­lice have re­leased one sus­pect and ex­pect to lay charges against the oth­er.

As gun­shots rang out on Mon­day night, a Gas­par­il­lo woman hud­dled in­side her home with her two chil­dren. Min­utes lat­er, she heard that her men­tal­ly chal­lenged broth­er had been mur­dered in his room.

For­mer jour­nal­ist, com­mu­ni­ca­tions spe­cial­ist, and men­tal health ad­vo­cate Char­lene Stu­art was giv­en her fi­nal rites on Tues­day in a heart­felt, tear­ful fu­ner­al ser­vice at the Love and Faith Church World Out­reach Min­istries in Sophia, Guyana.

Codde Cud­joe, 28, ap­peared in court on Mon­day charged with rob­bery with vi­o­lence. He was grant­ed bail in the sum of $250,000 with sure­ty.

The Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture has con­firmed that pork re­mains safe to eat fol­low­ing the de­tec­tion of Porcine Re­pro­duc­tive and Res­pi­ra­to­ry Syn­drome (PRRS) at a sin­gle pig farm in Trinidad.

The Po­lice Ser­vice is con­firm­ing the dis­cov­ery and seizure of a quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion and mil­i­tary-style cloth­ing dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise car­ried out in sev­er­al lo­ca­tions in Cen­tral Trinidad.

Four peo­ple have been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with an armed rob­bery at a busi­ness place lo­cat­ed along South Cen­tral Road in the vicin­i­ty of the Dun­lop Round­about, Point Fortin, which oc­curred at about 10:00 am on Mon­day.