Less than 24 hours af­ter ac­ti­vat­ing emer­gency re­sponse mech­a­nisms at the 14 re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions across T&T, the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port in­creased mon­i­tor­ing process­es and de­ployed emer­gency equip­ment in spe­cif­ic ar­eas as they braced for flood­ing and pos­si­ble evac­u­a­tion.

With mem­o­ries of last year’s floods still fresh on their minds, res­i­dents of Wood­land, Pe­nal, Debe, Biche and Ma­yaro spent yes­ter­day try­ing to se­cure their homes against the ex­pect­ed rough weath­er.

An Arou­ca man was killed on Fri­day night dur­ing what of­fi­cials have de­scribed as a drug-re­lat­ed rob­bery gone bad.

Iden­ti­fied as Ronald “Black­ie” Paul, the 34-year-old un­em­ployed man of L'Anse Mi­tan Road was re­port­ed­ly shot around 8 pm on Sep­tem­ber 20.

While the con­tract be­tween the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) and Chi­na Gezhou­ba Group In­ter­na­tion­al En­gi­neer­ing Co Ltd (CG­GC) to build 204 high-end hous­ing units at South Quay has been can­celled, the Drag­on still ris­es with a plan to trans­form part of Char­lotte Street, in Port-of-Spain, to a Chi­na­town.

A hur­ri­cane hunter air­craft has been sent to in­ves­ti­gate a trop­i­cal wave east of Trinidad and To­ba­go, and has found no fur­ther de­vel­op­ment to cat­e­gorise it as a Trop­i­cal De­pres­sion.

As videos of vi­cious school fights cir­cu­late, Sorop­ti­mist In­ter­na­tion­al of San Fer­nan­do held a peace march through the streets of San Fer­nan­do on Fri­day in ho­n­our of World Peace Day.

Meena Bhim felt blood drip­ping on her from the floor­boards above her head and when she in­ves­ti­gat­ed up­stairs she made a ghast­ly dis­cov­ery.

Guyana’s Op­po­si­tion par­ty is ques­tion­ing why Cari­com has not weighed in on the coun­try’s on­go­ing po­lit­i­cal cri­sis. 

Sev­en stu­dents, along with a teacher co­or­di­na­tor of the St Joseph’s Con­vent Port-of-Spain UN­ESCO Club, will be par­tic­i­pat­ing in the 20th In­ter­na­tion­al Mod­el UN­ESCO which is card­ed to take place from Oc­to­ber 2 to 5.

An 18-year-old To­ba­go man, charged with the mur­der of gy­ro sales­man Elias Dab­bourah has ap­peared in court and has been re­mand­ed in­to cus­tody.

Nine ri­fles, eight of which were unassem­bled and hid­den in­side speak­er box­es and 12 mag­a­zines were found and seized by po­lice of­fi­cers dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in Bel­mont on Thurs­day night.