One of the main sus­pects held in con­nec­tion with this morn­ing's quadru­ple mur­der in Las Cuevas of re­put­ed drug and gun smug­gler, Vaughn 'Sand­man' Mieres, his wife, Ali­ka "Let­ty" De­here and two oth­ers, has been iden­ti­fied as one of Mieres' key as­so­ciates.

Melis­sa Har­ry­lal, our cur­rent Miss In­dia Trinidad and To­ba­go, is a 21-year-old uni­ver­si­ty stu­dent who is cur­rent­ly pur­su­ing her BSc in Man­age­ment Stud­ies. She is a well-round­ed, out­go­ing and fun­ny per­son from the small, beau­ti­ful vil­lage of Pi­paro. Melis­sa is very pas­sion­ate about danc­ing, an­i­mals and the en­vi­ron­ment. She is an ad­vo­cate for abused women and chil­dren and cur­rent­ly works with a Non-prof­it or­gan­i­sa­tion to help bring aware­ness to and help vic­tims of abuse. Melis­sa hopes that one day, vic­tims of abuse won't be stig­ma­tised and that they will be strong and feel safe enough to speak out against their abusers. As Melis­sa con­tin­ues her reign as Miss In­dia TT, we got to learn a lit­tle more about her. Check out her WE Mag in­ter­view:

Yan­nick Robert­son scored six goals to lead hosts T&T to their first win in three match­es in the Un­der-17 Boys’ Di­vi­sion of the 2019 Pan Amer­i­can Youth Wa­ter Po­lo Cham­pi­onships at the Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va, on Sun­day.

Princes Town is a com­mu­ni­ty named af­ter roy­al­ty and steeped in his­to­ry so rich that leg­ends have been born out of it. The Great Or­isha King Pa­pa Neez­er and the feared spir­i­tu­al heal­er and sor­cer­ess Moth­er Corn­husk fre­quent­ed this lit­tle town which has grown from be­ing a non­de­script vil­lage to be­ing one of the fastest-grow­ing towns in south Trinidad.

It may cause a raised eye­brow at first men­tion, but one woman be­lieves it’s sim­ple log­ic and she might not be alone in her con­vic­tion af­ter all, as on­go­ing re­search by sci­en­tists glob­al­ly sug­gests breast­feed­ing has more pow­er than is re­alised.

As the 57th an­niver­sary of In­de­pen­dence ap­proach­es, the charges laid against a sit­ting min­is­ter have demon­strat­ed that there is need for clear stan­dards that are agreed by all, the gov­erned and the gov­ern­ing and that no one is above the law.