U.S. Am­bas­sador-des­ig­nate to the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go Can­dace A. Bond and her fam­i­ly ar­rived in Port of Spain on De­cem­ber 1. Am­bas­sador-des­ig­nate Bond will of­fi­cial­ly as­sume du­ties af­ter the pre­sen­ta­tion of her Let­ters of Cre­dence to Pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes.

Over 100 Cepep work­ers were despatched to Ma­yaro on Thurs­day to help clean up the slush and de­bris caused by four days of flood­ing.

In the first mat­ter - a Cou­va cou­ple was ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Ch­agua­nas Mag­is­trate to­day, charged with the mur­der of Syl­van Sookram, on No­vem­ber 1.

A fa­tal road traf­fic ac­ci­dent on Wednes­day claimed the life of one woman af­ter she was knocked down whilst at­tempt­ing to cross the road.

Af­ter see­ing many stu­dents strug­gling with Span­ish Orals (Con­ver­sa­tion­al Span­ish) in and out of the class­room, Span­ish teacher Faria Khan de­cid­ed to do some­thing about it.

A defama­tion law­suit brought by for­mer Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) To­ba­go Coun­cil po­lit­i­cal leader Tracey David­son-Ce­les­tine against To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has been struck out.

Po­lice are seek­ing the ur­gent as­sis­tance of the pub­lic in lo­cat­ing 14-year-old, Akiem Pil­grim of Com­paro Vil­lage, Man­zanil­la.

Po­lice are seek­ing the ur­gent as­sis­tance of the pub­lic in lo­cat­ing 32-year-old, Ab­dul­lah Ab­dul-Ma­jied of Bound­ary Road, Aranguez.

Health­care work­ers can ex­pect their cut of the $210 mil­lion ex-gra­tia pay­ment any day now, ac­cord­ing to Min­is­ter of Health, Ter­rence Deyals­ingh. Speak­ing to the me­dia at the Men­tal Health Stig­ma Re­duc­tion Cam­paign launch on Wednes­day at the Na­tion­al Li­brary and In­for­ma­tion Sys­tem Au­thor­i­ty, he said,

Ac­cord­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice rivers lev­els across Trinidad are well be­low their thresh­olds and no longer pose a threat to the sur­round­ing com­mu­ni­ties. Lo­cal­ized pond­ing/flood­ing still per­sists in some ar­eas; how­ev­er, a grad­ual de­crease in the wa­ter lev­els is ex­pect­ed.

Both the Gov­ern­ment and the TTPS are adamant there was no need to open the north­bound lane of the Uri­ah But­ler High­way on Tues­day.

Around 900 bar­rels of diesel fu­el were on board the ves­sel 'Lift­boat Daniela' which sank in the Gulf of Paria this morn­ing, the Min­istry of En­er­gy con­firmed.