On day one of the Com­mis­sion of En­quiry in­to the deaths of four divers at Paria Fu­el Trad­ing’s off­shore fa­cil­i­ty in Pointe-a-Pierre on Feb­ru­ary 25, chill­ing in­for­ma­tion re­gard­ing their or­deal has al­ready been dis­closed.

Res­i­dents of Mamoral, Bras­so, Flana­gin Town and Tabaquite say they are at risk of be­ing cut off from oth­er com­mu­ni­ties un­less ur­gent ac­tion is un­der­tak­en to fix a land­slip at the Mamoral Cross­ing on the Ca­paro Val­ley Bras­so Road.

Tunisia held Eu­ro­pean Cham­pi­onship semi­fi­nal­ist Den­mark to a 0-0 draw Tues­day, three hours af­ter Sau­di Ara­bia beat Ar­genti­na in a shock­ing up­set.

One man was killed and an­oth­er was fight­ing for his life at hos­pi­tal last night, fol­low­ing a shoot­ing at Sagan Dri­ve, Champs Fleurs, yes­ter­day.

The fol­low­ing is the bul­letin is­sued by the Met Ser­vice to 10:00 am, to­day, cov­er­ing the pe­ri­od: this af­ter­noon and tonight…

There were no new deaths from COVID-19 in To­ba­go last week—and the is­land’s death toll from the dis­ease re­mains at 287, as at Sat­ur­day, No­vem­ber 19.

High Court Judge and Chair­man of the Me­di­a­tion Board of Trinidad and To­ba­go, the Ho­n­ourable Madame Jus­tice Lisa Ram­sumair-Hinds, has re­it­er­at­ed her sup­port for restora­tive jus­tice prac­tices, say­ing they are one of the most suit­able prac­tices which al­lows vic­tims a voice”.

Sau­di Ara­bia scored one of the biggest World Cup up­sets ever by beat­ing Li­onel Mes­si’s Ar­genti­na 2-1 on Tues­day.

The Gov­ern­ment of Cana­da has an­nounced a $15 mil­lion Cana­di­an dol­lar con­tri­bu­tion (equiv­a­lent to US$ 11.2 mil­lion) to­wards a Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO) ini­tia­tive to in­crease vac­cine pro­duc­tion ca­pac­i­ties in Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean.

Christo­pher Boodram, the lone sur­vivor of the trag­ic in­ci­dent at Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny on Feb­ru­ary 25, will give ev­i­dence be­fore the Com­mis­sion of En­quiry (CoE) in­to the LM­CS/Paria Div­ing Tragedy to­day.

Can­di­date for the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) po­lit­i­cal leader Karen Nunez-Tesheira and two mem­bers of her slate in the par­ty’s up­com­ing in­ter­nal elec­tions will learn the out­come of their bid to post­pone the three-day elec­tion process on Wednes­day.

“Come al­lyuh! We have to go. All ah we in this to­geth­er.”
This was one of the last pleas LM­CS div­er Christo­pher Boodram made to his col­leagues as he tried to en­cour­age them to climb out of the 30-inch di­am­e­ter Sealine No. 36, which they got sucked in­to dur­ing an ac­ci­dent at Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny’s Pointe-a-Pierre fa­cil­i­ty on Feb­ru­ary 25.
But on­ly Boodram es­caped the trag­ic or­deal at the off­shore fa­cil­i­ty that day.