Po­lice are still try­ing to de­ter­mine the mo­tive be­hind a bar shoot­ing in Pe­nal yes­ter­day that left 23-year-old Isi­ah John dead, and an­oth­er man in­jured.

Econ­o­mist Dr Vaalmik­ki Ar­joon says while we are fac­ing low­er ex­port sales and forex earn­ings due to the new tar­iff rate, T&T may main­tain rel­a­tive­ly stronger ac­cess to the US mar­ket com­pared to oth­er coun­tries now fac­ing high­er im­port du­ties, de­spite the new 15 per cent tar­iff set to take ef­fect on Thurs­day.

A coali­tion of child­hood jus­tice or­gan­i­sa­tions and child rights ad­vo­cates has called for sweep­ing re­forms in child pro­tec­tion fol­low­ing the ar­rest and crim­i­nal charges against well-known trau­ma­tol­o­gist and for­mer Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty di­rec­tor, Hanif Ben­jamin.

More than 250 pigs will have to be culled and buried fol­low­ing T&T’s first con­firmed case this year of Porcine Re­pro­duc­tive and Res­pi­ra­to­ry Syn­drome (PRRS), the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture has con­firmed.

Promi­nent voic­es in the cul­tur­al com­mu­ni­ty are call­ing for a posthu­mous na­tion­al award to ho­n­our In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor and Na­tion­al Coun­cil of In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC) pres­i­dent De­oroop Teemal, who died in his sleep around 1 am yes­ter­day. He was 68.

The Latin Amer­i­can and Caribbean (LAC) re­gion record­ed the fastest growth in in­ter­na­tion­al air traf­fic world­wide in June, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est Air Pas­sen­ger Mar­ket Analy­sis from the In­ter­na­tion­al Air Trans­port As­so­ci­a­tion (IA­TA).

In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor An­tho­ny Vieira says on­line ha­rass­ment and un­fair at­tacks on the In­de­pen­dent bench took a toll on the health of fel­low In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor and Na­tion­al Coun­cil of In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC) pres­i­dent De­oroop Teemal, who died at his St Au­gus­tine home ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Dou­ble Olympic medal­list and for­mer gov­ern­ment min­is­ter Wen­dell Mot­t­ley will re­ceive Yale Uni­ver­si­ty’s high­est ho­n­our, the George HW Bush ’48 Life­time of Lead­er­ship Award.

Through foot­steps, drum­beats, song, and dance, the spir­it of the Can­boulay Ri­ots came alive in Princes Town and San Fer­nan­do be­fore dawn yes­ter­day dur­ing the Flam­beau De Can­boulay Fes­ti­val.

A Princes Town com­mu­ni­ty is mourn­ing the death of a 67-year-old grand­fa­ther af­ter a blaze de­stroyed two homes and a wood­work fac­to­ry on Sat­ur­day night, reignit­ing calls for a func­tion­ing fire sta­tion in the dis­trict.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the death of a 31-year-old Mara­bel­la busi­ness­man who was found dead in his car ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.

One man was killed and an­oth­er in­jured in a brazen day­light shoot­ing at a bar in Pe­nal yes­ter­day.