Be­fore dawn broke over Span­ish Town on Mon­day, the qui­et hum of en­gines and soft voic­es filled the court­yard of the lo­cal mosque. At 4.30 am, mem­bers of the Con­cerned Mus­lims of Trinidad and To­ba­go (CMTT) set out on their jour­ney across Ja­maica — a mis­sion of mer­cy to bring re­lief to fam­i­lies dev­as­tat­ed by the re­cent hur­ri­cane.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) has al­ready shipped ap­prox­i­mate­ly US$5 mil­lion in sup­plies to Ja­maica to as­sist the coun­try in its re­cov­ery fol­low­ing Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa.

A Williamsville fam­i­ly of ten, in­clud­ing three chil­dren, is fac­ing a bleak Christ­mas af­ter their home was gut­ted by fire yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les says An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Prime Min­is­ter Gas­ton Browne’s sug­ges­tion that T&T may be in breach of the Treaty of Ch­aguara­mas should not be dis­missed.

The Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) says it is ready for the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tion, which is ex­pect­ed to be called soon.

Ten­sions flared out­side the Works Cred­it Union of­fice in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day as scores of frus­trat­ed mem­bers stood in protest, de­mand­ing trans­paren­cy and an ur­gent Spe­cial Gen­er­al Meet­ing (SGM) to ad­dress what they de­scribe as “se­ri­ous gov­er­nance breach­es”.

Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­al Dr Everold Ho­sein com­plet­ed his 40th con­sec­u­tive New York City Marathon this past Sun­day. He is 80 years old, and this marks his ninth marathon since a heart at­tack nine years ago. Ho­sein is a Dis­tin­guished Schol­ar at City Uni­ver­si­ty of New York/School of Pub­lic Health.

A man from Point Fortin with schiz­o­phre­nia has been freed of mur­der­ing his step­fa­ther af­ter spend­ing al­most 19 years on re­mand. 

With the four-year an­niver­sary of a ma­jor div­ing tragedy at Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny’s Pointe-a-Pierre fa­cil­i­ty ap­proach­ing, the fam­i­lies of three of the four vic­tims and the lone sur­vivor, Christo­pher Boodram, ap­pear no clos­er to re­ceiv­ing com­pen­sa­tion. 

Grena­da's Gov­ern­ment has not yet de­cid­ed if it will al­low a US radar sys­tem at the Mau­rice Bish­op In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port (MBIA), since tech­ni­cal as­sess­ment is still on­go­ing.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has in­sist­ed that Trinidad and To­ba­go has no plans to leave Cari­com, de­spite her Gov­ern­ment’s fo­cus on strength­en­ing ties with coun­tries out­side the re­gion.

A 39-year-old man from Moru­ga re­mains in crit­i­cal con­di­tion af­ter be­ing shot mul­ti­ple times in front of his home yes­ter­day morn­ing.