Just days af­ter two Venezue­lan mi­grants, in­clud­ing a six-year-old girl, drowned when an over­crowd­ed pirogue cap­sized in the Colum­bus Chan­nel, an­oth­er il­le­gal sea voy­age has end­ed in tragedy.

Two Trinidad and To­ba­go mar­itime ex­perts have been ap­point­ed to the Com­mis­sion of In­quiry (COI) es­tab­lished by Guyana Pres­i­dent Dr Ir­faan Ali to in­ves­ti­gate the cap­siz­ing and sink­ing of the MV Bari­ma on Ju­ly 18 while trav­el­ling from George­town to Port Kai­tu­ma, in what has be­come the coun­try’s dead­liest mar­itime dis­as­ter. Au­thor­i­ties have since re­cov­ered dozens of bod­ies while res­cue and re­cov­ery ef­forts con­tin­ue.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les and Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment deputy leader San­jiv Bood­hu will meet for­mer Na­tion­al Al­liance for Re­con­struc­tion (NAR) hostage Wen­dell Ever­s­ley to­day as he be­gins his an­nu­al walk from Ari­ma to the Red House, Port-of-Spain, in re­mem­brance of the 1990 at­tempt­ed coup.

The Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ) has not yet re­ceived a for­mal re­quest from Cari­com to pro­vide an ad­vi­so­ry opin­ion on the reap­point­ment of Cari­com Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett.

The MV Gold­en Car­ri­er is be­ing hailed as “one of the most su­pe­ri­or” car­go boats in Trinidad and To­ba­go his­to­ry.

For more than three decades, Ju­nior Bis­nath has ded­i­cat­ed his life to keep­ing chil­dren off the streets and on stilts.

A pair of Chi­nese na­tion­als have been ac­quit­ted of traf­fick­ing two Venezue­lan girls based on the fail­ure of the State to prove the ages of the al­leged vic­tims. 

Af­ter spend­ing al­most two decades in prison, five men have been freed of mur­der­ing a man, whose body has nev­er been found.

A se­cu­ri­ty com­pa­ny has lost its bid to sus­pend a lu­cra­tive con­tract award­ed to one of its ri­vals by the Es­tate Man­age­ment and Busi­ness Com­pa­ny Ltd (EM­BD). 

Pen­sion­ers Ber­nice James-Roach, 77, and her hus­band Hol­lis­ter Roach, 84, ex­pect­ed their Or­chid Gar­dens apart­ment in Pleas­antville to be a place where they could en­joy their re­tire­ment.

As To­ba­go pre­pares for an in­flux of vis­i­tors when the new ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port ter­mi­nal opens, all eyes are on the culi­nary and hos­pi­tal­i­ty sec­tors to el­e­vate their stan­dards. With the de­mands on the ser­vice providers ex­pect­ed to in­crease, the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) has iden­ti­fied cus­tomer ser­vice as cru­cial to en­sur­ing vis­i­tors have a pos­i­tive ex­pe­ri­ence.

One thou­sand and twen­ty-two pounds of plas­tic bot­tles, wrap­pers, glass bot­tles and oth­er forms of do­mes­tic garbage were pulled out from the man­grove for­est on the banks of the Cunu­pia Riv­er on Sat­ur­day.