Com­ing off a dead­ly year of dengue fever out­breaks, Min­is­ter of Health Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe has as­sured the pub­lic that all chem­i­cals, equip­ment and ma­chin­ery re­quired for mos­qui­to erad­i­ca­tion are avail­able.

A Car­ni­val con­sul­ta­tion in Scar­bor­ough on Thurs­day night brought a clear mes­sage that To­ba­go’s Oc­to­ber Car­ni­val needs bet­ter plan­ning, stronger poli­cies, and ear­li­er ex­e­cu­tion.

The car parts pro­pri­etor was iden­ti­fied as Mario Maraj, 37, of Rod­ney Road, Or­ange­field Road, Cara­pichaima, while the sec­ond de­ceased, be­lieved to be one of the sus­pects, re­mained uniden­ti­fied up to yes­ter­day.

A 22-year-old man from Pe­nal will spend the next nine years in prison af­ter ad­mit­ting to stab­bing a neigh­bour to death in an al­ter­ca­tion in 2023. 

Hours af­ter be­ing freed of mur­der­ing two men due to de­lays in pros­e­cut­ing his case, a man from Ari­ma was ar­rest­ed and charged with the crime once again.

A 25-year-old man is be­ing treat­ed at the hos­pi­tal af­ter he was shot while rid­ing his bi­cy­cle near a veg­etable stall in Rio Claro on Thurs­day night.

A Trinida­di­an na­tion­al is be­ing sought by the Roy­al Vir­gin Is­lands Po­lice Force (RVIPF) in con­nec­tion with a re­cent mur­der in the ter­ri­to­ry.

A 22-year-old po­lice con­sta­ble who was in­jured af­ter the po­lice ve­hi­cle he was in crashed in­to an­oth­er ve­hi­cle last year is su­ing the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al.

The Fraud Squad Unit of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) says there has been a sharp rise in fraud-re­lat­ed of­fences tar­get­ing cit­i­zens’ fi­nan­cial ac­counts. As such, it has ad­vised mem­bers of the pub­lic to im­me­di­ate­ly delete and avoid click­ing on links re­ceived via email or text mes­sages.

Pres­i­dent of the TTPS So­cial Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion act­ing ASP Gideon Dick­son says that his par­ty has of­fered qual­i­ty rep­re­sen­ta­tion to its mem­ber­ship dur­ing their two terms in of­fice and is con­fi­dent that they would con­tin­ue to seek the best in­ter­ests of po­lice of­fi­cers if re-elect­ed af­ter their June 30 elec­tions.

Class­es have re­sumed at Ch­agua­nas North Sec­ondary School fol­low­ing a sew­er-re­lat­ed is­sue that forced stu­dents back in­to on­line learn­ing last week.

Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has an­nounced the ap­point­ment of Ros­ton Chase as West In­dies Test Cap­tain for the up­com­ing home se­ries ver­sus Aus­tralia in June, with Jomel War­ri­can named as Vice-Cap­tain.