For­mer pres­i­dent of the An­ju­man Sun­nat ul Ja­maat As­so­ci­a­tion (AS­JA), Dr Man­soor Ibrahim, has died.

The Ebo­la out­break in Con­go, the world’s fastest-grow­ing out­break of the dis­ease on record, has now spread to sev­en provinces in the African coun­try, lo­cal au­thor­i­ties said. And it’s show­ing no signs of slow­ing down.

Sev­er­al dozen pres­i­den­tial brief­ing doc­u­ments de­clas­si­fied Fri­day, the 25th an­niver­sary of the Sept. 11 at­tacks, de­tail in­tel­li­gence gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials had gath­ered about Osama bin Laden and al-Qai­da lead­ing up to the hi­jack­ings that killed near­ly 3,000 peo­ple and up­end­ed Amer­i­can na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty.

Amer­i­cans com­mem­o­rat­ed the 25th an­niver­sary of 9/11 on Fri­day, re­mem­ber­ing the shock, the dead and the sweep­ing con­se­quences of the al-Qai­da at­tacks on sym­bols of U.S. might and pros­per­i­ty.

An­oth­er man­i­cou has been blamed for pow­er prob­lems af­fect­ing com­mu­ni­ties in Trinidad, less than a month af­ter T&TEC at­trib­uted a se­ries of elec­tric­i­ty dis­rup­tions to an­i­mal in­ter­fer­ence.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is de­mand­ing that Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and the Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der ac­count for the re­sults of the State of Emer­gency as the lat­est SOE comes to an end.

Res­i­dents of Tigris Dri­ve, Eden Gar­dens, Bal­main, Cou­va, and the HDC hous­ing de­vel­op­ment at Cal­cut­ta Road No. 2 are hop­ing au­thor­i­ties will ad­dress long-stand­ing prob­lems with an over­grown va­cant lot.

The Ply­mouth/Black Rock elec­toral dis­trict is giv­ing en­tre­pre­neurs in the area a plat­form to sell their prod­ucts through a month­ly farm­ers’ mar­ket at Ad­ven­ture Mi­cro Mall, Ply­mouth.

A to­tal of 31 peo­ple held un­der pre­ven­tive de­ten­tion or­ders (PDOs) dur­ing the State of Emer­gency (SoE) were re­leased from three prison fa­cil­i­ties on Thurs­day, ac­cord­ing to se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cials.

For­mer Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Mar­vin Gon­za­les is call­ing on the Min­istry of Pub­lic Util­i­ties and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) to ex­plain what is caus­ing re­ports of elec­tric­i­ty dips and fluc­tu­a­tions across the coun­try.

For­mer State of Emer­gency (SoE) de­tainee Star Sab­ga broke down in tears af­ter learn­ing she was fi­nal­ly free from house ar­rest yes­ter­day, her at­tor­ney, Faris Al-Rawi, says.

Star Sab­ga has ex­pressed re­morse for re­fer­ring to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar as a “stink­ing c****e” dur­ing a con­ver­sa­tion with her niece, Genevieve Hadeed, in June.