Fa­ther of five Kezie Blondell al­ways loved cars, mo­tor­cy­cles and rac­ing. Trag­i­cal­ly, less than a year af­ter he be­gan rid­ing, he lost his life af­ter his mo­tor­cy­cle crashed along the high­way in La Brea on Sun­day night. Thir­ty-four-year-old Blondell, a me­chan­ic and life­guard, was the on­ly bread­win­ner in his fam­i­ly.

It was an­oth­er dusty day for T&T yes­ter­day as a thick plume of Sa­ha­ran dust, an un­wel­come vis­i­tor from across the At­lantic, en­veloped the na­tion, prompt­ing the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) to is­sue a press re­lease warn­ing of “un­healthy” air qual­i­ty.

The San Juan Fire Sta­tion, which is one of the busiest and most cru­cial in T&T, has been shut down in­def­i­nite­ly af­ter a sec­tion of the ceil­ing col­lapsed and struck a fire of­fi­cer last week.

Al­most a year has passed since PC Shakala Charles re­cit­ed what he thought was his fi­nal prayer as he bled out on a street in east Port-of-Spain.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Health Rishad Seecher­an says the Gov­ern­ment will be rolling out sev­er­al ini­tia­tives to tack­le non-com­mu­ni­ca­ble dis­eases (NCDs), in­clud­ing warn­ing la­bels on un­healthy foods, aimed at pre­ven­tion, ear­ly de­tec­tion, and man­age­ment.

A 45-year-old Williamsville man es­caped un­harmed af­ter his home and car were fire­bombed on Sun­day night.

A 50-year-old su­per­vi­sor with the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA), was gunned down while dri­ving in Blan­chisseuse yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the dis­cov­ery of a full-term fe­male fe­tus at the Beetham land­fill on Mon­day af­ter­noon.

Venezue­lan's Min­is­ter of In­te­ri­or and Jus­tice, Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo, has dis­missed state­ments by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar on pos­si­ble threats of Venezue­lan mil­i­tary per­son­nel en­ter­ing T&T in pur­suit of al­leged ter­ror­ists.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) has is­sued a Yel­low Lev­el Ad­verse Weath­er Alert for Trinidad and To­ba­go, which comes in­to ef­fect at 2 am Tues­day June 10th, end­ing at 4 pm Wednes­day June 11th.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) has launched a trade mis­sion to Guyana and Suri­name, tak­ing place from June 9 to June 12.

Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has an­nounced the 15-mem­ber squad for the up­com­ing white-ball home se­ries against South Africa Women, set to take place in Bar­ba­dos. The se­ries, sched­uled for June 11 to 23, will fea­ture three One-Day In­ter­na­tion­als (ODIs) and three T20 In­ter­na­tion­als (T20Is).