San Fer­nan­do May­or Robert Par­ris is urg­ing Pleas­antville res­i­dents to stop burn­ing garbage along the fence line of Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um fol­low­ing an oil spill that forced the clo­sure of San Fer­nan­do East Sec­ondary School this week.

As death claims more of their col­leagues, sur­viv­ing Petrotrin Trin­mar re­tirees com­plained yes­ter­day that they are still be­ing de­nied the med­ical ben­e­fits they say are owed to them and are now call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to in­ter­vene.

Even as Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar ex­pressed se­ri­ous con­cern over yes­ter­day’s triple mur­der in Laven­tille, at least one res­i­dent is again call­ing for a State of Emer­gency (SoE), say­ing the coun­try’s crime sit­u­a­tion is out of con­trol.

In the wake of a triple mur­der in Laven­tille, Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der is urg­ing com­mu­ni­ties across the na­tion to play an ac­tive role in stand­ing against crime.

A Mara­bel­la moth­er and her son were rushed to hos­pi­tal on Thurs­day night af­ter be­ing vi­cious­ly at­tacked by their pet dog at their home.

Ven­dors op­er­at­ing at the Ch­agua­nas Ven­dors’ Mall have ex­pressed anger over a de­ci­sion by May­or Faaiq Mo­hammed to clear the site.

Bee­sham Philip, 63, of Ma­haraj Street, Mon­trose, Ch­agua­nas, was trav­el­ling north along the Uri­ah But­ler High­way at about 10.15 pm on Thurs­day, when he lost con­trol of the Maz­da RX-8 he was dri­ving, reg­is­tra­tion num­ber PCZ 7033. The ve­hi­cle crashed in­to a con­crete bar­ri­er on the west­ern side of the dual car­riage­way near the Di­vali Na­gar walkover.

While for­mer Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie’s near­ly two-decade tenure was marked by oc­ca­sion­al con­tro­ver­sy, col­leagues and staff yes­ter­day re­mem­bered him as a trans­for­ma­tion­al leader who mod­ernised Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Ju­di­cia­ry.

A 63-year-old Ch­agua­nas man died on Thurs­day night af­ter the sports car he was dri­ving crashed and caught fire along the Uri­ah But­ler High­way.

The Women Par­lia­men­tar­i­ans of Trinidad and To­ba­go, WPTT, has opened ap­pli­ca­tions for Co­hort Three of its Young Women Em­pow­ered to Serve, YES, Lead­er­ship Pro­gramme 2026.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) will un­der­take its sec­ond Trade Mis­sion on the Seas from Feb­ru­ary 28 to March 10, led by CEO Dr Mahin­dra Ramdeen.

Heads of Gov­ern­ment of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty and US Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio have agreed to a “Co­op­er­a­tion Frame­work ap­pro­pri­ate to the 21st cen­tu­ry to sup­port the needs and in­ter­ests of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty and the USA.”