Just over a week af­ter the Pub­lic Trans­port Ser­vice Cor­po­ra­tion (PTSC) re­cer­ti­fied him, vet­er­an bus dri­ver Mun­saf Khan suf­fered a hor­rif­ic death yes­ter­day when his coach col­lid­ed with a truck on the Solomon Ho­choy High­way in Freeport.

The jour­ney to Miss World T&T (MWTT) 2025 has com­menced with the un­veil­ing of 20 fi­nal­ists dur­ing a Re­veal Night host­ed at The Brix Au­to­graph Col­lec­tion.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are un­der­way in­to yes­ter­day’s fa­tal high­way crash that claimed the lives of Pub­lic Trans­port Ser­vice Cor­po­ra­tion (PTSC) dri­ver Mun­saf Khan and SWAT Es­tate Po­lice Com­pa­ny of­fi­cer Rox­anne Phillip.

West In­dies bat­ting icon Bri­an Lara and his part­ner­ship with the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT) were the cen­tre of a so­cial me­dia row be­tween for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Bar­ry Padarath yes­ter­day.

Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen says she will not be in­tim­i­dat­ed by any al­leged threats to her safe­ty and life and will car­ry out her re­spon­si­bil­i­ties as nor­mal.

One of two quar­ry op­er­a­tors be­ing linked to the al­leged death threats is­sued to De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has come out fight­ing back.

To­co/San­gre Grande con­stituents are pray­ing for no harm to come to their Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment and De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge.

Po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tist Dr In­di­ra Ram­per­sad does not be­lieve the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to can­cel this year’s In­de­pen­dence Day pa­rade will have any sig­nif­i­cant po­lit­i­cal fall­out.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says pub­lic events host­ed by the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress, in­clud­ing the Mon­day Night Re­port, will not be stopped de­spite al­leged death threats to some Cab­i­net min­is­ters.

Crim­i­nol­o­gist Dr Randy Seep­er­sad says al­leged threats against Gov­ern­ment min­is­ters show the crim­i­nal el­e­ments sense a re­al threat from the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says all the files of ap­pli­cants for firearm users li­cens­es were not de­stroyed af­ter the fire sup­pres­sion sys­tem at the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing mal­func­tioned on Mon­day.

Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard, SC, has ques­tioned the need for a pro­posed law­suit over his of­fice’s per­ceived de­lay in fa­cil­i­tat­ing the tri­al of a group of men ac­cused of the mur­der of Se­nior Coun­sel Dana See­ta­hal.