The burn­ing of three Ra­vana ef­fi­gies, in­clud­ing one stand­ing 85 feet tall, will bring this year’s Ram­leela cel­e­bra­tions at the Pierre Road Recre­ation Ground in Char­lieville, Ch­agua­nas, to a dra­mat­ic close to­mor­row, as the an­nu­al Hin­du the­atri­cal por­tray­al of Lord Ra­ma’s life con­tin­ues to draw pa­trons from across Trinidad and To­ba­go.

A del­e­ga­tion of pub­lic and pri­vate sec­tor of­fi­cials from Venezuela’s Su­cre State will vis­it Trinidad and To­ba­go next week to ex­plore eco­nom­ic part­ner­ships, trade and in­vest­ment op­por­tu­ni­ties, and strength­en bi­lat­er­al ties be­tween the two coun­tries.

Op­po­si­tion MP Colm Im­bert has ac­cused the East Port-of-Spain De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Ltd of be­ing in breach of the Com­pa­nies Act, af­ter Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee con­firmed that the State com­pa­ny has been with­out a board since May 2025.

The fu­ner­al ser­vice for vet­er­an ca­lyp­son­ian Broth­er Valenti­no will take place on Oc­to­ber 29 at the Cathe­dral of the Im­mac­u­late Con­cep­tion, In­de­pen­dence Square, Port-of-Spain.

Just two weeks af­ter po­lice shot and killed two al­leged as­sailants in her neigh­bour­hood, Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress coun­cil­lor Vanes­sa Kussie was robbed out­side her home on Thurs­day night.

The rel­a­tives of 28-year-old An­dell Lee are de­mand­ing an in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to his fa­tal shoot­ing by po­lice in St Barbs, Laven­tille, on Thurs­day, in­sist­ing the of­fi­cial ac­count of the in­ci­dent does not match what fam­i­ly mem­bers and res­i­dents say oc­curred.

A rob­bery sus­pect want­ed in con­nec­tion with a home in­va­sion in the Mon Re­pos dis­trict was shot and killed by po­lice in Ste Madeleine yes­ter­day af­ter he al­leged­ly point­ed a firearm at of­fi­cers pur­su­ing him dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion.

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing the fam­i­lies of two women with eight chil­dren and two or­phans of a for­mer Trinida­di­an Is­lam­ic State (IS) fight­er strand­ed in a Syr­i­an refugee camp have been en­cour­aged to con­tin­ue talks with the State over its of­fi­cial po­si­tion on whether the group can re­turn to Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Six po­lice con­sta­bles have scored an­oth­er vic­to­ry in their al­most decade-long le­gal bat­tle over pro­mo­tions. 

The fu­ner­al ser­vice for vet­er­an ca­lyp­son­ian Broth­er Valenti­no will take place on Thurs­day, Oc­to­ber 29, at the Cathe­dral of the Im­mac­u­late Con­cep­tion, In­de­pen­dence Square, Port-of-Spain.

A man be­lieved to be want­ed in con­nec­tion with a home in­va­sion and rob­bery in­ves­ti­ga­tion was shot and killed by po­lice dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in Ste Madeleine ear­ly this morn­ing.

A del­e­ga­tion of Venezue­lan pub­lic and pri­vate-sec­tor of­fi­cials from Su­cre State will vis­it Trinidad and To­ba­go next week to seek eco­nom­ic part­ner­ships and strength­en bi­lat­er­al ties.