Un­prece­dent­ed flood­ing brought mis­ery to dozens of fam­i­lies along Ack­bar Road, Char­lieville, as heavy rains in­un­dat­ed homes and dis­rupt­ed Di­vali cel­e­bra­tions across Cen­tral Trinidad.

Pan­nist Joshua Re­grel­lo is set to be­come the first steel­pan play­er to per­form at the Taj Ma­hal in In­dia. He made the an­nounce­ment on Sun­day evening dur­ing a per­for­mance with tabla play­er Shiv­an Seenath at the clos­ing night of the Di­vali Na­gar cel­e­bra­tions.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing in­to an ac­ci­dent in Princes Town on Sun­day in which a man was killed and five oth­er peo­ple, in­clud­ing three chil­dren, were in­jured.

A 28-year-old man re­mains hos­pi­talised in se­ri­ous con­di­tion af­ter be­ing shot mul­ti­ple times at his Gas­par­il­lo home on Sat­ur­day night.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the dis­cov­ery of a de­com­pos­ing body on Sun­day morn­ing near the Diego Mar­tin Bor­ough Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing at Ken Val­ley Dri­ve, West Vale, Diego Mar­tin.

The Ja­maica Glean­er has crit­i­cised Trinidad and To­ba­go Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar for her gov­ern­ment’s ap­proach to the US naval build-up in the south­ern Caribbean and its threat of mil­i­tary ac­tion against Venezuela.

The de­com­pos­ing body of a pen­sion­er was found on Sun­day morn­ing near the Diego Mar­tin Bor­ough Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing at Ken Val­ley Dri­ve, West Vale, Diego Mar­tin. 

Pan­nist Joshua Re­grel­lo will per­form at the Taj Ma­hal in In­dia in the com­ing weeks. He made the an­nounce­ment on Sun­day evening dur­ing a per­for­mance with tabla play­er Shiv­an Seenath at the clos­ing night of the Di­vali Na­gar cel­e­bra­tions.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) has is­sued two yel­low-lev­el alerts for ad­verse weath­er and haz­ardous seas, warn­ing that un­sta­ble con­di­tions could con­tin­ue through Mon­day night.

Po­lice re­port­ed that the 35-year-old work­er was at Trip­ple R Bar, East­ern Main Road, D’Abadie around 11.20 am when a “fair skin” man, stocky built with plaits hair­style and a hat hand­ed her a hun­dred-dol­lar bill and asked for a beer. 

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ac­knowl­edged the grow­ing anx­i­ety among cit­i­zens, as­sur­ing the na­tion that her Gov­ern­ment has been work­ing “qui­et­ly, steadi­ly, and de­ci­sive­ly” to keep peo­ple safe.