A Ch­agua­nas fam­i­ly was left home­less af­ter work­ers, al­leged­ly at­tached to the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC), stormed their home and de­stroyed their be­long­ings in what they de­scribe as an “il­le­gal evic­tion.”

All To­ba­go Fish­er­folk As­so­ci­a­tion (AT­FA) pres­i­dent Cur­tis Dou­glas is breath­ing a sigh of re­lief, fol­low­ing the re­cov­ery of a boat and en­gine which were stolen on Sat­ur­day night at Cour­land Bay.

Hun­dreds of fe­male po­lice of­fi­cers, as well as em­ploy­ees from the Min­istry of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment, oth­er min­istries and state agen­cies, turned out to par­tic­i­pate in the In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Day (IWD) walk around the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day.

As In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Day is com­mem­o­rat­ed, women and girls are be­ing urged to take charge of their health by en­sur­ing they re­ceive the HPV vac­cine and un­der­go reg­u­lar Pap smears to guard against cer­vi­cal can­cer.

Res­i­dents and her­itage ad­vo­cates in Palmiste are step­ping up ef­forts to pre­serve the Cedar Grove chim­ney, one of south Trinidad’s last sug­ar es­tate relics, as they or­gan­ise a pe­ti­tion urg­ing au­thor­i­ties to save the 200-year-old struc­ture.

Colour and ex­cite­ment filled the Aranguez Sa­van­nah yes­ter­day as Phag­wa cel­e­bra­tions were host­ed, bring­ing to­geth­er tra­di­tion, com­mu­ni­ty and uni­ty.

Par­tic­i­pants were drenched in vi­brant colours and laugh­ter as the Pan­davas Group host­ed Phag­wa cel­e­bra­tions at Palmiste Park, San Fer­nan­do yes­ter­day.

A man has been or­dered to pay a lit­tle over $100,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to two women who were in­jured af­ter his teenage daugh­ter crashed in­to them while dri­ving his car. 

A man from South Oropouche has been ac­quit­ted of caus­ing the death of a teenag­er by dan­ger­ous dri­ving over two decades ago.

The num­ber of child abuse al­le­ga­tions na­tion­wide on a month­ly ba­sis has re­mained gen­er­al­ly con­sis­tent, ac­cord­ing to of­fi­cials in the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty, as they stress the need for a so­ci­etal ap­proach to pro­tect­ing chil­dren.

Homi­cide of­fi­cers, along with per­son­nel from the An­ti-Kid­nap­ping Unit (AKU), were called to Tyri­co Beach at Mara­cas Bay yes­ter­day morn­ing, af­ter a body was dis­cov­ered in some bush­es.

A Ch­agua­nas man was ar­rest­ed by po­lice at a bar along the Ca­roni Sa­van­nah Road on Sat­ur­day night, af­ter he was held with an il­le­gal firearm.