Grand Chief of Moru­ga, Er­ic Lewis, says he is pre­pared to give his life to pro­tect and re­vive the tra­di­tions of T&T’s First Peo­ples, ar­gu­ing that al­though In­dige­nous com­mu­ni­ties have shaped the coun­try’s val­ues of hu­mil­i­ty, broth­er­hood, uni­ty, and to­geth­er­ness, they re­main “for­got­ten, side­lined and os­tracised.”

A po­lice con­sta­ble and a civil­ian have been re­mand­ed in cus­tody af­ter ap­pear­ing in court charged with the mur­der of live­stock farmer Vish­nu Lal­la.

A re­tired nurse has been giv­en the green light to sue the Of­fice of the Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er over a de­ci­sion to refuse to dis­close de­tails of an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to her daugh­ter’s “mys­te­ri­ous” death that was ruled a sui­cide. 

A week-long covert in­tel­li­gence and sur­veil­lance op­er­a­tion has re­sult­ed in the seizure of ap­prox­i­mate­ly ten ki­los of mar­i­jua­na, which had been con­cealed in a bar­rel at a cus­toms-bond­ed ware­house in El So­cor­ro.

Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) chair­man Feeroz Khan says he in­tend­ed no dis­re­spect to the 26 em­ploy­ees whose con­tracts were not re­newed last week, de­spite his de­ci­sion be­ing framed by his de­scrip­tion of the Cor­po­ra­tion as a “sick cow rid­dled with ticks.”

The Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) has re­ject­ed the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion’s (PSA) ac­cu­sa­tions of stalling wage ne­go­ti­a­tions and is in­stead ques­tion­ing why the union op­pos­es re­view­ing the state of the econ­o­my be­fore talks be­gin.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says he will be speak­ing with At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie to im­prove the leg­is­la­tion to mon­i­tor mi­grants who have been ar­rest­ed in this coun­try and grant­ed Or­ders of Su­per­vi­sion.

A dra­mat­ic scene un­fold­ed along the North Coast Road in Mara­cas yes­ter­day af­ter­noon af­ter a maxi taxi was pushed over an em­bank­ment when a tree col­lapsed on­to the mov­ing ve­hi­cle.

With a high rate of child­hood obe­si­ty and non­com­mu­ni­ca­ble dis­eases (NCDs), the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion is set to crack down on sug­ary drinks and high-fat snacks in schools, aim­ing to pro­tect stu­dents’ health and learn­ing.

Min­is­ter of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment, Kennedy Swarats­ingh, says he has in­struct­ed the Ch­aguara­mas De­vel­op­ment Au­thor­i­ty (CDA) to work with the Min­istry of Cul­ture to cre­ate spaces where fetes can be held. Swarats­ingh al­so holds the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for the en­vi­ron­ment. He made the com­ments in an in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia at COP30 yes­ter­day in Belem, Brazil, a day af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar ex­pand­ed her Gov­ern­ment’s clam­p­down on noise pol­lu­tion, or­der­ing an im­me­di­ate halt to fetes at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um and the Jean Pierre Com­plex ex­cept dur­ing the de­fined Car­ni­val win­dow.

A swift re­sponse from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Fire Ser­vice (TTFS) af­ter a mid-morn­ing fire at the Aranguez North Sec­ondary School yes­ter­day re­sult­ed in the safe evac­u­a­tion of stu­dents, teach­ers, and vis­it­ing ed­u­ca­tion of­fi­cials.

The Arch­dio­cese of Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day said it was not go­ing to com­ment on a law­suit brought against it by five men, as the mat­ter is now be­fore the courts.