She will rep­re­sent this coun­try in the 71st Miss Uni­verse pageant in 2023, where Har­naaz Sand­hu of In­dia will crown her suc­ces­sor.

There were no new COVID-19 deaths in To­ba­go last week, with the is­land’s death toll from the dis­ease re­main­ing at 282, as at Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 10.

T&TEC cus­tomers in parts of North  Trinidad, as well as To­ba­go, will ex­pe­ri­ence a tem­po­rary dis­rup­tion to their sup­ply of elec­tric­i­ty, Tues­day 13 Sep­tem­ber 2022. De­tails fol­low in this re­lease…

The Age of Union Al­liance has an­nounced that they have do­nat­ed USD $1.5 mil­lion to Na­ture Seek­ers, a non-prof­it com­mu­ni­ty-based or­ga­ni­za­tion in the vil­lage of Matu­ra, on the east coast of Trinidad. De­tails fol­low in this press re­lease...

KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine claimed Mon­day that it took sev­er­al more vil­lages, push­ing Russ­ian forces right back to the north­east­ern bor­der, part of a light­ning coun­terof­fen­sive that forced Moscow to with­draw troops from some ar­eas in re­cent days.

 Lat­est es­ti­mates show that forced labour and forced mar­riage have in­creased sig­nif­i­cant­ly in the last five years, ac­cord­ing to the In­ter­na­tion­al Labour Or­ga­ni­za­tion, Walk Free and the In­ter­na­tion­al Or­gan­i­sa­tion for Mi­gra­tion 

King Charles ar­rived in Ed­in­burgh on Mon­day to ac­com­pa­ny his late moth­er’s cof­fin on an emo­tion-charged pro­ces­sion through the his­toric heart of the Scot­tish cap­i­tal to a cathe­dral where it will lie for 24 hours to al­low the pub­lic to pay their last re­spects.

The fol­low­ing is the bul­letin is­sued by the Met Ser­vice to 06:00 am, to­day, cov­er­ing the pe­ri­od: to­day un­til mid­night…

With an up­surge in car thefts with­in the South­ern Di­vi­sion, the po­lice are urg­ing mo­tor ve­hi­cle own­ers to be more vig­i­lant and cau­tious.

The Prime Min­is­ter of An­tigua and Bar­bu­da says the Caribbean coun­try will hold a ref­er­en­dum on whether to be­come a re­pub­lic and re­move King Charles III as the head of state with­in the next few years.

ED­IN­BURGH, Scot­land—In a som­bre, re­gal pro­ces­sion, Queen Eliz­a­beth II’s flag-draped cof­fin was dri­ven slow­ly through the Scot­tish coun­try­side yes­ter­day from her beloved Bal­moral Cas­tle to the Scot­tish cap­i­tal of Ed­in­burgh.

KINGSTOWN, St Vin­cent—Sev­er­al peo­ple on their way to at­tend a fu­ner­al are feared to have died when the ve­hi­cle in which they were trav­el­ling over­turned in Sandy Bay on Sun­day af­ter­noon, eye­wit­ness­es have re­port­ed.