Sev­er­al an­gry and em­bar­rassed food card hold­ers were fi­nal­ly able to make their gro­cery pur­chas­es on Fri­day, af­ter the cards were fi­nal­ly cred­it­ed with their usu­al amounts in time for their month-end shop­ping.

One teenag­er drowned off Monos Is­land while an­oth­er re­mains hos­pi­talised fol­low­ing an in­ci­dent dur­ing an out­ing Down the Is­lands on Sun­day.

Emer­gency ef­forts were be­ing made yes­ter­day evening by se­nior mem­bers of the Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) to find a so­lu­tion to the stand-off be­tween To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine and THA deputy Chief Sec­re­tary Wat­son Duke.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress whip David Lee is call­ing for manda­to­ry body cam­eras for all mem­bers of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice.

Sev­er­al em­ploy­ees of one of the coun­try’s well-known cred­it unions, Ven­ture Cred­it Union Co­op­er­a­tive So­ci­ety Lim­it­ed, are ex­press­ing con­cern about some of its fi­nan­cial trans­ac­tions.

Sev­er­al peo­ple scam­pered for their lives as gun­men stormed a Clax­ton Bay bar on Sat­ur­day night, mur­der­ing ex­pec­tant fa­ther Ky­ron Mar­cano and in­jur­ing oth­ers.Mar­cano was one of four peo­ple killed on Sat­ur­day night.

Chair­man of the Com­mis­sion of En­quiry in­to the Paria Fu­el div­ing tragedy, Jerome Lynch, is now a King’s Coun­sel fol­low­ing the death of Queen Eliz­a­beth II last week.

That’s the call from Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress whip David Lee, who wants Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley to de­tail ex­act­ly what Row­ley’s re­cent over­seas en­er­gy mis­sion will bring T&T over the next year.

The Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice (MSJ) is call­ing on Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Stu­art Young to let the coun­try know what caused the April 2021 ex­plo­sion at Ni­Quan En­er­gy Trinidad Ltd.Dur­ing a me­dia con­fer­ence yes­ter­day, MSJ leader David Ab­du­lah re­spond­ed to a news­pa­per re­port high­light­ing that the Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries had ap­proved the restart of Ni­Quan’s gas-to-liq­uids plant in Point-a-Pierre.

The Agri­cul­ture Min­istry has been re­view­ing a pes­ti­cide con­tain­ing Thiodi­carb to deal with the Gi­ant African snail, as the pes­ti­cide has shown in­creased suc­cess in oth­er parts of the world, but al­ter­na­tive plans are al­so be­ing de­vel­oped for im­ple­men­ta­tion with­in the com­ing weeks.

De­spite a jump in do­na­tions since her sto­ry was aired last week­end, can­cer pa­tient Zelia Castel­lo still does not have enough funds for her bone mar­row trans­plant in In­dia.

Thir­ty-three in­mates, in­clud­ing 20 serv­ing life sen­tences were to­day al­lowed the op­por­tu­ni­ty to have spe­cial vis­its with their fam­i­lies.