A High Court Judge has re­solved a le­gal dis­pute over the es­tate of de­ceased renowned Se­nior Coun­sel Frank Solomon.

The State has been or­dered to pay a lit­tle over $2.3 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion to a com­pa­ny which pro­vid­ed ser­vices to the Of­fice of Dis­as­ter Pre­pared­ness and Man­age­ment (ODPM).

A man­hunt has been launched for five Venezue­lan na­tion­als who es­caped from the Im­mi­gra­tion De­ten­tion Cen­tre in Aripo yes­ter­day.

Al­though his act­ing ap­point­ment was not de­bat­ed in Par­lia­ment, ACP Wayne Mys­tar’s rec­om­men­da­tion is valid for one year and could be brought back. 

A Laven­tille man was ab­duct­ed and robbed af­ter ac­cept­ing a job via TT Ride Share in San­ta Cruz on Sun­day night.

A neigh­bour re­port­ed to po­lice that around 11 pm there was a low volt­age and short­ly af­ter she heard crack­ling sounds and saw the house on fire. The house was de­scribed as a sin­gle-sto­ry, two-bed­room ply­wood struc­ture.  The house was fit­ted with elec­tric­i­ty.

Po­lice are still try­ing to iden­ti­fy a man who was found dead in an out­door wash­room in Ch­agua­nas on Mon­day morn­ing.

Five Venezue­lan na­tion­als es­caped from the Im­mi­gra­tion De­ten­tion Cen­tre in Aripo on Tues­day, June 24, by cut­ting a hole in the roof of the fa­cil­i­ty.

Chair of the Al­liance of Small Is­land States (AO­SIS) joined rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Least De­vel­oped Coun­tries (LD­Cs) on Tues­day at the Bonn Cli­mate Change Con­fer­ence to ex­press con­cern over stalled ne­go­ti­a­tions.

Pres­i­dent Amar­jeet Kocher of the Ro­tary Club of St. Au­gus­tine has pledged $90,000 to The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St. Au­gus­tine Cam­pus. The do­na­tion will be dis­trib­uted over a three-year pe­ri­od, with $30,000 al­lo­cat­ed an­nu­al­ly to fund schol­ar­ships and bur­saries for un­der­grad­u­ate stu­dents in need.

The Min­is­ter of Fi­nance, Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo, pre­sent­ed in­stru­ments of ap­point­ment to new mem­bers of the Board of Di­rec­tors of Caribbean Air­lines Lim­it­ed on Tues­day.

A 4.9-mag­ni­tude earth­quake shook Trinidad and To­ba­go on Tues­day af­ter­noon, the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies’ Seis­mic Re­search Cen­tre (UWI‑SRC) con­firmed.