Ven­dors at this year’s Di­vali Na­gar are an­tic­i­pat­ing larg­er crowds than in pre­vi­ous years, say­ing the height­ened pub­lic­i­ty sur­round­ing the event over the past two weeks could at­tract peo­ple who do not nor­mal­ly at­tend the an­nu­al cel­e­bra­tion.

Op­po­si­tion Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les has crit­i­cised Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der for de­clin­ing to an­swer ques­tions about the pro­cure­ment of mo­bile units for the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

For­mer Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Ceron Richards has won a key de­ci­sion in his lengthy le­gal bat­tle with the Pub­lic Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PSC) over a pro­mo­tion.

The Privy Coun­cil will have the fi­nal say in a more than decade-long le­gal bat­tle be­tween a for­mer diplo­mat and the Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion over a de­nied ve­hi­cle tax ex­emp­tion.

An­tho­ny Em­rold “Broth­er Valenti­no” Phillip was yes­ter­day de­scribed as a cul­tur­al el­der whose mu­sic be­came part of the na­tion’s con­science.

Patrick Stew­art, the clas­si­cal­ly trained stage ac­tor who scaled the Shake­speare­an canon and added grav­i­tas to a “Star Trek” fran­chise and the “X-Men” films, has died. He was 86.

A firearm re­port­ed­ly stolen from a po­lice of­fi­cer dur­ing a rob­bery at Pi­geon Point last week was found on a man shot and killed by po­lice in Pa­tience Hill, To­ba­go, on Wednes­day night.

CARIB Brew­ery (Trinidad and To­ba­go) Lim­it­ed will trans­port spe­cialised brew­ing equip­ment from the Port of Port-of-Spain to its Champs Fleurs fa­cil­i­ty on Sun­day, and mo­torists are be­ing warned to ex­pect tem­po­rary traf­fic re­stric­tions and de­lays along the route.

Is­raeli Prime Min­is­ter Ben­jamin Ne­tanyahu and his par­ty on Thurs­day am­pli­fied al­le­ga­tions that the coun­try’s Arab-led par­ties had “stolen” the elec­tion, as fi­nal re­sults are set to con­firm that Ne­tanyahu’s bloc has lost its ma­jor­i­ty in par­lia­ment.

A To­ba­go man has been shot and killed by po­lice fol­low­ing a con­fronta­tion near Pa­tience Hill on Wednes­day night.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s his­toric de­ci­sion to vote against a Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly (UN­GA) res­o­lu­tion call­ing for an end to the Unit­ed States’ eco­nom­ic em­bar­go against Cu­ba has drawn strong con­dem­na­tion from for­mer gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials and raised con­cerns about the coun­try’s for­eign pol­i­cy di­rec­tion.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has de­fend­ed Trinidad and To­ba­go’s his­toric de­ci­sion to vote against a Unit­ed Na­tions res­o­lu­tion call­ing for an end to the Unit­ed States em­bar­go on Cu­ba, de­clar­ing that her Gov­ern­ment will not sup­port a “mil­i­tary dic­ta­tor­ship.”