A High Court Judge has per­ma­nent­ly stayed the pros­e­cu­tion of a 62-year-old man, ac­cused of mur­der­ing a one-year-old ba­by dur­ing a do­mes­tic dis­pute with her grand­moth­er and moth­er in 2021, af­ter pros­e­cu­tors sought to with­draw a plea deal for a less­er of­fence. 

More than 24 hours af­ter Der­rick “Stones” Tardieu was re­leased by kid­nap­pers along the North Coast of Trinidad af­ter a ran­som com­prised of both TT and US cur­ren­cy was paid, ne­go­ti­a­tions were said to be con­tin­u­ing to se­cure the safe re­lease of his wife Clara­belle Tardieu.

To­ba­go po­lice are urg­ing mo­torists to be cau­tious on the is­land’s roads af­ter a car plunged over a precipice and in­to the sea fol­low­ing a two-ve­hi­cle col­li­sion along Mil­ford Road, Lam­beau, yes­ter­day morn­ing.

A 55-year-old man died af­ter he was elec­tro­cut­ed while work­ing on a rooftop at his home in Plum Mi­tan, Biche, on Wednes­day.

Ten weeks af­ter bud­ding foot­baller Mari­ah Seenath was found dead near the Friend­ship Vil­lage Recre­ation Ground, her rel­a­tives say they are no clos­er to jus­tice.

Two na­tion­als of Trinidad and To­ba­go have been charged in the Unit­ed States with in­ter­na­tion­al co­caine traf­fick­ing of­fences fol­low­ing the un­seal­ing of a fed­er­al in­dict­ment.

The Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency {CARPHA) and the Healthy Caribbean Coali­tion (HCC) have re­newed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing to con­tin­ue joint work on the re­gion­al re­sponse to non-com­mu­ni­ca­ble dis­eases (NCDs).

The Unit­ed Na­tions has ex­pressed se­ri­ous con­cern over the Unit­ed States’ de­ci­sion to sanc­tion two ad­di­tion­al judges of the In­ter­na­tion­al Crim­i­nal Court (ICC), warn­ing that the move un­der­mines ju­di­cial in­de­pen­dence and in­ter­na­tion­al crim­i­nal jus­tice.

A 32-year-old moth­er of two from Ch­agua­nas, Alian­na Sama­roo, who ad­mit­ted to in­cit­ing vi­o­lence to­wards gov­ern­ment mem­bers in a se­ries of so­cial me­dia posts, has been placed on a three-year bond.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump signed an ex­ec­u­tive or­der Thurs­day that would re­clas­si­fy mar­i­jua­na as a less dan­ger­ous drug and open new av­enues for med­ical re­search—a ma­jor shift in fed­er­al drug pol­i­cy that inch­es clos­er to what many states have done.

Kalei­do­scope Paints Lim­it­ed host­ed a Christ­mas event for or­phaned chil­dren at its San Juan com­pound on De­cem­ber 7.

A team of 117 elec­tri­cal lines­men from Cana­da ar­rived in Ja­maica on Wednes­day, to as­sist the light and pow­er com­pa­ny—the Ja­maica Pub­lic Ser­vice (JPS)—to re­store elec­tric­i­ty in sec­tions of the is­land that were bat­tered by Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa.