The State in­tends to ap­peal Fri­day's High Court judg­ment which ruled that the Min­istry failed to pro­vide spe­cialised health care to a six-year-old boy from Ch­agua­nas with birth de­fects as­so­ci­at­ed with the Zi­ka virus and or­dered the State to pay sig­nif­i­cant com­pen­sa­tion.

The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) has launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to re­ports of a truck dump­ing oil in­to the Wya­bal Riv­er and Ca­roni Riv­er at Bam­boo Num­ber 2.

A High Court judge has sen­tenced two Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als to more than two years in jail af­ter they were found guilty of traf­fick­ing mar­i­jua­na with an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of BDS$744,600 (One Bar­ba­dos dol­lar=US$0.50 cents).

Ja­maicans have been told to brace them­selves for an ex­tend­ed pe­ri­od of dry weath­er as a re­sult of the re­cent­ly end­ed La Niña weath­er phe­nom­e­non.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, around 3 pm on In­di­an Ar­rival Day, Jaikaran who was bathing by him­self lost con­trol.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Med­ical As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) says that on­ly by com­bin­ing pub­lic health ed­u­ca­tion cam­paigns with strong pol­i­cy de­ci­sions and law en­force­ment of the ex­ist­ing Act, that the harm­ful ef­fects of smok­ing and va­p­ing in T&T can be stopped.

Four hous­es have tum­bled in­to a gap­ing precipice at Whar­well Road, Table­land, and, as heavy rains con­tin­ue, fur­ther slip­page is oc­cur­ring, putting two more hous­es in grave dan­ger.

A group of Ama­zon work­ers up­set about re­cent lay­offs, a re­turn-to-of­fice man­date and the com­pa­ny’s en­vi­ron­men­tal im­pact is plan­ning a walk­out at the com­pa­ny’s Seat­tle head­quar­ters Wednes­day.

Two T&T T20 stars, Evin Lewis and Joshua Da Sil­va will head back to the St Kitts & Nevis Pa­tri­ots for the 2023 Caribbean Pre­mier League.

The Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rance Deyals­ingh is plead­ing with par­ents to ed­u­cate their chil­dren about the dan­gers of smok­ing.

The To­ba­go Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (TRHA) has ap­point­ed Garth Alexan­der as its in­ter­im Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer (CEO).

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley said he will not be invit­ing in­ter­na­tion­al ob­servers to over­see the up­com­ing Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Elec­tions.