A dig­i­tal in­clu­sion and in­no­va­tion for change pro­gramme host­ed by Glass­wings In­ter­na­tion­al and Citi, cul­mi­nat­ed on Thurs­day with a grand com­pe­ti­tion for stu­dents, with two win­ning schools cop­ping $10,000 which can be used to­wards a project aimed at com­bat­ing a school or com­mu­ni­ty is­sue.

Gov­ern­ment has es­ti­mat­ed prop­er­ty tax rev­enue of $50 mil­lion for 2023 – and an es­ti­mat­ed $13.591 bil­lion in rev­enue from oil com­pa­nies in 2023 al­so.

Na­tion­al award re­cip­i­ent Dr Jerome Teelucks­ingh, who is the founder of In­ter­na­tion­al Men’s Day in T&T and the In­ter­na­tion­al Day of the Boy Child, says Caribbean men are con­tin­u­ing to face a cri­sis as it re­lates to re­la­tion­ships, stereo­types and emas­cu­la­tion.

Three men staged a protest at Sec­ond Cale­do­nia Ex­ten­sion Road in Mor­vant yes­ter­day, call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to fix sev­er­al press­ing is­sues in their com­mu­ni­ty.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors are prob­ing a drug link in the mur­der of El So­cor­ro burg­er ven­dor Shiv­anan Ram­nar­ine, who was shot 17 times near his cart on Wednes­day.

Sev­er­al promi­nent mem­bers of the Ma­yaro con­stituen­cy were recog­nised at a gala awards cer­e­mo­ny host­ed by Ma­yaro MP Rush­ton Paray at the Ma­yaro Re­source Cen­tre last week.

In com­mem­o­ra­tion of Food Loss and Waste Aware­ness Day, the Re­gion­al Of­fice of the Unit­ed Na­tions Or­ga­ni­za­tion for Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean (FAO), the In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank, the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture of Ar­genti­na, and the Par­lia­men­tary Front Against Hunger host­ed an event to share ini­tia­tives and ac­tions to mit­i­gate the im­pact of this prob­lem on food se­cu­ri­ty in the re­gion. 

Pun­dit Satyanand Ma­haraj has said that af­ter Navra­tri ser­vice last night mem­bers of the mandir se­cured their Kali Ma­ta tem­ple in Car­li Bay and head­ed home.

The re­vised na­tion­al school dis­ci­pline ma­trix has been ap­proved for im­ple­men­ta­tion in all schools. Male stu­dents who re­peat­ed­ly com­mit ma­jor or se­vere in­frac­tions, and are fac­ing ex­pul­sion will be rec­om­mend­ed by the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion to the Mi­LAT Pro­gramme. Mi­LAT is ex­pect­ed to as­sist young male cit­i­zens in trans­form­ing the tra­jec­to­ry of their lives. 

At least 15 peo­ple have been con­firmed dead in the af­ter­math of Hur­ri­cane Ian and of­fi­cials are warn­ing it could be one of the dead­liest storms in Flori­da.

The Bank had told cus­tomers with the OneCard that they must change their card to the new Visa Deb­it card by Sep­tem­ber 30, 2022, af­ter which time, "your OneCard will not work".

The fol­low­ing is a bul­letin is­sued by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS):