The Prin­ci­pal of UWI St. Au­gus­tine Pro­fes­sor Rose-Marie Belle An­toine has de­nounced the death of their staff mem­ber Maris­sa Ed­wards.  She stat­ed that “Words are of­ten in­ad­e­quate, es­pe­cial­ly when we are speak­ing about some­one so young, vi­brant, and much loved, with so much yet left to of­fer her fam­i­ly and friends. It is even worse when the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing her pass­ing are trag­ic." 

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has out­lined the ex­pand­ed pol­i­cy for the Gov­ern­ment As­sis­tance for Tu­ition (GATE), as an­nounced in Mon­day's Bud­get pre­sen­ta­tion.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is due to re­spond to the Ap­pro­pri­a­tion Bill that was read in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives on Mon­day by Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert. Here are 5 key things to note.

Beetham res­i­dents told Guardian Me­dia that the sink­hole de­vel­oped overnight and has been widen­ing as the earth be­low the road­way has been slip­ping. 

Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Moru­ga/Table­land Michelle Ben­jamin says state­ments made by Min­is­ter of Sport Sham­fa Cud­joe fol­low­ing the bud­get are "un­for­tu­nate, un­be­liev­able and un­couth." 

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty is ad­vis­ing of the dis­rup­tion in wa­ter sup­ply to cus­tomers served by the Aripo Wa­ter Treat­ment Plant.

"Madam Speak­er, as a fis­cal stim­u­lus to the econ­o­my and a fil­lip to the re­tail sec­tor we are pro­vid­ing re­lief to work­ing fam­i­lies by in­creas­ing the per­son­al in­come tax ex­emp­tion lim­it from $84,000 to $90,000 per year.

Works Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan says the gov­ern­ment "got licks" over its fail­ure to re­pair roads but he is as­sur­ing that $450 mil­lion is now avail­able to re­pair sec­ondary roads across the coun­try. 

T&TEC cus­tomers in parts of East, South and Cen­tral Trinidad, as well as To­ba­go, will ex­pe­ri­ence a tem­po­rary dis­rup­tion to their sup­ply of elec­tric­i­ty, Fri­day 30 Sep­tem­ber 2022. De­tails fol­low in this re­lease...

Res­cue crews wad­ed through flood­ed streets and used boats Thurs­day in a scram­ble to save peo­ple trapped af­ter Hur­ri­cane Ian de­stroyed a cross-sec­tion of Flori­da and brought tor­ren­tial rains that con­tin­ued to fall.

The Po­lice Ser­vice has con­firmed that four il­le­gal im­mi­grants have been de­tained, who were found to have in their pos­ses­sion il­le­gal weapons and what is be­lieved to be cas­es of con­tra­band al­co­hol.

The med­ical cer­tifi­cate that out­lines the death of Queen Eliz­a­beth II has shown that she died of 'old age'.