In the 63 years since in­de­pen­dence, lit­er­a­ture and acad­e­mia have of­ten brought Trinidad and To­ba­go in­ter­na­tion­al recog­ni­tion, but no field has done so more con­sis­tent­ly than sport.

Greater pub­lic aware­ness of the im­por­tance of man­groves and their role in en­vi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion is ur­gent­ly need­ed, says Viean­na Tir­ban­ie, Man­grove Con­ser­va­tion Lead with Ecosys­tem Ap­proach. Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia at yes­ter­day’s Man­grove Fes­ti­val at Fe­lic­i­ty Pres­by­ter­ian School in Ch­agua­nas, Tir­ban­ie un­der­scored the eco­log­i­cal and so­cio-eco­nom­ic val­ue of these coastal forests.

Two San Juan men who live next door to each oth­er sus­tained non-life-threat­en­ing in­juries dur­ing a shoot­ing on Thurs­day night.

Bar­rack­pore labour­er Habib John died a hero af­ter sav­ing pen­sion­er Ann Marie Co­dring­ton-Mitchell when a van ploughed in­to them as they walked along Rochard Road, Pe­nal.

Thieves broke in­to Ben­ji’s Bak­ery on Guaico Tamana Road, San­gre Grande, ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing, steal­ing pas­tries, bread and oth­er items.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says he has filed his In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion de­c­la­ra­tions and doc­u­ment­ed the process so the pub­lic can see how it’s done.

Con­tro­ver­sy erupt­ed yes­ter­day over a re­port­ed $750,000 pay­ment to top ex­ec­u­tives of the Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO).

An in­de­pen­dent com­mit­tee has start­ed in­ves­ti­gat­ing the cir­cum­stances un­der which six-year-old Jash­er Fran­cois died, while rel­a­tives have resched­uled the sec­ond au­top­sy ini­tial­ly set for yes­ter­day.

Re­turn­ing to pub­lic health lead­er­ship af­ter near­ly three decades, for­mer ed­u­ca­tion min­is­ter Dr Tim Gopeesingh has been ap­point­ed chair­man of the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA), vow­ing to ad­dress long-stand­ing sys­temic is­sues with­in the RHA. 

Two 25-year-old men who live next door to each oth­er in Bushe Street, San Juan, were in­jured dur­ing a shoot­ing on Fri­day night.

An In­de­pen­dent Com­mit­tee has be­gun in­ves­ti­gat­ing the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the death of six-year-old Yash­er Fran­cois, as rel­a­tives con­firmed the sec­ond au­top­sy has been resched­uled for Sun­day.

Steel­pan Month hits full stride this week­end with a packed line-up of mu­sic, cul­ture, and cel­e­bra­tion across the coun­try. From To­ba­go’s big panora­ma launch to youth per­for­mances in the heart of Port of Spain, here’s your guide to where the sweet sounds will be ring­ing out.