So­cial work­ers have been as­signed to work with the fam­i­ly mem­bers of the St Stephen’s Col­lege Form Four stu­dent, who re­cent­ly died of sui­cide.

The Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) has giv­en in­struc­tions to charge two per­sons in re­la­tion to the abuse of a one-year-old ba­by, the Po­lice Ser­vice has con­firmed.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly is ask­ing the pub­lic to be re­spon­si­ble in their com­ments and ac­tions in re­sponse to the death of 15-year-old Jay­den Lalchan. Fol­low­ing al­le­ga­tions that he took his own life on Oc­to­ber 3 be­cause he was be­ing bul­lied at school, there has been out­rage and sad­ness on so­cial me­dia. Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has al­so called for jus­tice to be served.

Is­raelis held somber cer­e­monies Mon­day to mark a year since the dead­liest at­tack in the coun­try’s his­to­ry, a Hamas-led raid that shat­tered its sense of se­cu­ri­ty and has since spi­raled in­to wars on two fronts with no end in sight.

The Unit­ed States Am­bas­sadors to Bar­ba­dos and the East­ern Caribbean, Guyana, and Suri­name will vis­it Trinidad and To­ba­go from Oc­to­ber 8-12, 2024.

A 34-year-old man was crushed to death on Sun­day af­ter­noon by a truck he was re­pair­ing at the time.

LAT­EST: Mil­ton rapid­ly strength­ened in­to a Cat­e­go­ry 5 hur­ri­cane, the strongest lev­el, in the Gulf of Mex­i­co on Mon­day on a path to­ward Flori­da.  Mil­ton had max­i­mum sus­tained winds of 160 mph (250 kph), the Na­tion­al Hur­ri­cane Cen­ter said.

The Seis­mic Re­search Cen­tre (SRC) at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies record­ed an earth­quake in T&T at 8:21 am.

Prime Min­is­ter Gar­ry Conille is on a vis­it to Kenya and the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates (UAE) with se­cu­ri­ty of the French-speak­ing Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) coun­try high on his agen­da.

There are hills of rub­ble where apart­ment blocks stood, and pools of sewage-taint­ed wa­ter spread­ing dis­ease.

Aaron Jones and Ros­ton Chase's part­ner­ship of 88 runs off 53 balls high­light­ed a thrilling end to the 2024 Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) fi­nal that pow­ered the Saint Lu­cia Kings to the ti­tle with a six-wick­et vic­to­ry over Guyana Ama­zon War­riors with 11 balls re­main­ing at the Na­tion­al Sta­di­um in Prov­i­dence, Guyana last night. 

The moth­er of teenag­er Jay­den Lalchan who end­ed his life on Oc­to­ber 3 fol­low­ing an al­leged bul­ly­ing in­ci­dent at school, is not hap­py with how school of­fi­cials han­dled their com­plaints.