Aus­tralian out­fit BHP has con­firmed that it’s re­cent search for oil in Trinidad and To­ba­go’ deep wa­ter end­ed in fail­ure with the Broad­side-1 well be­ing a dry hole.

The Mon­key Town Pub­lic Ceme­tery Gar­den of Rest was this week dam­aged and turned in­to “a gar­den of un­rest and dis­re­spect” as about 20 graves were in­dis­crim­i­nate­ly dug up and the dead dis­turbed.

A High Court Judge has stopped the de­por­ta­tion of two Venezue­lan women and two chil­dren, who have im­mi­gra­tion cas­es pend­ing. 

A High Court Judge has de­ferred her de­ci­sion on a stay of the tri­al of two men ac­cused of the bru­tal mur­der of Sean Luke. 

Just over a year af­ter a 51-year-old school dri­ver al­leged­ly com­mit­ted sex­u­al touch­ing of a 13-year-old girl he ap­peared in court yes­ter­day for the crime.

The po­lit­i­cal leader of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Dr Kei­th Row­ley told Tra­cy David­son-Ce­les­tine he ap­proves of the Main Ridge For­est zi­pline project and wants her to con­tin­ue it, af­ter the Jan­u­ary 25 To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tions.

The PDP’s deputy po­lit­i­cal leader Far­ley Au­gus­tine has promised the dis­par­i­ty in the cost of liv­ing be­tween To­ba­go and Trinidad will be one of the key ar­eas ad­dressed when the Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots take the reigns of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly.

The area of Par­latu­vi­er/L’Anse Four­mi/Spey­side is one of the prized two seats, the then new­ly formed Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) prised out of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) hands in the 2017 THA elec­tions. The oth­er is Rox­bor­ough/De­laford elec­toral dis­trict.

A Ch­agua­nas bar was closed down for vi­o­lat­ing sev­er­al health and safe­ty reg­u­la­tions yes­ter­day.

A Ch­agua­nas bar was closed down for sev­er­al health and safe­ty in­fringe­ments.
Of­fi­cers at­tached to the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion along with Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health Au­thor­i­ty per­son­nel, went to the bar at Rail­way Road, Ch­agua­nas around 1.30 pm, on Jan­u­ary 21st.
Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, they served Pro­hi­bi­tion No­tices to the man­ag­er of the es­tab­lish­ment with in­struc­tions to im­me­di­ate­ly halt op­er­a­tions due to the health and safe­ty in­fringe­ments. The bar was im­me­di­ate­ly shut down.
The es­tab­lish­ment had been pre­vi­ous­ly in­spect­ed by Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Of­fi­cers, Cus­toms and Ex­cise per­son­nel and Trinidad and To­ba­go Fire Ser­vices per­son­nel in the pres­ence of the man­ag­er. Dur­ing the in­spec­tion, mul­ti­ple health and safe­ty is­sues were iden­ti­fied and brought them to the at­ten­tion of the own­er.

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 20 new COVID cas­es bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 343. The death toll stands at 133. There are 41 pa­tients at hos­pi­tal one of which is in ICU. The fol­low­ing is a graph­ic pro­vid­ed by the Min­istry of Health:

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is seek­ing the ur­gent as­sis­tance of the pub­lic in lo­cat­ing 15-year-old Dar­ius Pitt.
Dar­ius, of Laven­tille Road, San Juan, was last seen at his home at 8 pm on Jan­u­ary 13th. He was re­port­ed miss­ing to the San Juan Po­lice Sta­tion at 7.20 pm on Jan­u­ary 20th by a rel­a­tive. Dar­ius, is of African de­scent, and slim build, with a light brown com­plex­ion.