Prince An­drew said Fri­day he is giv­ing up his roy­al ti­tle of the Duke of York and oth­er ho­n­ours af­ter his friend­ship with sex of­fend­er Jef­frey Ep­stein re­turned to the head­lines.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) is warn­ing the pub­lic that elec­tric­i­ty lines on trans­mis­sion tow­ers are en­er­gised with up to 220,000 volts and com­ing in­to con­tact with or even close to these lines can re­sult in death by elec­tro­cu­tion.

Unit­ed States War Sec­re­tary, Pe­te Hegseth, says the com­man­der head­ing US counter-nar­cotics op­er­a­tions in the Caribbean will re­tire by year’s end.

The U.S. has seized sur­vivors af­ter a strike Thurs­day on a sus­pect­ed drug-car­ry­ing ves­sel in the Caribbean, the first since Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump be­gan launch­ing dead­ly at­tacks in the re­gion this sum­mer, ac­cord­ing to a de­fense of­fi­cial and an­oth­er per­son fa­mil­iar with the mat­ter.

While mo­torists ex­pect­ed to be stopped for tick­ets, they were in­stead hand­ed Di­vali sweets, food, and drinks along the St Mary’s Main Road in Moru­ga on Thurs­day night.

Two ban­dits robbed a woman of thou­sands of dol­lars worth of gold jew­ellery as she walked to her car in Wood­brook on Thurs­day night.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) is mon­i­tor­ing an ac­tive Trop­i­cal Wave in the Cen­tral Trop­i­cal At­lantic, ap­prox­i­mate­ly 2,300 kilo­me­tres east of the South­ern Wind­ward is­lands.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the ab­duc­tion of a 40-year-old woman in the Beetham on Thurs­day night.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pene­lope Beck­les has ex­pressed deep con­cern for Trinidad and To­ba­go’s fish­er­men fol­low­ing a re­cent Unit­ed States mil­i­tary strike on ves­sels al­leged­ly linked to nar­co-ter­ror­ism.

A 51-year-old woman, her son and five grand­chil­dren es­caped their San­gre Grande home af­ter it was fire­bombed ear­ly Thurs­day morn­ing.

A range of com­mon­ly used food prod­ucts, in­clud­ing ta­ble salt, mau­by, co­coa pow­der, vanil­la essence and lo­cal fruit pre­serves, will to­day be ex­empt from Val­ue Added Tax (VAT) un­der a new gov­ern­ment or­der.

The Gov­ern­ment has al­lo­cat­ed $7 mil­lion to wind up the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP).