New­ly elect­ed vice pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Cross So­ci­ety (TTRCS), Ed­ward Mood­ie, says the or­gan­i­sa­tion cur­rent­ly has no mon­ey.

A man was fa­tal­ly shot at the Val­park Shop­ping Plaza in Val­sayn on Wednes­day night. Po­lice have iden­ti­fied him as Miguel Lawrence, 36, of Hol­ly­wood Road, Fan­ny Vil­lage, Point Fortin.

Po­lice are search­ing for a sus­pect seen flee­ing from a car in which a Waller­field man was found dead on Wednes­day night.

King Charles III on Thurs­day stripped his dis­graced broth­er Prince An­drew of his re­main­ing ti­tles and evict­ed him from his roy­al res­i­dence af­ter weeks of pres­sure to act over his re­la­tion­ship with sex of­fend­er Jef­frey Ep­stein.

Dig­i­cel Trinidad and To­ba­go has an­nounced that all calls to Ja­maica are free of charge in the af­ter­math of Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa, which caused wide­spread dam­age across the is­land.

The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) has tak­en ac­tion to stop the planned “Ca­roni Krab Dash – Flat Bot­tom and Small Boat Race” fol­low­ing an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to its po­ten­tial en­vi­ron­men­tal im­pact on the Ca­roni Swamp.

Sev­er­al po­lice of­fi­cers say they have not yet re­ceived their Oc­to­ber salaries and are call­ing for an ur­gent ex­pla­na­tion from the au­thor­i­ties.

A 15-year-old La Ro­maine High School stu­dent was hos­pi­talised in crit­i­cal con­di­tion on Tues­day af­ter he and four school­mates re­port­ed­ly in­gest­ed an un­known sub­stance.

The Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go has mo­bilised a co­or­di­nat­ed na­tion­al re­lief ef­fort to sup­port Ja­maica fol­low­ing the dev­as­ta­tion caused by Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to two mur­ders in Waller­field and Val­sayn be­tween last night and ear­ly to­day.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) will in­ject an ad­di­tion­al $300 mil­lion in­to de­vel­op­ment projects next year, rais­ing its de­vel­op­ment bud­get to $501 mil­lion while keep­ing all oth­er spend­ing at 2025 lev­els.

As Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa moves in­to the At­lantic and be­gins to weak­en, res­i­dents of Ja­maica are strug­gling to com­pre­hend the ex­tent of the death and de­struc­tion she has caused.