Pres­i­dent Ir­faan Ali an­nounced Sat­ur­day that some 20,000 acres of new farm­land on the Es­se­qui­bo coast, Re­gion Two will be­come avail­able for small-scale farm­ers to ad­dress the long-stand­ing is­sue of high rental costs.

Many of Adid­ja “Vy­bz Kar­tel” Palmer fans were sore­ly dis­ap­point­ed yes­ter­day when the dance­hall star failed to take the stage, so in­stead one woman took it up­on her­self to take the stage.

Months of an­tic­i­pa­tion and plan­ning came to an an­ti-cli­mac­tic end on Sun­day morn­ing as scores of pa­trons of the One Caribbean Mu­sic (OCM) fes­ti­val left the show's venue - the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah - in no­tice­ably low­er spir­its than when they ar­rived.

At least 31 peo­ple were killed and over 150 were wound­ed on Sun­day while on their way to re­ceive food in the Gaza Strip, ac­cord­ing to health of­fi­cials and mul­ti­ple wit­ness­es. The wit­ness­es said Is­raeli forces fired on crowds around a kilo­me­tre (1,000 yards) from an aid site run by an Is­raeli-backed foun­da­tion.

Four peo­ple, in­clud­ing a child, died on Sat­ur­day night af­ter the dri­ver of a ve­hi­cle lost con­trol and crashed off the south­bound lane of the Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way near the Clax­ton Bay over­pass.

The much-an­tic­i­pat­ed ap­pear­ance of Adid­ja “Vy­bz Kar­tel” Palmer at the sold-out One Caribbean Mu­sic Fes­ti­val at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah (QPS) in Port-of-Spain end­ed in dis­ap­point­ment yes­ter­day, as the dance­hall star failed to take the stage.

As the sun set yes­ter­day evening, un­cer­tain­ty rose among those at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah as to what the sta­tus of the One Caribbean Mu­sic Fes­ti­val con­cert was in the af­ter­math of its main act, Adid­ja Palmer—pro­fes­sion­al­ly known as Vy­bz Kar­tel—pulling out due to con­trac­tu­al dis­crep­an­cies.

The new bil­lion-dol­lar, state-of-the-art Cen­tral Block at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal was in­tend­ed to pro­vide more func­tion­al, safe, and ef­fi­cient health­care de­liv­ery to the pop­u­la­tion.

For more than six decades, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Cross So­ci­ety (TTRCS) has stood as a sym­bol of hu­man­i­tar­i­an strength, de­liv­er­ing vi­tal sup­port through its dis­as­ter re­sponse, mi­gra­tion as­sis­tance, and First Aid pro­grammes.

Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen has warned Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment rep­re­sen­ta­tives that they have a ma­jor role to play as the coun­try grap­ples with the ef­fects of cli­mate change.

In an at­tempt to ex­plain his pres­ence at the head of­fice of his for­mer min­istry and to clear his name of al­leged mis­con­duct, Fitzger­ald Hinds now claims he was asked to vis­it the build­ing sole­ly to col­lect a cheque.

The Gov­ern­ment is ac­tive­ly work­ing to set­tle out­stand­ing pay­ments to sup­pli­ers in the health sec­tor, says Dr Rishad Seecher­an, Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Health and Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Ca­roni East.