Pen­sion­ers Ber­nice James-Roach, 77, and her hus­band Hol­lis­ter Roach, 84, ex­pect­ed their Or­chid Gar­dens apart­ment in Pleas­antville to be a place where they could en­joy their re­tire­ment.

As To­ba­go pre­pares for an in­flux of vis­i­tors when the new ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port ter­mi­nal opens, all eyes are on the culi­nary and hos­pi­tal­i­ty sec­tors to el­e­vate their stan­dards. With the de­mands on the ser­vice providers ex­pect­ed to in­crease, the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) has iden­ti­fied cus­tomer ser­vice as cru­cial to en­sur­ing vis­i­tors have a pos­i­tive ex­pe­ri­ence.

One thou­sand and twen­ty-two pounds of plas­tic bot­tles, wrap­pers, glass bot­tles and oth­er forms of do­mes­tic garbage were pulled out from the man­grove for­est on the banks of the Cunu­pia Riv­er on Sat­ur­day.

Two Trinidad and To­ba­go mar­itime ex­perts have been ap­point­ed to the Com­mis­sion of En­quiry es­tab­lished by Guyana Pres­i­dent Dr Ir­faan Ali to in­ves­ti­gate the cap­siz­ing and sink­ing of the MV Bari­ma.

A 45-year-old Barataria woman was hos­pi­talised af­ter she was beat­en by ban­dits dur­ing a home in­va­sion on Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon.

Two 18-year-olds were among three sus­pects held in con­nec­tion with a home in­va­sion in which a quan­ti­ty of valu­ables and cash was stolen from a fam­i­ly at their Kel­ly Vil­lage home on Fri­day night.

A boat al­leged­ly trans­port­ing cop­per il­le­gal­ly to Venezuela over­turned in rough seas off south Trinidad late Fri­day night, leav­ing one Venezue­lan man dead while two oth­ers sur­vived.

An au­dio record­ing ref­er­enced in an af­fi­davit filed in the High Court on Fri­day by Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der is now at the cen­tre of an es­ca­lat­ing pub­lic de­bate over the con­tin­ued de­ten­tion of 69-year-old busi­ness­woman Star Sab­ga un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO).

As his voice cracked with emo­tion, for­mer House Speak­er Nizam Mo­hammed called on at­tor­neys to unite and form a con­sor­tium to fight for the re­lease of over 200 cit­i­zens who re­main in­car­cer­at­ed un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders dur­ing the State of Emer­gency (SoE).

The An­ju­man Sun­nat ul Ja­maat As­so­ci­a­tion Inc. (AS­JA) has ex­pressed dis­ap­point­ment over Trinidad and To­ba­go's re­cent vote at the Unit­ed Na­tions con­cern­ing the reap­point­ment of the UN High Com­mis­sion­er for Hu­man Rights, say­ing it ap­pears to mark a de­par­ture from this coun­try's long­stand­ing sup­port for the Pales­tin­ian peo­ple.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s two largest busi­ness or­gan­i­sa­tions have wel­comed the re­duc­tion in Unit­ed States tar­iffs on lo­cal ex­ports, de­scrib­ing the move as a boost for ex­porters while warn­ing that busi­ness­es must con­tin­ue mon­i­tor­ing an in­creas­ing­ly un­cer­tain glob­al trad­ing en­vi­ron­ment.

On Ju­ly 18, 14 men car­ried out the largest es­cape in the his­to­ry of the Aripo Im­mi­gra­tion De­ten­tion Cen­tre (IDC) with a small fire.