The Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) Moth­er’s Day Pop-Up Shop drew large crowds at the Cen­tre of Ex­cel­lence in Ma­coya over the week­end, with or­gan­is­ers say­ing the event has al­ready out­grown the venue due to over­whelm­ing de­mand.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has pushed back against Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, say­ing she has no moral au­thor­i­ty to ad­vise her on in­ter­nal par­ty mat­ters, as she de­fend­ed her de­ci­sion to stage a walk­out from Par­lia­ment on Fri­day.

The clo­sure of sev­er­al Caribbean me­dia hous­es has high­light­ed the ur­gent need to strength­en sus­tain­able busi­ness mod­els as jour­nal­ism across the re­gion faces mount­ing pres­sure on mul­ti­ple fronts.

Crim­i­nol­o­gists have praised po­lice for what they de­scribed as a de­ci­sive show of force in Cunu­pia, where a home in­va­sion es­ca­lat­ed in­to a chase and shootout that left four sus­pects dead and two oth­ers in cus­tody.

Flow rolled in­to Ce­dros with a clear pitch to close the dig­i­tal gap and bring op­por­tu­ni­ty with­in reach.

Man­ches­ter Unit­ed great Alex Fer­gu­son was tak­en to the hos­pi­tal af­ter feel­ing un­well ahead of his for­mer team’s Pre­mier League game against Liv­er­pool on Sun­day.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les says Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and her Gov­ern­ment must al­so an­swer se­ri­ous ques­tions, as she re­spond­ed to ac­cu­sa­tions that the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment is con­trolled by out­side in­ter­ests.

A Siparia man is dead af­ter a fa­tal crash along the Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way in the ear­ly hours of Sun­day morn­ing.

A se­nior po­lice of­fi­cer says he is heart­ened by the sup­port and con­sid­er­a­tion ex­tend­ed to of­fi­cers by Cunu­pia res­i­dents as they ini­ti­at­ed a man­hunt against ban­dits.

As the Caribbean lags be­hind the rest of the world in adopt­ing re­new­able forms of en­er­gy, the In­ter­na­tion­al Re­new­able En­er­gy Agency (IRE­NA) will launch a Latin Ame­ca and Caribbean ini­tia­tive this Oc­to­ber.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar spent part of her Sat­ur­day at­tend­ing the Air Sup­ply con­cert.

A ten-page whistle­blow­er re­port out­lin­ing con­cerns with­in First Cit­i­zens, in par­tic­u­lar the con­duct and ac­tions of Deputy Chair­man Dr Ster­ling Frost, has been sub­mit­ted to its Board of Di­rec­tors for ur­gent ac­tion.