Res­i­dents and her­itage ad­vo­cates in Palmiste are step­ping up ef­forts to pre­serve the Cedar Grove chim­ney, one of south Trinidad’s last sug­ar es­tate relics, as they or­gan­ise a pe­ti­tion urg­ing au­thor­i­ties to save the 200-year-old struc­ture.

Colour and ex­cite­ment filled the Aranguez Sa­van­nah yes­ter­day as Phag­wa cel­e­bra­tions were host­ed, bring­ing to­geth­er tra­di­tion, com­mu­ni­ty and uni­ty.

Par­tic­i­pants were drenched in vi­brant colours and laugh­ter as the Pan­davas Group host­ed Phag­wa cel­e­bra­tions at Palmiste Park, San Fer­nan­do yes­ter­day.

A man has been or­dered to pay a lit­tle over $100,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to two women who were in­jured af­ter his teenage daugh­ter crashed in­to them while dri­ving his car. 

A man from South Oropouche has been ac­quit­ted of caus­ing the death of a teenag­er by dan­ger­ous dri­ving over two decades ago.

The num­ber of child abuse al­le­ga­tions na­tion­wide on a month­ly ba­sis has re­mained gen­er­al­ly con­sis­tent, ac­cord­ing to of­fi­cials in the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty, as they stress the need for a so­ci­etal ap­proach to pro­tect­ing chil­dren.

Homi­cide of­fi­cers, along with per­son­nel from the An­ti-Kid­nap­ping Unit (AKU), were called to Tyri­co Beach at Mara­cas Bay yes­ter­day morn­ing, af­ter a body was dis­cov­ered in some bush­es.

A Ch­agua­nas man was ar­rest­ed by po­lice at a bar along the Ca­roni Sa­van­nah Road on Sat­ur­day night, af­ter he was held with an il­le­gal firearm.

De­spite try­ing to fight off an as­sailant who at­tacked him ear­ly Sat­ur­day morn­ing in Mara­bel­la, a 42-year-old man was un­able to pre­vent the thief from es­cap­ing with jew­ellery val­ued at $70,000.

Po­lice in the Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion are search­ing for a sus­pect who re­port­ed­ly shot at of­fi­cers on Sat­ur­day night.

Four sus­pects, in­clud­ing a teenag­er, were ar­rest­ed at a house in Tu­na­puna on Sat­ur­day, af­ter po­lice dis­cov­ered a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing ten rounds of am­mu­ni­tion hid­den in a bed­room.

Five sus­pects, in­clud­ing one mi­nor, were ar­rest­ed and a firearm, two mag­a­zines and quan­ti­ties of drugs and am­mu­ni­tion seized dur­ing on­go­ing week­end State of Emer­gency op­er­a­tions in the Cen­tral and North Cen­tral Di­vi­sions.