A 64-year-old woman from Ch­agua­nas, con­vict­ed of or­der­ing a “hit” on her es­tranged hus­band that al­so re­sult­ed in his new love in­ter­est be­ing mur­dered, has been re­leased af­ter serv­ing a lit­tle over 28 years in prison.

Po­lit­i­cal ac­tivist and for­mer Pro­gres­sive Em­pow­er­ment Par­ty (PEP) po­lit­i­cal leader Phillip Alexan­der has emerged vic­to­ri­ous in his ap­peal over be­ing or­dered by a judge to pay al­most $775,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to busi­ness­man An­drew Gabriel for defama­tion.

The fu­ner­al for the late Mar­tin Ter­ry Ron­don, for­mer chair­man of the San­gre Grande Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion and coun­cil­lor for Va­len­cia East/To­co will take place on Wednes­day.

For more than a year res­i­dents of Sea Scape Apart­ments, John Street, Co­corite, have been liv­ing in fear that a land­slide at the back of their apart­ments will come crash­ing down.

The Sanatan Dhar­ma Ma­ha Sab­ha (SDMS) has re­quest­ed the dis­clo­sure of doc­u­ments re­lat­ed to a law­suit which re­sult­ed in the re­in­state­ment of a long-serv­ing teacher, who turned down a pro­mo­tion to be a prin­ci­pal of one of its pri­ma­ry schools due to her daugh­ter’s med­ical con­di­tion be­fore hav­ing a change of heart days lat­er.

The prop­er­ty own­er lived up­stairs the home at Al­ma Street, off Lums­den Street, Gas­par­il­lo, with her nine-year-old daugh­ter and her daugh­ter’s grand­moth­er. Ten­ants Ster­ling McEachrane, 44, and his com­mon-law-wife Kem­ba Lewis, 31, had been rent­ing the down­stairs apart­ment for two years.

The North West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NWRHA) has lost its ap­peal over a judge’s de­ci­sion to or­der com­pen­sa­tion to one of its em­ploy­ees, who was shot in her face dur­ing a shoot­ing at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, al­most a decade ago.

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo ORTT has chal­lenged mem­bers of the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty to of­fer them­selves to serve on state boards, com­mis­sions and tri­bunals.

The daugh­ter of a To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) sec­re­tary was among the Form Two stu­dents in­volved in the fight at Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary School where ap­prox­i­mate­ly 20 stu­dents vi­cious­ly beat an­oth­er fe­male stu­dent last Fri­day.

​A near­ly 30-year fight has end­ed as the Loss and Dam­age Fund has been adopt­ed at COP28, the in­ter­na­tion­al cli­mate con­fer­ence un­der­way in Dubai, the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates.

Pupils from four pri­ma­ry schools joined Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo at Pres­i­dent’s House on Thurs­day to read and dis­cuss the themes of en­vi­ron­men­tal con­ser­va­tion.

In the span of six months, Mer­cedez Milling­ton evolved from an in­tro­vert at the St Jude’s School for Girls to now con­sid­er­ing a fu­ture in broad­cast jour­nal­ism. Milling­ton was one of 30 peo­ple, most­ly mi­nors, from var­i­ous chil­dren’s homes who grad­u­at­ed from the in­au­gur­al Train­ing for Self Suf­fi­cien­cy pro­gramme spear­head­ed by the Gen­der and Child Af­fairs Di­vi­sion.