Po­lice said of­fi­cers at­tached to the North­ern Di­vi­sion were on mo­bile pa­trol along Main­got and Fair­ley Streets around 8 pm when they re­spond­ed to a re­port of as­sault.

As Cu­ba grap­ples with an on­go­ing fu­el cri­sis, state-owned Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) says it will con­tin­ue to op­er­ate its week­ly flight to Ha­vana, that coun­try’s cap­i­tal.

In a jaw-drop­ping fin­ish that kept Moru­ga on edge un­til the fi­nal strike, King of the Rock cham­pi­on Sel­wyn John emerged vic­to­ri­ous af­ter fac­ing off against his nephew, An­der­son Mar­cano, in a bru­tal, blood-soaked cham­pi­onship bout at the Na­tion­al Stick­fight­ing Fi­nals.

Arch­bish­op Ja­son Gor­don is con­demn­ing mas band Tribe for dis­trib­ut­ing sex toys in good­ie bags to its fe­male mas­quer­aders. And he says if Car­ni­val con­tin­ues to slip in­to this type of “he­do­nism,” the Gov­ern­ment should step in and reg­u­late, par­tic­u­lar­ly Car­ni­val Mon­day and Tues­day, if mas bands fail to do so.

Eleven-year-old Janaya Clark is this year’s Na­tion­al Ju­nior Ca­lyp­so Monarch win­ner. She lift­ed the ti­tle fol­low­ing a spir­it­ed per­for­mance of her song, Role Mod­els, at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day.

As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (ACP) Garvin Hen­ry, who over­sees the North-West area in­clud­ing the Port-of-Spain and West­ern Di­vi­sions, said that de­spite se­vere traf­fic con­ges­tion fol­low­ing the Stink + Dut­ty fete ear­ly Sat­ur­day, mea­sures were de­ployed to mit­i­gate the dis­rup­tion.

PNM deputy po­lit­i­cal leader San­jiv Bood­hu has ex­pressed con­cern over the pas­sage of the Gov­ern­ment’s Bail Amend­ment Bill 2026 by a sim­ple ma­jor­i­ty, rather than the re­quired spe­cial ma­jor­i­ty, warn­ing that its pro­vi­sions may face le­gal chal­lenges in the courts.

To­ba­go’s tourism sec­tor is be­gin­ning to re­cov­er from re­cent trans­port dis­rup­tions, ac­cord­ing to Rene Seep­er­sads­ingh, first vice pres­i­dent of the To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion.

For­mer pub­lic util­i­ties min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les has ac­cused cur­rent Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath of us­ing a re­cent state­ment on fix­ing leaks at the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate as a po­lit­i­cal dis­trac­tion from what Gon­za­les de­scribed as cost­ly em­ploy­ment prac­tices at the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA).

Search­es con­tin­ued yes­ter­day for 17-year-old Gabriel Nel­son, who is be­lieved to have drowned in Ma­yaro on Sun­day. The Form Five stu­dent of St Stephen’s Col­lege was pulled un­der by a rip cur­rent while bathing at Grand La­goon.

A woman who re­mained the reg­is­tered own­er of a ve­hi­cle af­ter sell­ing it has suc­cess­ful­ly de­fend­ed a law­suit aris­ing from a se­ri­ous ac­ci­dent that oc­curred years af­ter she re­lin­quished pos­ses­sion.

Well Ser­vices Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Ltd has of­fi­cial­ly called off the search for the re­mains of rig work­er Pe­te Phillip. In a state­ment re­leased yes­ter­day, the com­pa­ny said that fol­low­ing the Rig 110 in­ci­dent on De­cem­ber 22, 2024, an ex­ten­sive and high­ly co­or­di­nat­ed sal­vage and re­cov­ery op­er­a­tion by both lo­cal and for­eign ex­perts be­gan on Jan­u­ary 13, 2025, as part of Phase 2 op­er­a­tions.