Yes­ter­day, most of Trinidad awoke to heavy rain­fall and gusty winds in some ar­eas due to the con­ver­gence of winds in the low­er lev­els of the at­mos­phere, cou­pled with favourable up­per lev­el con­di­tions, en­hanc­ing the al­ready un­sta­ble set­up.

Ch­agua­nas May­or, Faaiq Mo­hammed, is blam­ing the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment ad­min­is­tra­tion for the per­sis­tent flood­ing which oc­curs in the bor­ough.

Crim­i­nol­o­gist Dr Randy Seep­er­sad says he is not wor­ried that the im­pend­ing de­por­ta­tion of 21 na­tion­als from the Unit­ed States will pose a na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty threat to T&T.

Rel­a­tives of 25-year-old fruit ven­dor Ju­nior Ville Blair, who was shot dead in his Point Fortin home on Sat­ur­day night, do not be­lieve rob­bery was the pri­ma­ry mo­tive for his killing.

De­spite heavy rains, scores of peo­ple turned up to re­ceive life-chang­ing sup­port at a wheel­chair dis­tri­b­u­tion event host­ed by Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor of Janouras Cus­tom De­sign Ltd, Han­nah Janoura.

A woman suc­cumbed to in­juries sus­tained dur­ing a ve­hic­u­lar ac­ci­dent which oc­curred two weeks ago.

A 22-year-old man was fa­tal­ly shot by po­lice of­fi­cers dur­ing an armed con­fronta­tion ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing in Mal­ick, fol­low­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to a re­port­ed shoot­ing in San Juan hours ear­li­er.

A dis­pute over un­paid en­trance fees at the Ar­gyle Wa­ter­fall in To­ba­go end­ed with a man be­ing chopped dur­ing a con­fronta­tion on Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon.

To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) po­lit­i­cal leader Far­ley Au­gus­tine has asked mem­bers of his par­ty to get ready for the next THA elec­tion, even though no date has been an­nounced. He’s al­so ad­vised the TPP’s two MPs to stay on the ground and not get dis­tract­ed by pow­er in Port-of-Spain.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing, Phillip Alexan­der, has slammed Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment PRO Faris Al-Rawi’s post-elec­tion as­sess­ment as “non­sense.”

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress Gov­ern­ment is stick­ing to its promise not to in­crease elec­tric­i­ty rates, thus far.

Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Roodal Mooni­lal has high­light­ed some of his min­istry’s ar­eas of fo­cus for the coun­try’s en­er­gy sec­tor, in­clud­ing the re-emer­gence of T&T as the “en­er­gy leader of the Caribbean” by lever­ag­ing his­to­ry, knowl­edge and peo­ple.