Scores of res­i­dents of Fort George in St James were strand­ed for al­most 12 hours af­ter a sud­den land­slide on Christ­mas af­ter­noon.

The Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of Com­merce is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to take steps to re­store pub­lic trust in law en­force­ment, even as the mur­der toll con­tin­ues its trou­bling climb over the record 600 mark.

Shop­ping cen­tres in South Trinidad were yes­ter­day bustling with shop­pers seek­ing to cash in on the tra­di­tion­al Box­ing Day sales.

Smiles and shin­ing eyes lit up Christ­mas morn­ing as Shaz­ara Mo­hammed and her four chil­dren cel­e­brat­ed in their new­ly-com­plet­ed home.

Hun­dreds of cit­i­zens in search of a bar­gain flocked to re­tail stores across north Trinidad for Box­ing Day sales yes­ter­day.

Con­gress of the Peo­ple in­ter­im chair­man Lons­dale Williams has ad­vised that the fi­nan­cial state­ments of the par­ty sought by Prakash Ra­mad­har will be of­fi­cial­ly re­quest­ed at the par­ty’s next ex­ec­u­tive meet­ing, as the pub­lic spat be­tween the two con­tin­ues.

Po­lice be­lieve that the burnt re­mains of a man found in the trunk of a car yes­ter­day, are those of miss­ing San­gre Grande res­i­dent Dane Ho­sein Jr.

The ma­jor events that rocked Trinidad and To­ba­go in the third month of this year could make for an award-win­ning TV se­ries.

Some flights were de­layed or can­celled in Texas on Thurs­day af­ter a line of thun­der­storms start­ed mov­ing across parts of the state in a sys­tem the Na­tion­al Weath­er Ser­vice pre­dict­ed could bring high winds, hail and pos­si­ble tor­na­does.

Se­vere rain­fall over the past 72 hours has dev­as­tat­ed sec­tions of this French-speak­ing Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) mem­ber state, re­sult­ing in 13 deaths, 15 in­juries, one miss­ing per­son, and sig­nif­i­cant prop­er­ty dam­age.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a Christ­mas shoot­ing at Sky Har­bor Air­port in Phoenix that left three peo­ple in­jured by gun­fire and an­oth­er per­son stabbed.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Kei­th Scot­land did not make any ex­cus­es for him­self or the TTPS as he ex­pressed dis­sat­is­fac­tion over T&T’s mur­der count, which as of Christ­mas morn­ing was 610.  In fact he said both he and all po­lice of­fi­cers need­ed to work hard­er to ad­dress the crime sit­u­a­tion.