Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has an­nounced that the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has been grant­ed a one-year mora­to­ri­um by the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA), tem­porar­i­ly avert­ing a po­ten­tial $35 mil­lion an­nu­al fine for non-com­pli­ance at the Beetham Waste­water Treat­ment Plant.

What rel­a­tives ini­tial­ly be­lieved was a nat­ur­al death has turned in­to a mur­der in­ves­ti­ga­tion, fol­low­ing the re­sults of an au­top­sy of 75-year-old Nardeo Bachan con­duct­ed last week.

Port-of-Spain May­or Chin­ua Al­leyne’s an­nounce­ment that part of Ox­ford Street will be re­named af­ter renowned Black Pow­er civ­il rights leader Kwame Ture (born Stoke­ly Carmichael) is a change in tune for the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM).

Po­lice of­fi­cers as­signed to the Spe­cial Vic­tims De­part­ment at the North-Cen­tral and North­ern Di­vi­sions say they have no­ticed an in­crease in the num­ber of men com­ing for­ward to re­port do­mes­tic vi­o­lence.

Af­ter a High Court judge ruled that it was rea­son­able for at­tor­neys vis­it­ing men held at Teteron Bar­racks to have their eyes cov­ered, the at­tor­neys re­vealed that their clients have bags placed over their heads be­fore le­gal meet­ings.

Tears flowed on the banks of the Matu­ra Riv­er yes­ter­day morn­ing as coast guard divers re­cov­ered the body of Tara Lochans­ingh, who drowned on Eman­ci­pa­tion Day.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has an­nounced that the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has been grant­ed a one-year mora­to­ri­um by the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA), tem­porar­i­ly avoid­ing a po­ten­tial $35 mil­lion an­nu­al fine for non-com­pli­ance at the Beetham Waste­water Treat­ment Plant.

Hun­dreds of thou­sands of young Catholics poured in­to a vast field on Rome’s out­skirts Sat­ur­day for the week­end high­light of the Vat­i­can’s 2025 Holy Year: an evening vig­il, out­door slum­ber par­ty and morn­ing Mass cel­e­brat­ed by Pope Leo XIV that marks his first big en­counter with the next gen­er­a­tion of Catholics.

Of­fi­cers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice con­duct­ing a Cannabis Erad­i­ca­tion Op­er­a­tion be­tween 6 am and 8 am on Thurs­day in Mo­ri­ah, To­ba­go, dis­cov­ered and de­stroyed an es­ti­mat­ed $125,000 worth of cannabis.

An un­em­ployed Laven­tille man was mur­dered on Fri­day night in a sus­pect­ed gang re­lat­ed shoot­ing.

The Hunters Search and Res­cue Team post­ed news of the dis­cov­ery on its Face­book page, say­ing the Coast Guard divers had re­trieved the body.

Is­raeli forces opened fire near two aid dis­tri­b­u­tion sites run by the Is­raeli-backed Gaza Hu­man­i­tar­i­an Foun­da­tion as crowds of hun­gry Pales­tini­ans again sought food, killing at least 10 peo­ple, wit­ness­es and health work­ers said Sat­ur­day — a day af­ter U.S. of­fi­cials vis­it­ed a GHF site and the U.S. am­bas­sador called the trou­bled sys­tem “an in­cred­i­ble feat.”