Five days af­ter his en­tire herd of pigs was culled and buried due to an out­break of Porcine Re­pro­duc­tive and Res­pi­ra­to­ry Syn­drome (PRRS), Waller­field farmer Bri­an Ma­turine says he is still wait­ing on word from the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture about com­pen­sa­tion to restart his busi­ness.

The gov­ern­ment is ex­pect­ed to save at least $2.6 mil­lion af­ter can­celling this year’s In­de­pen­dence Day pa­rade and fire­works dis­play in the cap­i­tal.

With his voice break­ing un­der the weight of de­spair as he eu­lo­gised his younger son Jash­er, Aaron Fran­cois plead­ed with the na­tion—es­pe­cial­ly health­care prac­ti­tion­ers—to car­ry out their du­ties with dili­gence and care.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment to re­lease all avail­able in­for­ma­tion on why it can­celled this year’s In­de­pen­dence Day pa­rade and fire­works, say­ing the pub­lic de­serves full trans­paren­cy.

What be­gan as a brief stop be­fore a fam­i­ly trip to Mara­cas Beach end­ed in tragedy yes­ter­day morn­ing when 65-year-old Su­san Mad­ra­no-St Louis was fa­tal­ly shot dur­ing a park­ing dis­pute.

The Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to can­cel this year’s In­de­pen­dence Day pa­rade has sparked re­newed de­bate, with crim­i­nol­o­gist Dr Dar­ius Figuera warn­ing that it points to the pos­si­bil­i­ty of grave na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty threats.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) says the trag­ic death of Su­san Mad­ra­no-St Louis should help shape on­go­ing con­sul­ta­tions on the pro­posed stand-your-ground leg­is­la­tion, even as it ac­cused the gov­ern­ment of mis­han­dling the process.

The rel­a­tive of a woman who was shot and killed at a Cunu­pia dou­bles stand ear­ly on Sat­ur­day morn­ing has been de­tained as part of on­go­ing en­quiries in­to her death.

Keshorn Wal­cott se­cured sec­ond place in the men’s javelin at the Kami­la Skolimows­ka Memo­r­i­al in Chorzów, Poland, on Sat­ur­day. The Trinidad and To­ba­go throw­er record­ed a best dis­tance of 82.54 me­tres at the Di­a­mond League meet.

One man was ar­rest­ed for traf­fick­ing cannabis dur­ing a po­lice op­er­a­tion in the North-Cen­tral Di­vi­sion on Fri­day.

Hur­ri­cane Erin ex­plod­ed in strength to a Cat­e­go­ry 5 storm in the Caribbean on Sat­ur­day, rapid­ly pow­er­ing up from a trop­i­cal storm in a sin­gle day, the Na­tion­al Hur­ri­cane Cen­ter said.

The Na­tion­al An­i­mal Con­trol Com­mit­tee has en­dorsed the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to sus­pend the In­de­pen­dence Day fire­works dis­play for 2025.