An ar­gu­ment over a dance with a young woman on Car­ni­val Tues­day end­ed with the mur­der of a na­tion­al youth box­er.

Rel­a­tives of mur­dered busi­ness­woman Bibi Za­mil­la Swamber are call­ing on the po­lice and those in au­thor­i­ty to step up crime-fight­ing ef­forts in the coun­try.

Li­cens­ing of­fi­cers are ex­pect­ed to to­day in­spect the mu­sic truck that crushed a rev­eller to death on Car­ni­val Mon­day in San Fer­nan­do.

Cathe­dral of the Im­mac­u­late Con­cep­tion Vic­ar Gen­er­al, Fa­ther Mar­tin Sir­ju, says events held on Ash Wednes­day should not be la­belled as “cooldowns.”

Ro­man Catholic Arch­bish­op Ja­son Gor­don yes­ter­day warned against putting God on a to-do list. In­stead, make God the num­ber one pri­or­i­ty he said in his Ash Wednes­day ser­mon mark­ing the start of Lent at Our La­dy of Per­pet­u­al Help in San Fer­nan­do.

There is no miss­ing mon­ey! This was point­ed out yes­ter­day by Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert, who ac­cused Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of mak­ing up sto­ries in the im­passe be­tween Fi­nance Min­istry of­fi­cials and the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al in the 2023 pub­lic ac­counts mat­ter.

Ac­tivist Jow­elle De Souza re­signed from the Op­po­si­tion Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) yes­ter­day, af­ter tak­ing is­sue with the par­ty’s lead­er­ship and tra­jec­to­ry. She said the fi­nal straw was an al­leged re­mark by deputy leader Jear­lean John that the po­lit­i­cal leader had “tak­en a lot of heat” from re­li­gious groups for De Souza.

Close to 30 Pi­o­neer Dri­ve, Sea Lots res­i­dents marched to the Cen­tral Po­lice Sta­tion (CPS), Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day to beg the po­lice to in­ter­vene in what they claimed is an on­go­ing in­ter­nal war in the com­mu­ni­ty.

Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (Cepep) CEO Kei­th Ed­dy is com­mend­ing his work­ers, say­ing they have once again de­liv­ered on their com­mit­ment to keep­ing Port-of-Spain clean, af­ter they en­sured that the city was free of any rem­nants of Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions by mid­night on Ash Wednes­day.

A prison of­fi­cer ac­ci­den­tal­ly shot him­self in the foot while clear­ing his firearm in a car yes­ter­day morn­ing.

A man from Ari­ma has plead­ed guilty to killing an el­der­ly neigh­bour who re­sist­ed dur­ing a home in­va­sion in 2010.

Po­lice dis­cov­ered the de­com­pos­ing bod­ies of two el­der­ly men in two sep­a­rate in­ci­dents in San­ta Cruz on Tues­day.