A pop­u­lar ex­tra lessons teacher from West­moor­ings is set to re­ceive over $800,000 in com­pen­sa­tion from two doc­tors, in­clud­ing a for­mer stu­dent, for defama­tion. 

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has with­drawn its ap­peal over a judge’s de­ci­sion to up­hold a law­suit from an em­ploy­ee, who was tasked with in­ves­ti­gat­ing a col­league based on a com­plaint, for which for­mer Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les was a wit­ness. 

Min­is­ter of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices, Van­dana Mo­hit, says her min­istry is “ac­tive­ly ad­dress­ing” re­ports of el­der abuse re­ceived by the Di­vi­sion of Age­ing.

Rel­a­tives of Sher­az Ali, 64, told po­lice they don’t know his where­abouts and calls to his cell­phone have gone unan­swered. Po­lice said his broth­er re­port­ed that Ali was last seen in his brown B-14 ve­hi­cle around 9 am at Seukaran Street, Siparia. He said his broth­er usu­al­ly fre­quents the Fyz­abad, Oropouche and Siparia ar­eas and walks with a limp due to a bro­ken an­kle.

Armed men opened fire on the op­er­a­tor of a Freeport veg­etable stall on Tues­day, min­utes af­ter in­struct­ing her to close the place down.

A San­ta Cruz man was robbed of $35,000 in cash af­ter ban­dits rammed his car on the Port-of-Spain Fly­over, forc­ing him to pull over.

To­ba­go po­lice have launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to a fight in­volv­ing stu­dents and two adults out­side the Ma­son Hall Sec­ondary School yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

Flash flood­ing in parts of South Trinidad on Wednes­day forced com­muters to seek al­ter­na­tive routes in Pe­nal, Rio Claro and Ma­yaro, while some res­i­dents were trapped in­doors and two schools were dis­missed ear­ly.   

The man found with his throat slit in Ste Madeleine on Tues­day has been iden­ti­fied as Amar Rooplal.

A re­tired se­nior po­lice of­fi­cer has lost his law­suit over be­ing ar­rest­ed by mu­nic­i­pal po­lice of­fi­cers and charged af­ter be­ing in­volved in a mi­nor car ac­ci­dent in 2020.

The Min­istry of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices has re­spond­ed to an in­ci­dent in the Laven­tille area where a house col­lapsed due to the heavy rain­fall ex­pe­ri­enced across the coun­try.

The Green Screen En­vi­ron­men­tal Film Fes­ti­val is set to re­turn with a se­ries of free, out­door, com­mu­ni­ty film events from Thurs­day to Sat­ur­day fea­tur­ing a slate of fea­ture length doc­u­men­taries and short films.