Trinida­di­an fish­er­men and oth­ers from Caribbean ter­ri­to­ries yes­ter­day boy­cotted a Zoom meet­ing aimed at op­pos­ing the de­ploy­ment of US war­ships in the Caribbean.

Venezuela’s De­fence Min­is­ter Vladimir Padri­no López is dis­miss­ing as “fake news” re­ports cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia and in re­gion­al out­lets that two se­nior Bo­li­var­i­an Na­tion­al Armed Forces (FANB) gen­er­als had de­sert­ed.

The rel­a­tives of two men killed dur­ing a pur­port­ed shootout with po­lice are ques­tion­ing the of­fi­cial ver­sion of the in­ci­dent put for­ward by the TTPS, as they are doubt­ful that ei­ther of their rel­a­tives at­tacked the of­fi­cers first.

Two women and two men have been ar­rest­ed and joint­ly charged in con­nec­tion with a bur­glary re­port­ed in the South West­ern Di­vi­sion on Sep­tem­ber 13.

A dou­bles ven­dor and her em­ploy­ee were tied up and robbed of thou­sands of dol­lars when four masked men stormed her home at Ply­mouth Road, To­ba­go, ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.

The Elec­tion and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) of­fice in Princes Town has been closed un­til fur­ther no­tice af­ter a van crashed in­to the build­ing at St Croix Junc­tion on Sun­day and broke down a sec­tion of its wall.

With an an­nu­al av­er­age al­lo­ca­tion of $945 mil­lion, the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture still falls be­low the $1 bil­lion thresh­old that T&T Farm­ers’ Union ex­ec­u­tive mem­ber Shi­raz Khan says would demon­strate gen­uine con­cern for the sec­tor, warn­ing that any­thing less in the 2026 bud­get would sig­nal in­dif­fer­ence by the State.

A Rich Plain Road fam­i­ly slept more eas­i­ly last night, af­ter Diego Mar­tin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion (DM­BC) work­ers cov­ered a land­slide threat­en­ing their home with tar­pau­lin on Sun­day.

Four wit­ness­es were called by the State as the tri­al against for­mer ANSA Bank em­ploy­ees and car busi­ness deal­ers, who al­leged­ly de­fraud­ed the bank, be­gan yes­ter­day.

ABC will re­in­state Jim­my Kim­mel’s late night show in the wake of crit­i­cism over his com­ments about the as­sas­si­na­tion of con­ser­v­a­tive ac­tivist Char­lie Kirk, of­fi­cials with the net­work said Mon­day.

A call from the T&T Au­to­mo­tive Deal­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTA­DA) for greater trans­paren­cy from lo­cal cor­po­ra­tions op­er­at­ing in the au­to­mo­tive sec­tor, in­sist­ing that the pub­lic has a right to know the facts be­hind ma­jor de­ci­sions im­pact­ing con­sumers.

A warn­ing that the Fire Ser­vice is in dire need of re­sources, and the lack of equip­ment is se­vere­ly ham­per­ing the work of fire of­fi­cers and as a con­se­quence, cit­i­zens lives are be­ing put at risk.