Af­ter al­most a month with­out a pipe-borne wa­ter sup­ply, 73-year-old Boodram Sama­roo has been strug­gling to care for his bedrid­den wife and man­age dai­ly chores.

Op­po­si­tion Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les has called on Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath and the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) to com­pen­sate cit­i­zens whose wash­ing ap­pli­ances and clothes are be­ing dam­aged by “eight days of con­stant dirty wa­ter!”

Po­lice are try­ing to iden­ti­fy the de­com­pos­ing body of a woman found in bush­es near a pri­ma­ry school in Gas­par­il­lo on Wednes­day. The woman was list­ed as a Jane Doe in the po­lice re­port yes­ter­day.

An el­der­ly Tri­ni cou­ple va­ca­tion­ing in Pana­ma were al­most tram­pled on yes­ter­day as a mas­sive 7.7 earth­quake caused pan­ic in the city.