Youths ra­di­at­ed pos­i­tiv­i­ty and pride as the com­mu­ni­ty of Pe­nal came alive for this year’s post-In­de­pen­dence and pre-Re­pub­lic Day pa­rade. The event was host­ed by the St Patrick Brigade, which has been in ex­is­tence for al­most three decades. Due to fi­nan­cial and oth­er chal­lenges, how­ev­er, this was the first time in sev­en or eight years that the com­mu­ni­ty pa­rade was held.

A 12-year-old school­girl was found dead in a busy area near a recre­ation ground in her neigh­bour­hood at Friend­ship Vil­lage, Ste Madeleine, yes­ter­day.

Unit­ed States Sen­a­tors Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff on Fri­day in­tro­duced a War Pow­ers Act res­o­lu­tion that would block use of US Armed Forces to en­gage in hos­til­i­ties against cer­tain non-state or­ga­ni­za­tions fol­low­ing mul­ti­ple unau­tho­rized mil­i­tary strikes on un­ver­i­fied al­leged drug traf­fick­ing op­er­a­tions in the South­ern Caribbean Sea.

The In­di­an gov­ern­ment ex­pressed con­cern Sat­ur­day about Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s lat­est push to up­end Amer­i­can im­mi­gra­tion pol­i­cy, dra­mat­i­cal­ly rais­ing the fee for visas that bring tech work­ers from In­dia and oth­er coun­tries to the Unit­ed States.

Just un­der one mile from the West End Po­lice Sta­tion, eight peo­ple were robbed of their mon­ey and valu­ables by ban­dits at the Diego Mar­tin Cen­tral Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre.

Four sus­pects have been ar­rest­ed in To­ba­go for var­i­ous of­fences, in­clud­ing pos­ses­sion of drugs and house break­ing and lar­ce­ny.

A mur­der ac­cused who was grant­ed bail in 2023 has been re­mand­ed in­to cus­tody af­ter breach­ing one of the con­di­tions of his re­lease.

Res­i­dents of Rich Plain Road, Diego Mar­tin, can ex­pect a smoother dri­ve to their homes by next month, as re­pairs and tem­po­rary restora­tion of leaks and pot­holes are set to com­mence on Sep­tem­ber 30.

A cy­ber­at­tack tar­get­ing check-in and board­ing sys­tems dis­rupt­ed air traf­fic and caused de­lays at sev­er­al of Eu­rope’s ma­jor air­ports on Sat­ur­day, of­fi­cials said, though the ini­tial im­pact ap­peared to be lim­it­ed.

(CNN) US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump an­nounced yes­ter­day an­oth­er lethal mil­i­tary strike on an al­leged drug-traf­fick­ing ves­sel in in­ter­na­tion­al wa­ters that he said was af­fil­i­at­ed with a des­ig­nat­ed ter­ror­ist or­gan­i­sa­tion.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has been ac­cused of meet­ing in­car­cer­at­ed al­leged gang mem­bers short­ly be­fore he left the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) to pur­sue a ca­reer in pol­i­tics.

Two po­lice units and a gov­ern­ment agency are be­ing re­lo­cat­ed from Tow­er C of the In­ter­na­tion­al Wa­ter­front Com­plex in Port-of-Spain, to make room for Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der’s min­istry.