The Ju­di­cia­ry has des­ig­nat­ed that crim­i­nal mat­ters can now be heard at the O'Meara and Princes Town court lo­ca­tions.

Around 6:15 am, PC Tris­ton McWilliams was dri­ving his car east along the Beetham High­way when he crashed in­to a util­i­ty pole near VM­COTT.

“East In­di­an cul­ture is dyed in the wool in­to the cul­ture and iden­ti­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go,” says Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad Bisses­sar says in her mes­sage in com­mem­o­ra­tion of In­di­an Ar­rival Day.

US Pres­i­dent Joe Biden says he “feels good” about the debt ceil­ing and bud­get deal ne­go­ti­at­ed with House Speak­er Kevin Mc­Carthy as the White House and con­gres­sion­al lead­ers work to en­sure its pas­sage this week in time to lift the na­tion’s bor­row­ing lim­it and pre­vent a dis­as­trous U.S. de­fault.

A rare drone at­tack jolt­ed Moscow Tues­day morn­ing, light­ly dam­ag­ing some build­ings and lead­ing to the evac­u­a­tion of oth­ers, while Rus­sia pur­sued its re­lent­less bom­bard­ment of Kyiv with a third as­sault on the city in 24 hours.

The fol­low­ing is the bul­letin is­sued by the Met Ser­vice to 06:00 am, to­day, cov­er­ing the pe­ri­od: to­day un­til mid­night…

Two-year-old Umar Ali un­der­went med­ical treat­ment at the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal late last night, af­ter be­ing res­cued by of­fi­cers of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice.

Even as an­oth­er stake­hold­er yes­ter­day called for To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine to break his si­lence in the leaked pro­pa­gan­da au­dio record­ing fi­as­co, con­stituents in Au­gus­tine’s elec­toral dis­trict are stand­ing be­hind him.

The Mu­nic­i­pal Cor­po­ra­tions (Ex­ten­sion of Terms of Of­fice and Val­i­da­tion) Bill, 2023, will now head to the Sen­ate af­ter be­ing passed in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives with­out ob­jec­tions from the Op­po­si­tion yes­ter­day.

As the Ju­ly 1 dead­line for li­cen­sure draws near­er, prepa­ra­tions to move in­to an­oth­er fa­cil­i­ty have be­gun for both staff and res­i­dents of the St Jude’s Home for Girls.

Leg­is­la­tion passed in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives yes­ter­day in­cludes pro­vi­sion for a Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment elec­tion date be­ing called with­in three months of May 18, 2023—a date to be set pri­or to Au­gust 18, 2023 - and that the Writs of Elec­tions shall be is­sued in due course by the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar said yes­ter­day that Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Faris Al-Rawi was “right” about a sec­tion of the lo­cal gov­ern­ment re­form law in 2019—but what was wrong was Cab­i­net’s de­ci­sion on it in 2022 with le­gal ad­vice from a new At­tor­ney Gen­er­al.