This coun­try’s Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries, Sen­a­tor Franklin Khan, this week as­sumed Pres­i­den­cy at the 50th Latin Amer­i­can En­er­gy Or­ga­ni­za­tion (OLADE) Meet­ing of Min­is­ters.

Two guns and a quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion were found dur­ing ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed in North­ern Di­vi­sion ear­ly this morn­ing.

The three chil­dren who sur­vived last night’s am­bush in Cara­pichaima in which two of their fe­male rel­a­tives were killed are now in the care of the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty.

In­sen­si­tive com­ments by a per­son record­ing a cell phone video of the body of a man who was fa­tal­ly shot, have gen­er­at­ed ire among so­cial me­dia users.

Hours af­ter Chief Sec­re­tary An­cil Den­nis held a vir­tu­al meet­ing on Thurs­day evening with Glen Road res­i­dents about To­ba­go's jail re­cent­ly be­ing re­lo­cat­ed to their vil­lage, he sent a re­lease say­ing the un­oc­cu­pied fa­cil­i­ty has been closed.

It’s of­fi­cial.  Movi­eTowne Ch­agua­nas will be closed per­ma­nent­ly, leav­ing on­ly the Port-of-Spain and San Fer­nan­do branch­es.

The Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter (Gen­der and Child Af­fairs) yes­ter­day an­nounced that Priyan­ka Lal­la, Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Child Rights Am­bas­sador, has been spe­cial­ly se­lect­ed by UNICEF to be­come the first UNICEF Youth Ad­vo­cate from the 12 coun­tries of the East­ern Caribbean, along with an­oth­er rep­re­sen­ta­tive from Bar­ba­dos.

Even as the gov­ern­ment pre­pares to re­ceive the COVID-19 vac­cines, Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh is an­tic­i­pat­ing “an­ti-vac­cine kick­backs” even from with­in the med­ical fra­ter­ni­ty.

Through the course of its in­ves­ti­ga­tions in East Port-of-Spain com­mu­ni­ties, the Com­mu­ni­ty Re­cov­ery Com­mit­tee has iden­ti­fied em­ploy­ment as an is­sue for res­i­dents.

Twen­ty-one-year-old toy store man­ag­er Steven Red­head is to­day a lo­cal hero, af­ter his sharp hear­ing caught the cries of what he ini­tial­ly thought were kit­tens com­ing from the bush­es as he and his broth­er Rey­nal­do were walk­ing to get trans­port for work yes­ter­day morn­ing. Those cries turned out to be from a ba­by girl who was aban­doned in some bush­es mere me­tres from the ma­jor road that runs par­al­lel to the en­trance of Beau­car­ro Vil­lage in Freeport, Cen­tral Trinidad.

There has been an in­crease in per­sons ask­ing for so­cial help at the Sal­va­tion Army of T&T. The in­crease co­in­cid­ed with the start of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic re­stric­tions in March of this year.

A moth­er of eight from east Port-of-Spain, who was left strand­ed abroad for al­most six months on her first trip out­side of T&T, has sued the State for com­pen­sa­tion.