The Min­istry of so­cial de­vel­op­ment says it's work­ing close­ly with its key dis­as­ter stake­hold­ers in­clud­ing the first re­spon­ders, the ODPM and the Min­istry of Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment to as­sess re­port­ed cas­es of dam­age to homes fol­low­ing the Sep­tem­ber 28 ad­verse weath­er event. The Min­istry says eight fam­i­lies have been im­pact­ed. Coun­selling sup­port has been of­fered as well.

A day af­ter in­mates re­ceived recog­ni­tion for their piv­otal role in re­vi­tal­iz­ing Nel­son Is­land as a cher­ished her­itage site, Act­ing Pris­ons Com­mis­sion­er De­op­er­sad Ra­moutar un­veiled his vi­sion of us­ing pris­on­ers for com­mu­ni­ty out­reach projects.

Two sci­en­tists won the No­bel Prize in med­i­cine on Mon­day for dis­cov­er­ies that en­abled the cre­ation of mR­NA vac­cines against COVID-19 and that could be used to de­vel­op oth­er shots in the fu­ture.

Trop­i­cal Storm Philippe is on track to pass near the north­ern Lee­ward Is­lands lat­er on Mon­day with max­i­mum sus­tained winds of 50 miles per hour (mph) with a trop­i­cal storm watch re­main­ing in ef­fect for An­tigua and Bar­bu­da.

Po­lice are search­ing for a ban­dit who broke in­to two food carts and tried to steal items from the Ed­die Hart grounds food strip ear­ly on Mon­day morn­ing.

Tu­na­puna po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing an in­ci­dent where a 53-year-old woman was knocked un­con­scious by a man us­ing a chem­i­cal in a rag and then robbed on Sun­day af­ter­noon.

A 15-year-old Bel­mont boy was grant­ed bail af­ter he was ar­rest­ed and charged with the rob­bery of a moth­er and her daugh­ter in Port of Spain on Sat­ur­day.

The Prime Min­is­ter is en­cour­ag­ing the pub­lic to take the ini­tia­tive and make use of dif­fer­ent health fairs to have them­selves screened for non-com­mu­ni­ca­ble dis­eases (NCDs) to pre­vent ma­jor health is­sues lat­er on in life.

With­in a mat­ter of hours, Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert will present his 2024 fis­cal pack­age in Par­lia­ment.

A re­port­ed love tri­an­gle end­ed trag­i­cal­ly af­ter Rae-Ann “Lucy” Hen­ry, 39, of Canaan, was stabbed to death in Bon Ac­cord, To­ba­go, on Sat­ur­day.

As Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert pre­pares to un­veil the 2024 fis­cal Bud­get to­day, Works Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan has con­firmed that ex­ten­sive road paving ef­forts will con­tin­ue in the new fis­cal year as a na­tion­al pri­or­i­ty.

Wood­land farm­ers are en­dur­ing sleep­less nights as they grap­ple with theft of their live­stock by cat­tle rustlers who op­er­ate un­der the cloak of dark­ness.