A for­mer em­ploy­ee at chem­i­cal man­u­fac­tur­er Yara Trinidad Lim­it­ed, who was left 20 per cent par­tial­ly dis­abled af­ter falling while ad­dress­ing an oil leak at the com­pa­ny’s plant in 2019, has sued the com­pa­ny for neg­li­gence. 

A 28-year-old woman was shot while lim­ing at a restau­rant and bar in San Fer­nan­do af­ter an­oth­er pa­tron’s firearm ac­ci­den­tal­ly dis­charged.

The awards cer­e­mo­ny is the main event of the To­ba­go Day cel­e­bra­tions and is held in recog­ni­tion of To­bag­o­ni­ans who have pro­vid­ed dis­tin­guished and out­stand­ing ser­vice to the is­land.

Rapid­fire Kidz Foun­da­tion in part­ner­ship with Uni-T&T held its an­nu­al Christ­mas Toy Dri­ve on Sat­ur­day de­liv­er­ing gift bags with toys, treats and ac­tiv­i­ty books to 600 chil­dren in south Trinidad.

Scores of peo­ple turned up at Pen­ny Av­enue in Gulf View, La Ro­maine, on Sat­ur­day night to view a house beau­ti­ful­ly lit with an ar­ray of Christ­mas lights and dec­o­ra­tions. The house could be seen a dis­tance away from the South Trunk Road.

The Min­istry of Health is re­port­ing 26 more lives have been lost to COVID-19 in its lat­est up­date, and that an­oth­er 601 peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for the dis­ease.

To­bag­o­ni­ans go to the polls to­mor­row, Mon­day 6 De­cem­ber 2021, in what is ex­pect­ed to be a hot­ly con­test­ed elec­tion for con­trol of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA).

In re­sponse to con­cerns raised by Op­po­si­tion par­ties about its pi­lot project for par­al­lel da­ta col­lec­tion at polling sta­tions dur­ing the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tions to­mor­row, the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) has de­cid­ed to post­pone im­ple­ment­ing the project.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice wel­comed 37 Prison Ser­vice Dri­vers in­to its ranks—the largest num­ber of dri­vers ever to be in­duct­ed at one time in the his­to­ry of the Prison Ser­vice—dur­ing a brief cer­e­mo­ny at the Pris­ons Train­ing Col­lege, on Fri­day 3rd De­cem­ber 2021.

A 19-year-old man is sched­uled to ap­pear at the Ari­ma Mag­is­trates’ Court on Mon­day 6th De­cem­ber 2021, af­ter be­ing charged with the No­vem­ber 26th mur­der of An­tho­ny Fuentes.

Last Fri­day, US Pres­i­dent Joe Biden an­nounced new trav­el rules for all for­eign­ers en­ter­ing the Unit­ed States. In a bid to slow the spread of the Omi­cron vari­ant, trav­ellers now have to take a pre-de­par­ture COVID-19 test no more than one day be­fore trav­el. Pre­vi­ous­ly, trav­ellers had to take a test three days be­fore trav­el. If you’re trav­el­ling in the weeks ahead, here’s what you need to know. 

NEW YORK (AP) — CNN fired an­chor Chris Cuo­mo on Sat­ur­day less than a week af­ter new in­for­ma­tion emerged about how he as­sist­ed his broth­er, for­mer New York Gov. An­drew Cuo­mo, as the politi­cian faced sex­u­al ha­rass­ment al­le­ga­tions ear­li­er this year.