Heavy rains are caus­ing fur­ther slip­pages along Williams Smith Road, Man­ta­cool, Table­land where the road and sev­er­al hous­es have al­ready col­lapsed. 

Three T&T De­fence Force (TTDF) re­cruits have failed in their bid to be con­firmed pend­ing the de­ter­mi­na­tion of their law­suit over be­ing eject­ed af­ter com­plet­ing ba­sic train­ing.

The T&T Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) has high­light­ed more 125 com­mu­ni­ties across the coun­try with el­e­vat­ed flood po­ten­tial dur­ing the 2023 wet sea­son.

Thou­sands of mourn­ers gath­ered at the Shaw Park Cul­tur­al Com­plex in Scar­bor­ough yes­ter­day for the fu­ner­al of Chris­t­ian and Tere­sa Adam, the cou­ple killed in a ve­hic­u­lar ac­ci­dent on the Claude Noel High­way near the Botan­i­cal Gar­dens two weeks ago

Yes­ter­day’s 47th Ple­nary Meet­ing of the Unit­ed Na­tions (UN) Gen­er­al As­sem­bly was his­toric for T&T as for the first time a T&T na­tion­al was elect­ed Pres­i­dent. Den­nis Fran­cis, Am­bas­sador Ex­tra­or­di­nary and Plenipo­ten­tiary Per­ma­nent Rep­re­sen­ta­tive of T&T to the UN, was elect­ed by ac­cla­ma­tion in New York.

Even as a po­lice probe in­to the al­leged sex­u­al as­sault of a 21-year-old Venezue­lan mi­grant at the Ch­aguara­mas He­li­port is un­der­way, at­tor­neys rep­re­sent­ing the woman are claim­ing this in­ci­dent is one of many at the fa­cil­i­ty.

The mur­der toll con­tin­ued to climb yes­ter­day, fol­low­ing the killing of a teenag­er in Waller­field.

A 46-year-old sales­man, ac­cused of sex­u­al­ly mo­lest­ing a five-year-old girl and show­ing her porno­graph­ic ma­te­r­i­al, has been grant­ed bail in the sum of $200,000.

A High Court Judge has or­dered the con­di­tion­al re­lease of a 29-year-old man of La Hor­quet­ta, Ari­ma, who ad­mit­ted to com­mit­ing a shoot­ing when he was a teenag­er which claimed the life of a neigh­bour.

ANSA McAL gave thanks to the hard­work­ing health care pro­fes­sion­als at the North­west Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty – Ox­ford Street En­hanced Health Cen­tre by pro­vid­ing them with gift vouch­ers from The Herbar­i­um Ltd.

World 200 me­tres bronze medal­list Jereem Richards of Trinidad & To­ba­go head­lines a hand­ful of Eng­lish-speak­ing Caribbean ath­letes set to run in the World Ath­let­ics Di­a­mond League meet on Fri­day in this Ital­ian city.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, ear­ly Thurs­day, short­ly be­fore 3:00 am (lo­cal time), the blaze de­stroyed an­oth­er dor­mi­to­ry, this time in Karasabai, Rupu­nuni, in Re­gion 9, to the south of here, but so far, there are no re­ports of in­juries.