Race, gen­der jus­tice and Caribbean mas­culin­i­ties will be among the top­ics of dis­cus­sion when the In­sti­tute for Gen­der and De­vel­op­ment Stud­ies (IGDS) of The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (The UWI) hosts its In­au­gur­al Re­gion­al Grad­u­ate Re­search Sym­po­sium, on Thurs­day 26 May 2022, 10:00 AM AST.

bpTT has an­nounced the re­turn of the Joe Dou­glas Jack Up rig which is sched­uled to ar­rive in Trinidad in Sep­tem­ber 2022.

Nine­teen year old Ronal­do Ass­ing a labour­er from Ari­ma has been charged with the mur­der of Josi­ah Mal­oney al­so of Ari­ma. He was al­so charged with pos­ses­sion of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion, pos­ses­sion of firearm to en­dan­ger life, pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion to en­dan­ger life and shoot­ing with in­tent. He is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore an Ari­ma Mag­is­trate to an­swer to the charges. 

Min­is­ter of Hous­ing and Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment, the Ho­n­ourable Camille Robin­son-Reg­is dis­trib­uted Home Im­prove­ment Grant cheques to twen­ty-sev­en re­cip­i­ents in North­east Trinidad on May 25 2022. 

Sgt Jaiper­sad Baran was asleep with his wife and three chil­dren at their Iere Vil­lage home, po­lice said.  How­ev­er, around 2.30 am, Sgt Baran was jolt­ed from his sleep by a loud ex­plo­sion and on check­ing, dis­cov­ered his garage was on fire.

NEW YORK (AP) — For­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump must an­swer ques­tions un­der oath in New York state’s civ­il in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to his busi­ness prac­tices, a state ap­peals court ruled Thurs­day.

RA­MAL­LAH, West Bank (AP) — The Pales­tin­ian Au­thor­i­ty on Thurs­day said its in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the shoot­ing death of Al Jazeera jour­nal­ist Shireen Abu Ak­leh proves she was de­lib­er­ate­ly killed by Is­raeli forces.

T&T so­ca gi­ants Kes the Band and Voice will among sev­er­al Caribbean artistes fea­tured in June­teenth cel­e­bra­tions in Wash­ing­ton DC, this year.

The Na­tion­al Li­brary and In­for­ma­tion Sys­tem Au­thor­i­ty’s (NALIS) Her­itage Li­brary is host­ing an ex­hi­bi­tion en­ti­tled “In­di­an Cin­e­ma in Trinidad and To­ba­go: Its Im­pact on Trin­bag­on­ian Iden­ti­ty and Cul­ture,” which be­gan on May 23 and will end on May 31.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) is ad­vis­ing there is a sig­nif­i­cant con­cen­tra­tion of Sa­ha­ran dust present in the at­mos­phere to­day, and as such, per­sons who are sen­si­tive to this change in air qual­i­ty should take nec­es­sary pre­cau­tions.

Over the past 24 hours, some 35 new pos­i­tive cas­es of COVID-19 have been re­port­ed in To­ba­go.  There are now 503 cur­rent ac­tive in­fec­tions on the is­land.

T&TEC cus­tomers in parts of East and South Trinidad, as well as To­ba­go, will ex­pe­ri­ence a tem­po­rary dis­rup­tion to their sup­ply of elec­tric­i­ty, Fri­day 27 may 2022.