Leg­is­la­tion to re­place the $100 bank note with a new poly­mer bill was passed in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives just af­ter 10 pm on Fri­day.

Eat Lo­cal Day will be launched this Wednes­day aimed at strength­en­ing link­ages among ed­u­ca­tion, re­search and out­reach.

A ri­fle, quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion and mar­i­jua­na have been seized by of­fi­cers of the West­ern Di­vi­sion CID, the Gang Unit and of­fi­cers of

Guardian Me­dia learned on Sat­ur­day that the the Gov­ern­ment's out­stand­ing bill is the crux of Unipet's le­gal case cur­rent­ly build­ing against the State.

Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young an­nounced on Thurs­day that a Cab­i­net de­ci­sion was made to re­move the ex­ist­ing $100 bill from cir­cu­la­tion and re­place it with a new, hard­er to coun­ter­feit note.

Dana Pe­ruza last saw and spoke with her son Key­on “Geno” Gill around 7 pm on Thurs­day as she or­dered KFC for din­ner.

The Pi­paro mud vol­cano has gone silent and re­gion­al di­rec­tor of the Of­fice of Dis­as­ter Pre­pared­ness Er­ic Mack­ie be­lieves this si­lence has lulled res­i­dents in­to a false sense of se­cu­ri­ty.

The al­ready floun­der­ing Ed­u­ca­tion Fa­cil­i­ties Com­pa­ny Ltd (EF­CL) has now lost out on the $800 mil­lion ear­marked by Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley to fix 24 pri­or­i­ty schools. The con­tract has been giv­en to the Na­tion­al Main­te­nance Train­ing and Se­cu­ri­ty Com­pa­ny (MTS) in­stead.

The new poly­mer $100 ban­knotes have been print­ed and are ready for dis­tri­b­u­tion, Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert has an­nounced.

In an at­tempt to es­cape the grid­lock traf­fic which snarled all routes in­to and out of the cap­i­tal city on Sat­ur­day, a de­liv­ery dri­ver lost his life af­ter he at­tempt­ed to use an al­ter­na­tive route.

A po­lice op­er­a­tion to fa­cil­i­tate the trans­fer of the new poly­mer $100 cur­ren­cy notes to the Cen­tral Bank Tow­ers in Port-of-Spain caused mas­sive grid­lock traf­fic in the cap­i­tal Sat­ur­day.

Trinida­di­ans are fa­mous for not keep­ing time but thanks to a do­na­tion from the for­mer pres­i­dent of the Sen­ate Micheal J Williams, they may have a bet­ter chance of do­ing so.