Af­ter spend­ing 19 years in prison and en­dur­ing two full tri­als and sev­er­al oth­ers that were abort­ed, a man from Laven­tille is still yet to be found in­no­cent or guilty of mur­der­ing his un­cle. 

A for­mer cashier who is ac­cused of car­ry­ing out an armed rob­bery at her for­mer work­place, an NP Quick Shoppe, has been de­nied bail.

The Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al has agreed to set­tle a mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar dis­pute with dozens of em­ploy­ees at the Im­mi­gra­tion De­ten­tion Cen­tre in Aripo over gra­tu­ity pay­ments from their last con­tract. 

Pro­posed changes to the Sup­ple­men­tary Means Test (SMT), for so­cial grants, may re­sult in some cit­i­zens be­ing bumped off so­cial pro­grammes as Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tary of the Min­istry of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices Jac­in­ta Bai­ley-Sobers said they should not have been there in the first place.

A death row in­mate, whose hand was left de­formed af­ter be­ing beat­en by prison of­fi­cers dur­ing a ri­ot 13 years ago, is set to re­ceive over $230,000 in com­pen­sa­tion.

De­spite the ab­sence of five UNC coun­cil­lors at the Ma­yaro/Rio Claro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion the swear­ing-in cer­e­mo­ny for the new Coun­cil con­tin­ued on Fri­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion, T&TEC has urged cus­tomers in Trinidad to con­serve elec­tric­i­ty, as the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) con­ducts ex­pan­sion work on its net­work, which it said could re­sult in a loss of elec­tric­i­ty.

How­ev­er, a mur­der in Pa­lo Seco this morn­ing and a de­com­pos­ing body found in the Ari­ma pushed the toll up, be­fore the two lat­est killings.

Come Jan­u­ary 2020, lo­cal clin­i­cal tri­als for can­cer treat­ment drugs will be­gin in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Four per­sons were ar­rest­ed on sus­pi­cion of be­ing in­volved in gang re­lat­ed ac­tiv­i­ties this morn­ing, by of­fi­cers of the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Re­sponse Team (SORT).

Po­lice said around 6.50 am Win­ston Richards was out­side his Beach Road home when three men emerged from bush­es near­by and fired sev­er­al shots at him.

The lone PNM coun­cil­lor elect­ed in the Ma­yaro/ Rio Claro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion took his oath of of­fice at the coun­cil cham­bers ear­li­er to­day.