Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith is cer­tain that the Po­lice Ser­vice is in bet­ter shape one year af­ter he was in­stalled as top cop.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith says de­spite his achieve­ments over the last year in of­fice, mur­ders and the fear of crime con­tin­ues to be his biggest chal­lenges.

It costs less than $200 to strap down your roof with hur­ri­cane tie straps yet thou­sands of homes across T&T re­main vul­ner­a­ble to strong winds.

A stern warn­ing has been sent to Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley re­gard­ing pro­posed re­trench­ment at the Ch­aguara­mas De­vel­op­ment Au­thor­i­ty (CDA).

Clean-up op­er­a­tions con­tin­ued yes­ter­day in Pe­nal af­ter tor­ren­tial show­ers and high winds on Thurs­day caused de­struc­tion to sev­en homes in the area.

San Fer­nan­do May­or Ju­nia Re­grel­lo is plan­ning to move the Port-of-Spain taxi stand to Kings Wharf, but while some com­muters wel­come the move, most of the taxi dri­vers are against it.

The com­pli­ca­tions of blind­ness and am­pu­ta­tion were the first lessons that 25 chil­dren, who had high Body Mass In­dex, learned when they showed up for day one of the Di­a­betes As­so­ci­a­tion’s (DATT) Teen Lifestyle Camp at the Preysal Sec­ondary School in Cou­va Fri­day.

A Pleas­antville woman caught in a vi­ral video strug­gling with po­lice of­fi­cers has been grant­ed $50,000 bail on four charges aris­ing from the in­ci­dent in which she al­leged­ly in­jured two of­fi­cers.

The sev­en fish­er­men mur­dered by lo­cal pi­rates in Ju­ly were not in­volved in drugs or il­le­gal ac­tiv­i­ties, their fam­i­lies say. And fam­i­ly mem­bers want to make it clear that the men worked very hard mak­ing an hon­est dol­lar go­ing out to sea.

An olive branch from Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is es­sen­tial­ly be­ing slapped away by Pres­i­dent of the Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre, Wat­son Duke.

It is dubbed as the pre­mier arts fes­ti­val in the Caribbean, CAR­IFES­TA XIV got un­der­way at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah last night. The theme this year is “Con­nect, Share, In­vest”.

120 ca­su­al and tem­po­rary work­ers with the Siparia Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion are ex­pect­ed to be giv­en the axe on Mon­day.