The Sanatan Dhar­ma Ma­ha Sab­ha (SDMS) does not want a State fu­ner­al for its Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al, Sat­narayan Ma­haraj.

High Court Judge Frank Seep­er­sad says there should be stiffer penal­ties for those who dam­age the en­vi­ron­ment through il­le­gal quar­ry­ing, lit­ter­ing and oil spills.

Even though he ad­mit­ted to ruf­fling some feath­ers as may­or, Ju­nia Re­grel­lo says he is sat­is­fied that he has ini­ti­at­ed pos­i­tive changes for the growth of San Fer­nan­do.

Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young said on Sunday that in­for­ma­tion in the pub­lic do­main about T&T na­tion­als who left to join ISIS must first be ver­i­fied but ac­knowl­edged that some of the ev­i­dence was dis­turb­ing.

A 26-year-old man from El Do­ra­do was shot and killed while pur­chas­ing a meal in Curepe, ear­ly on Sun­day. 

“Now to lose my son it’s very hard. He was a lov­ing and jovial man. I don’t know how he died. He was a re­spect­ed welder and fab­ri­ca­tor and he worked hard for his fam­i­ly,” An­nette said.

A son’s worse night­mare be­came re­al­i­ty on Sun­day when Anil Gob­in came home to find his moth­er Ram­ra­jie Gob­in chopped to death on her bed.

Two teenagers, a 15-year-old girl and 19-year-old boy, drowned at the Ar­gyle Wa­ter­fall in To­ba­go on Sun­day, af­ter a sud­den gush of wa­ter caught them off-guard.

In­censed af­ter be­ing re­fused a cig­a­rette, a men­tal out-pa­tient snatched a con­crete brick and blud­geoned a Ste Madeleine watch­man to death on Sun­day.

Speak­ing at road safe­ty NGO Ar­rive Alive’s sev­enth an­nu­al event to com­mem­o­rate World Re­mem­brance Day for Traf­fic Vic­tims on Sat­ur­day, TTPS road safe­ty co-or­di­na­tor Brent Bat­son said the is­sue had been list­ed as a high pri­or­i­ty ac­tion item on the Na­tion­al Polic­ing Strate­gic Plan by Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith, who was al­so in at­ten­dance. 

Call­ing for a cel­e­bra­tion of the late Hin­du leader Sat­narayan Ma­haraj, High Court Judge Frank Seep­er­sad urged cit­i­zens to nev­er for­get the ster­ling con­tri­bu­tion Ma­haraj made to ed­u­ca­tion and in­de­pen­dence.

Two teenagers, a 15-year-old fe­male and 19-year-old male, drowned at the Ar­gyle Wa­ter­fall in To­ba­go on Sun­day af­ter a sud­den gush of wa­ter caught them off-guard.