Some sit­ting mem­bers of par­lia­ment are cur­rent­ly un­der in­ves­ti­ga­tion by po­lice for hav­ing ties in the crim­i­nal un­der­world. The long-tout­ed ru­mour was con­firmed by Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Stu­art Young dur­ing an hour-long, one-on-one in­ter­view on CNC3’s The Morn­ing Brew yes­ter­day.

The T&T Gov­ern­ment has backed Bar­ba­dos’ po­si­tion not to send a rep­re­sen­ta­tive to to­day’s meet­ing be­ing held by US Sec­re­tary of State Mike Pom­peo with sev­er­al Caribbean lead­ers in Ja­maica. The Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Min­istry con­firmed the Gov­ern­ment’s po­si­tion yes­ter­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce has told the gov­ern­ment that the coun­try is in a “cri­sis of crime,” and does not have the “lux­u­ry of time.”

In a re­lease yes­ter­day, the Caribbean Pres­tige Foun­da­tion (CPF) of­fi­cial­ly an­nounced Bap­tiste in the role, less than a week af­ter Fay-Ann Lyons-Al­varez va­cat­ed the role as the event’s chair­man.

Soa­ka Till Sun­rise was de­scribed by many as the ul­ti­mate end to WOW Events three-day fes­ti­val, the Soa­ka Mu­sic and Arts Fes­ti­val.

Twen­ty-four Chut­ney So­ca artistes se­cured a spot in­to the fi­nals of the Chut­ney So­ca com­pe­ti­tion at Guaracara Park on Feb­ru­ary 8 and a chance to de­throne 2019 win­ner Nishard Mayhroo.

Two Trinida­di­ans, a pas­tor and an Army sergeant have been con­vict­ed of con­spir­a­cy to com­mit mar­riage fraud as part of an il­le­gal im­mi­gra­tion scheme, ac­cord­ing to fed­er­al pros­e­cu­tors in the Unit­ed State.

It’s the peak of the 2020 Car­ni­val sea­son and scores of peo­ple are flock­ing to gyms around the coun­try to get ready for the road.

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) Pres­i­dent Wat­son Duke have sought to have a sedi­tion charge against him dis­missed. 

Even though Works Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan said no new works were on­go­ing in the Mon De­sir to Fyz­abad high­way, heavy ma­chin­ery con­tin­ued to op­er­ate there on Mon­day.

Par­lia­ment is fi­nal­ly re­turn­ing to its tra­di­tion­al home in the Red House build­ing when it re­opens its doors on Fri­day by Pres­i­dent Paula Mae-Weekes.

The qual­i­ty of fu­el in this coun­try is again be­ing called in­to ques­tion, this time it seems to be cen­tred on diesel.