US$6.7b in damage
Posted: Sunday, June 28, 2026

US$6.7b in damage
UNDP assessment over Venezuela earthquakes:

Quakes lift T&T coastline by nearly 20 feet
A portion of Trinidad's south-western coast was thrust nearly 20 feet upwards in the aftermath of the devastating twin earthquakes that rocked Venezuela last week, unsettling the Galfa coastline and trapping hundreds of sea animals among the rubble in a matter of seconds.

Israel's deliberate killing of Palestinian children, UN report
"The murder of Palestinian children number 21,280," states a report of the Independent United Nations Commission of Inquiry into the killings by Israel in Gaza; the report was released over the last week. An additional 55000 children are said by the Save the Children group to be under the rubble that Gaza has been reduced to; the findings of the report are revealing and instructive.

Dear editor: It's a matter of time before Labour ejects its "camels"

Dr Teelucksingh: Why neglecting your mouth is one of the greatest mistakes in modern health

Inside T&T's gang landscape
USAID report: 186 gangs, 1,750 members in this country...

Hadeeds detained in alleged conspiracy to murder probe
...Businessman, wife held under PDOs at prison facilities; relative also under detention

Elite police units lead probe into Hadeeds
Officers of elite investigative police units, including the Special Branch and the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), are leading enquiries into allegations of a purported conspiracy to commit murder, which led to the arrest of businessman Dominic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve Hadeed, police sources claimed yesterday.

Tracing the rise of the 'one per cent' label in T&T

'She loved everyone': Family mourns murdered Barrackpore pensioner
Tara Bridgemohan was a kind mother who loved to cook and spend time with her family and neighbours. That is how relatives and friends want the 75-year-old remembered after she was found dead while bound and gagged inside her bedroom following an apparent home invasion at her Hassanali Trace South, Barrackpore home.

Boy, 15, killed in motorcycle collision
A 15-year-old Cunupia boy is the country's latest road fatality after he was struck and killed by a car while riding his father's motorcycle yesterday morning.


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