Businessmen Steve Ferguson and Ishwar Galbaransingh are resisting attempts to extradite them to the United States to face charges of fraud and money laundering in relation to the Piarco Airport Development Project.

Police have netted the decade's largest ganja find, in a joint operation between narcotics police and Operation Kingfish, yesterday.

A strong earthquake hit Venezuela and Trinidad on Friday, knocking out power across much of the Caribbean island and sending thousands of people in Venezuela into the streets.

For the second time, Foreign Affairs Minister Knowlson Gift has resigned from an administration led by Prime Minister Patrick Manning abruptly, causing immediate speculation about his motives.

The release date for the gangsta tale Shottas has once again been pushed back. Originally scheduled to be released in September, executives at Sony/Screen Gems have reportedly made the decision to change the date to early November for promotional reasons. This is the third proposed date for the US cinema release of the 2002 urban drama.

By 2010, Trinidad and Tobago should have free pre-school education, says Prime Minister Patrick Manning.

Works and Transport Minister Colm Imbert has defended the integrity of the bidding selection for the Government's $15 billion rapid railway project but is mindful of the perception some may have about the process if the contract is awarded to the consortium that includes Bombardier Transportation.

Former president Noor Hassanali, who made history by having been appointed to the nation's highest office by two different ruling political parties for two consecutive terms, died yesterday at his home at the age of 88.

Twenty four years after a teenage US beauty queen was found sexually assaulted and strangled in her apartment a 60-year-old Trinidadian night watchman has been arrested for her murder, it was learned yesterday.

Look out for British Pop singer Elton John, Canadian Celine Dion and American Prince at the second edition of the Tobago Jazz Festival next year.