Head Coach of the Trinidad and Tobago team Wim Rijsbergen said on the eve of his team's opening fixture against Barbados that his bunch of mostly inexperienced players will seek to show so called experts that they are ready for international football.

The State has dropped the main charges against two local businessmen accused of fraud during the Piarco Airport construction project, tying up loose ends to allow their extradition to the United States.

Police investigators returned to the Diego Martin hills, off La Puerta Road yesterday, two days after searching the mountainside on information that Vindra Naipaul-Coolman might be kept there.

The local entertainment industry reacted with shock and sadness to the news of the death of soca music pioneer Ellis Chow Lin On.

An injunction blocking the dissolution of BWIA West Indies Airways Ltd will not affect the company’s transition tomorrow to Caribbean Airlines.

A second Peoples National Movement politician was gunned down on Thursday night, in what investigators believe was an "ordered hit".

Two weeks after her abduction, Debbie Ali was released yesterday after her family paid a ransom for her freedom.

The Urban Development Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (UDeCOTT) has released its 2007 calendar with 12 of its projects, "structures that form part of Vision 2020".

Prime Minister Patrick Manning said yesterday the TT$15 billion rapid rail project will go ahead as scheduled, despite calls from several construction industry interest groups for Government to put a halt to the initiative, as they claim the procurement process being used is flawed and prone to corruption.

A wide range of top-level industry experts -including contractors, engineers, architects, surveyors, planners, manufacturers and the local Transparency Institute-yesterday called on Prime Minister Patrick Manning to put the rapid rail procurement process on hold as more research on the project is needed.