Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion cards will have to be pro­duced to buy al­co­hol and to­bac­co, pos­sess cannabis and en­ter gam­bling es­tab­lish­ments un­der amend­ments the Gov­ern­ment plans to add to its sweep­ing leg­is­la­tion rais­ing the le­gal ages for those ac­tiv­i­ties.

Chair­man of the Tax Ap­peal Board Dr An­tho­ny Gafoor has warned that chron­ic un­der­fund­ing, de­lays in ap­point­ments, out­dat­ed leg­is­la­tion and ad­min­is­tra­tive bot­tle­necks are threat­en­ing the ef­fec­tive­ness of one of T&T’s key ju­di­cial in­sti­tu­tions.

Win­ston Sobers re­tained his po­si­tion as chair­man of the North Zone of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Crick­et Board at its An­nu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing (AGM) at the Queen’s Park Oval on Sat­ur­day.

In 2013, CNC3 News wel­comed its first fe­male weath­er an­chor and me­te­o­rol­o­gist, Seigo­nie Mo­hammed.

A par­lia­men­tary ma­jor­i­ty gives a gov­ern­ment the au­thor­i­ty to gov­ern, but it should nev­er con­fer the pow­er to act with­out scruti­ny. That prin­ci­ple lies at the heart of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s con­sti­tu­tion­al democ­ra­cy and ex­plains why in­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors re­main an es­sen­tial part of the leg­isla­tive process. At a time of grow­ing po­lit­i­cal po­lar­i­sa­tion and in­creas­ing ex­ec­u­tive in­flu­ence, the role of in­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors as a source of re­straint, ex­per­tise and ob­jec­tive analy­sis is more im­por­tant than ever.