The Trans­port and In­dus­tri­al Work­ers’ Union (TI­WU) has de­nied that in­dus­tri­al ac­tion by em­ploy­ees is re­spon­si­ble for de­lays in bus ser­vices at the Pub­lic Trans­port Ser­vice Cor­po­ra­tion’s (PTSC) Port-of-Spain de­pot.

Trav­ellers en­ter­ing and leav­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go will soon be re­quired to com­plete im­mi­gra­tion ar­rival and de­par­ture cards on­line as au­thor­i­ties pre­pare to re­place the long-stand­ing pa­per-based sys­tem used at the coun­try’s ports of en­try.

Gov­ern­ment is mov­ing to place Trinidad and To­ba­go’s laws in an of­fi­cial dig­i­tal for­mat along­side the tra­di­tion­al print­ed ver­sion, a change ex­pect­ed to save tax­pay­ers mil­lions spent print­ing le­gal vol­umes over­seas.

The Na­tion­al Trust of Trinidad and To­ba­go says it is mov­ing to­wards se­cur­ing le­gal pro­tec­tion for the re­mains of the Cedar Grove Sug­ar Es­tate in Palmiste, de­scrib­ing the site as an im­por­tant rel­ic of the coun­try’s colo­nial sug­ar in­dus­try.

Some San­gre Grande res­i­dents ad­mit that while there has been a height­ened po­lice pres­ence in their dis­trict as a re­sult of the State of Emer­gency (SoE), they have de­nied claims that an un­of­fi­cial cur­few is be­ing en­forced by of­fi­cers on pa­trol, as they note that life con­tin­ues as nor­mal in their com­mu­ni­ties.

Pres­i­dent of the Route 2 Maxi Taxi As­so­ci­a­tion, Bren­ton Knights, has ac­cused the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al of fail­ing to com­ply with the le­gal time­lines un­der the Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Act (FOIA) af­ter sub­mit­ting re­quests for in­for­ma­tion re­lat­ed to mat­ters af­fect­ing the maxi taxi sec­tor.

More than a week af­ter leav­ing To­ba­go on a 29-foot fish­ing pirogue, the where­abouts of two Trinida­di­an sailors re­main un­known.

A man, who was de­nied ac­cess to his lawyer when he was ar­rest­ed in 2019, has been award­ed a lit­tle over $115,000 in com­pen­sa­tion.

The State has been or­dered to pay a lit­tle over $200,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a cannabis ac­tivist and mem­bers’ club own­er for false im­pris­on­ment and ma­li­cious pros­e­cu­tion.

The full open­ing of the new ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in To­ba­go is get­ting clos­er to re­al­i­ty.

A se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer has been grant­ed bail af­ter be­ing charged with ob­struct­ing po­lice of­fi­cers in the ex­e­cu­tion of their du­ty fol­low­ing a re­port of a home in­va­sion in Ari­ma.

The South West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) has moved to ad­dress grow­ing con­cerns on­line over the sta­tus of the Point Fortin Hos­pi­tal and claims that life-sav­ing equip­ment has been moved to the Cou­va Hos­pi­tal.