Three econ­o­mists have warned that the Op­po­si­tion’s promise to start pub­lic sec­tor wage ne­go­ti­a­tions at no less than ten per cent might not be fi­nan­cial­ly vi­able.

There is still no word on how long Dr Kei­th Row­ley will re­main as po­lit­i­cal leader of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) but the par­ty’s gen­er­al sec­re­tary Fos­ter Cum­mings says the cur­rent con­fig­u­ra­tion is work­ing “quite well”.

Head of the Repa­tri­a­tion Com­mit­tee, Nizam Mo­hammed, says T&T is ready for repa­tri­a­tion and could bring home strand­ed women and chil­dren lan­guish­ing in north­east­ern Syr­ia by Oc­to­ber at the ear­li­est if the gov­ern­ment ful­ly co-op­er­ates and fa­cil­i­tates the process.

As the State of Emer­gency (SoE) draws to a close, act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Ju­nior Ben­jamin says work to lay charges against per­sons de­tained is on­go­ing.

A Siparia man, ac­cused of com­mit­ting one of the most grue­some mur­ders this year, has been re­mand­ed in­to state cus­tody fol­low­ing his ap­pear­ance at the Siparia Mag­is­trates’ Court yes­ter­day.

un­der in­ves­ti­ga­tion for al­leged­ly beat­ing his 11-year-old son and then in­sert­ing his ser­vice-is­sued pis­tol in­to the young­ster’s mouth be­cause the boy stayed up late and did not take a bath when he was or­dered to.

Health in­spec­tors and lo­cal gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials are prepar­ing to roll out in­ten­si­fied spray­ing ef­forts af­ter the Min­istry of Health iden­ti­fied a clus­ter of malar­ia cas­es in South Trinidad. Malar­ia, a mos­qui­to-borne dis­ease caused by the Plas­mod­i­um par­a­site, is trans­mit­ted through the bite of in­fect­ed fe­male Anophe­les mos­qui­toes. While malar­ia is not en­dem­ic to T&T, the min­istry said cas­es are typ­i­cal­ly im­port­ed or in­tro­duced, with 153 record­ed be­tween 2015 and 2024, av­er­ag­ing 15 per year.

For­mer pub­lic util­i­ties min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les and the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) are rub­bish­ing claims by a Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress MP that con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed wa­ter from re­cent­ly dug wells in Moru­ga/Table­land could lead to can­cer.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed a fish­er­man af­ter seiz­ing 17.3 grammes of co­caine from his home in Erin on Wednes­day, which was al­leged­ly hid­den in a toi­let bowl.

The Spe­cial Vic­tims De­part­ment of the TTPS is in­ves­ti­gat­ing a re­port of rape at a sec­ondary school in cen­tral Trinidad on Valen­tine’s Day, which has now led to the 13-year-old vic­tim be­com­ing preg­nant.

Po­lice suc­cess­ful­ly ap­pre­hend­ed four men who car­ried out a home in­va­sion at Re­al Spring, Val­sayn yes­ter­day, and robbed a res­i­dent of cash and valu­ables be­fore leav­ing in a wait­ing car which they lat­er aban­doned af­ter the neigh­bour­hood watch group raised an alarm.

Prospec­tive UNC can­di­date for Barataria/San Juan Sad­dam Ho­sein ques­tioned what he claimed was a $7.1 mil­lion price tag made to Ernst & Young (EY) for con­sul­tan­cy ser­vices to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Rev­enue Au­thor­i­ty (TTRA).