State-owned Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of T&T (TSTT) has been in­voiced al­most half a mil­lion dol­lars for a three-day re­treat in To­ba­go for act­ing chief ex­ec­u­tive Keino Cox and 10 of its ex­ec­u­tives.

For the past two weeks, Guardian Me­dia In­ves­ti­ga­tions Desk has ex­am­ined the Gov­ern­ment’s re­cruit­ment dri­ve—through Em­ployTT—and its tan­gi­ble im­pact on the state of the coun­try’s un­em­ploy­ment.

For­mer Mi­nor­i­ty Leader Kelvon Mor­ris is “ac­tive­ly con­sid­er­ing” chal­leng­ing for­mer To­ba­go West MP Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis for lead­er­ship of the PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil.

“It does not look good, and it does not re­flect well on the con­duct of the busi­ness of Par­lia­ment at a time when there is so much so­cial ten­sion, lo­cal­ly, re­gion­al­ly and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly all over.”

Tem­po­rary Op­po­si­tion sen­a­tor Se­nior Coun­sel Lar­ry Lal­la says, de­spite the State of Emer­gency (SoE), cit­i­zens can still protest.

A 74-year-old woman died in a house fire in Mor­vant on Fri­day, af­ter se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures at the prop­er­ty pre­vent­ed neigh­bours from res­cu­ing her.

Quick ac­tion by rel­a­tives and neigh­bours helped save a San Fran­cique home from be­ing de­stroyed by fire on Fri­day, but two broth­ers who live there are now ap­peal­ing for help to re­pair their home.

Res­i­dents of Waller­field, Ari­ma, are call­ing on the po­lice to in­crease pa­trols fol­low­ing a se­ries of rob­beries and break-ins with­in the last cou­ple of weeks.

A PH taxi dri­ver was kid­napped and robbed by three men dur­ing the ear­ly hours on Fri­day, as he stopped to drop off a pas­sen­ger in Cunu­pia.

Po­lice said the 30-year-old of Sawmill Av­enue was held dur­ing Op­er­a­tion Steady GUARD – which was con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers in the Mor­vant dis­trict be­tween 5 pm and 9 pm.

On March 8 each year, we cel­e­brate In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Day, high­light­ing the achieve­ments of women who con­tin­ue to break bar­ri­ers, chal­lenge in­equal­i­ties, and shape de­vel­op­ment lo­cal­ly and glob­al­ly.

A PH taxi dri­ver was ab­duct­ed and robbed by three men dur­ing the ear­ly hours on Fri­day as he stopped to drop off a pas­sen­ger in Cunu­pia.