Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the Gov­ern­ment has a team work­ing to get the new Cen­tral Block of the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal "up and run­ning once and for all," but she has not pro­vid­ed a time­line for when the fa­cil­i­ty will be­come op­er­a­tional.

A Unit­ed King­dom-based dig­i­tal jour­nal­ist has been or­dered to pay over $250,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to an em­ploy­ee of the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, who he named as be­ing part of an al­leged plot to desta­bilise the coun­try. 

The Na­tion­al Par­ent Teacher As­so­ci­a­tion (NPTA) is call­ing for a bal­ance be­tween dis­ci­pline and sup­port af­ter four school­boys were pub­licly filmed apol­o­gis­ing for fight­ing on the first day of the new school term.

The fate of a To­ba­go school­boy, who was pre­vi­ous­ly de­tained fol­low­ing the death of his el­der­ly rel­a­tive, re­mains un­cer­tain.

Siparia May­or Dood­nath Mayrhoo yes­ter­day in­struct­ed a Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Of­fi­cer to es­cort a Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) al­der­man from a spe­cial statu­to­ry meet­ing of the Siparia Bor­ough Coun­cil, prompt­ing the oth­er PNM coun­cil­lors to walk out.

The Con­trac­tors and Gen­er­al Work­ers Trade Union (CGW­TU) is de­mand­ing that the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion be­gin cal­cu­lat­ing out­stand­ing back­pay owed to dai­ly-paid work­ers.

Six months af­ter the Counter Traf­fick­ing Unit (CTU) launched Op­er­a­tion Pur­ple Ryain in Rio Claro, a third sus­pect has been charged in con­nec­tion with the on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

The Fire Ser­vice As­so­ci­a­tions of the First and Sec­ond Di­vi­sions have joint­ly sub­mit­ted a re­vised coun­ter­pro­pos­al to the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) for the 2020–2022 bar­gain­ing pe­ri­od.

The Unit­ed Na­tions Pop­u­la­tion Fund (UNF­PA) has do­nat­ed a ful­ly equipped mo­bile health clin­ic to the Min­istry of Health as part of ef­forts to im­prove ac­cess to health­care in un­der­served and hard-to-reach com­mu­ni­ties across Trinidad and To­ba­go.

For­mer En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has ac­cused the UNC ad­min­is­tra­tion of at­tempt­ing to “rewrite his­to­ry” over Trinidad and To­ba­go’s re­la­tion­ship with Venezuela, fol­low­ing com­ments by En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is seek­ing the pub­lic’s ur­gent as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing 17-year-old Sha­nia Sa­roop of San Juan.

The Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO) says it is pro­vi­did­ng new op­por­tu­ni­ties for Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean (LAC) to ac­cess lenaca­pavir as part of the pre­ven­ta­tive med­i­cine to curb the spread of HIV through­out the re­gion.