Ques­tions about prop­er safe­ty pro­to­cols have arisen fol­low­ing the death of a Freeport mo­torist in an ac­ci­dent in­volv­ing a truck trans­port­ing a con­tain­er on Wednes­day.

A joint po­lice and tax en­force­ment ex­er­cise in the St Joseph dis­trict has un­cov­ered near­ly $1.9 mil­lion in un­paid gam­ing tax­es af­ter checks at sev­er­al li­censed premis­es on Thurs­day.

A for­mer es­tate con­sta­ble with the Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty has won his ap­peal over be­ing con­vict­ed of as­sault­ing and ob­struct­ing a po­lice of­fi­cer.

Al­though the labour move­ment has been in ex­is­tence in T&T for over a cen­tu­ry, it still does not have a li­brary with a col­lec­tion of its ac­com­plish­ments and his­to­ry.

Se­nior Coun­sel Is­rael Ra­jah-Khan is among this year’s re­cip­i­ents of hon­orary doc­tor­al de­grees from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT).

A mo­tion to ex­tend the State of Emer­gency (SoE) for a sec­ond time was passed in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives on Fri­day with 27 Gov­ern­ment votes in favour and 12 Op­po­si­tion votes against. There were no ab­sten­tions.

The Su­per­mar­ket As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (SATT) has as­sured the pub­lic that there is no need for pan­ic buy­ing de­spite re­cent news re­ports.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo has at­trib­uted de­lays in salary pay­ments for some pub­lic ser­vants and state em­ploy­ees to on­go­ing gov­ern­ment min­istry re­align­ments that took ef­fect at the start of Oc­to­ber, and says af­fect­ed of­fi­cers will be paid by Mon­day.

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie on Fri­day led de­bate in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives on a mo­tion to ex­tend the State of Emer­gency (SoE) for an­oth­er three months, say­ing the mea­sure re­mains a vi­tal tool in the State’s ef­forts to dis­man­tle crim­i­nal gangs and dis­rupt or­gan­ised crime net­works.

Ac­tive du­ty sol­diers have been or­dered to re­port to du­ty and as­sem­ble at dif­fer­ent mil­i­tary in­stal­la­tions as part of a large-scale brief­ing on on­go­ing se­cu­ri­ty as­sess­ments, sources said.

An 18-year-old preg­nant woman is among the 19 peo­ple re­port­ed­ly killed when Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa, the cat­e­go­ry 5 storm slammed in­to the is­land on Tues­day, the Ja­maica Glean­er news­pa­per re­port­ed on Fri­day.

The U.N. hu­man rights chief said Fri­day that U.S. mil­i­tary strikes against boats in the Caribbean Sea and east­ern Pa­cif­ic Ocean al­leged­ly car­ry­ing il­le­gal drugs from South Amer­i­ca are “un­ac­cept­able” and must stop.