Chair of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) Dr Ter­rance Drew has is­sued a mes­sage fol­low­ing the death of for­mer Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al Rod­er­ick Rain­ford.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is urg­ing mo­torists to fol­low traf­fic laws dur­ing the East­er pe­ri­od af­ter a DUI op­er­a­tion in the Port of Spain Di­vi­sion re­sult­ed in 15 ar­rests.

Since Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) ac­quired Air Ja­maica (AJ) in 2011, the com­pa­ny has in­curred loss­es of over TT$1.7 bil­lion (US$255 mil­lion) in man­ag­ing that base.

What be­gan as a mo­ment of pride and ex­cite­ment for Tri­cia Jef­fers, the wife of cy­clist Collin Wil­son, quick­ly turned to tragedy as she wit­nessed in re­al time the ac­ci­dent that claimed her hus­band’s life.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is cau­tion­ing the pub­lic about a scam in­volv­ing the im­per­son­ation of the Min­is­ter of Works and In­fra­struc­ture, Jear­lean John.

A San Fer­nan­do po­lice of­fi­cer is in crit­i­cal con­di­tion af­ter be­ing shot dur­ing an op­er­a­tion in La Ro­maine late Fri­day night.

Po­lice sus­pect that rob­bery was the mo­tive for the mur­der of a 35-year-old San Juan taxi dri­ver, whose body was dis­cov­ered ear­ly on Fri­day morn­ing.

A prob­lem­at­ic pro­cure­ment sys­tem and a “woe­ful­ly in­ad­e­quate” staffing es­tab­lish­ment have left pub­lic health fa­cil­i­ties in a state of pre­car­i­ous dys­func­tion, ac­cord­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA). While the pub­lic has long com­plained of a de­te­ri­o­rat­ing pa­tient ex­pe­ri­ence, the front­line work­ers tasked with main­tain­ing the sys­tem now ad­mit they are ter­ri­fied of the very wards they man­age.

Faced with what they call a “ter­ri­fy­ing” si­lence from the Gov­ern­ment and a pub­lic health sys­tem on the verge of col­lapse, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) has di­rect­ed its mem­ber­ship to down tools the mo­ment their eight-hour shifts end un­less they are paid full over­time. The in­dus­tri­al di­rec­tive fol­lows ex­plo­sive al­le­ga­tions of a “rack­et” lev­elled against nurs­ing staff by North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) Chair­man Dr Tim Gopeesingh.

Af­ter com­plaints about the late ad­di­tion of flights for East­er, the THA Di­vi­sion of Tourism and Caribbean Air­lines met on April 1 to dis­cuss air­lift for peak pe­ri­ods, with par­tic­u­lar em­pha­sis on the To­ba­go Car­ni­val, sched­uled for Oc­to­ber 30 to No­vem­ber 1.

A call is be­ing made for a com­plete and thor­ough foren­sic au­dit of the Na­tion­al Quar­ries Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed af­ter the most re­cent au­dit­ed fi­nan­cial state­ments of the state-owned ag­gre­gate com­pa­ny re­vealed loss­es of more than $23 mil­lion in fis­cal 2021 and 2020.

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo has ex­tend­ed East­er greet­ings to cit­i­zens of Trinidad and To­ba­go, urg­ing re­flec­tion on the mes­sage of the sea­son and its rel­e­vance to na­tion­al life.