Thir­ty cab­ins were made avail­able to truck­ers aboard yes­ter­day’s sail­ing of the MV Gold­en Car­ri­er from Trinidad to To­ba­go.

While the Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ) re­mains un­der pub­lic scruti­ny fol­low­ing re­ports of con­cerns raised by judges over the re­gion­al court’s man­age­ment, the court has moved to change the way judges are as­signed to pre­side over cas­es.

The Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ) said on Wednes­day that it has im­ple­ment­ed—with “im­me­di­ate ef­fect”— re­vised arrange­ments for the as­sign­ment of ju­di­cial pan­els.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is in­ves­ti­gat­ing a se­ries of bomb threats re­port­ed at eight lo­ca­tions across Trinidad on Wednes­day.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says he fol­lowed es­tab­lished pro­ce­dures when he took five days of emer­gency leave ear­li­er this month to trav­el out­side Trinidad and To­ba­go, but he re­mains tight-lipped about the rea­son for the trip.

Three peo­ple de­tained dur­ing a ma­jor hu­man traf­fick­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion in To­ba­go have been charged fol­low­ing months of in­tel­li­gence gath­er­ing and sur­veil­lance by the Counter Traf­fick­ing Unit (CTU).

PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil leader Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis has con­demned the treat­ment of truck­ers aboard the MV Gold­en Car­ri­er.

To mark the Au­gust 17 birth­day of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s on­ly No­bel Prize win­ner so far, Friends of Mr Biswas opens up a new per­spec­tive on the writer to­mor­row, ex­plor­ing his work un­der the wide-rang­ing top­ic “Moth­er­ing”. Naipaul’s in­ter­con­nect­ed re­la­tion­ships be­tween his ac­tu­al moth­er , Moth­er Trinidad, Moth­er Eng­land and Moth­er In­dia will be the com­plex and fas­ci­nat­ing mo­tif of the event.

Star Sab­ga, who is al­leged to be the main con­spir­a­tor in a plot to mur­der Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials, has made at least three re­quests to be seen by a med­ical doc­tor while un­der house ar­rest at her West­moor­ings apart­ment. How­ev­er, she is yet to get a re­sponse from Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro on the mat­ter.

A Pe­nal woman is among five peo­ple for whom Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDO) have been is­sued.

NEW YORK — The fu­ner­al of a Trinidad and To­ba­go woman and her daugh­ter, who were shot and killed by a rel­a­tive af­ter he had bar­ri­cad­ed him­self in their home late last month, took place in New York yes­ter­day, even as he was charged with their mur­ders.

Trade union lead­ers are di­vid­ed over a call from with­in the labour move­ment for lead­ers to put po­lit­i­cal loy­al­ties aside and stand up for work­ers fac­ing re­trench­ment, stag­nant wages and grow­ing un­cer­tain­ty over their fu­tures.