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.

Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed (TSTT) has ap­point­ed Reza Ho­sein as its act­ing Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer, with the change com­ing af­ter the com­pa­ny’s board re­viewed the per­for­mance of for­mer act­ing CEO Keino Cox.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath says the board of the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT) has or­dered an im­me­di­ate re­view of a man­age­ment de­ci­sion af­fect­ing about 150 call cen­tre work­ers con­tract­ed through Am­plia.

Com­ing from a sin­gle-par­ent house­hold, Sum­mer Lash­ley and her moth­er Dar­lene Renn faced fi­nan­cial dif­fi­cul­ties jug­gling do­mes­tic and school re­spon­si­bil­i­ties, some­times run­ning short of funds to pay for lessons.

De­spite wide­spread re­ports on so­cial me­dia that stu­dents were ex­pe­ri­enc­ing dif­fi­cul­ties ac­cess­ing their Caribbean Sec­ondary Ed­u­ca­tion Cer­tifi­cate (CSEC) and Caribbean Ad­vanced Pro­fi­cien­cy Ex­am­i­na­tion (CAPE) re­sults on­line yes­ter­day, both Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath and Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) pres­i­dent Crys­tal Ashe said they had not re­ceived any re­ports of sig­nif­i­cant prob­lems with the sys­tem.

Weeks af­ter mak­ing his­to­ry on the in­ter­na­tion­al stage, Na­pari­ma Col­lege stu­dent Regi­nald Mo­hammed has added an­oth­er achieve­ment to an al­ready im­pres­sive aca­d­e­m­ic record, se­cur­ing five dis­tinc­tions in his Caribbean Ad­vanced Pro­fi­cien­cy Ex­am­i­na­tion (CAPE) ex­am­i­na­tions.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is again chal­leng­ing the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) to iden­ti­fy the of­fence or con­duct it be­lieves would jus­ti­fy the Unit­ed States re­vok­ing his visa and that of for­mer prime min­is­ter and Op­po­si­tion MP Stu­art Young.

The Ju­di­cia­ry is mov­ing to re­sume in-per­son hear­ings at its Mag­is­trates’/Dis­trict Courts when the new 2026/2027 Law Term opens next month.

Trini­bad artistes glo­ri­fy­ing gun vi­o­lence will not be fea­tured in this year’s To­ba­go Car­ni­val.

A man has lost his case over be­ing held on a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) for al­leged­ly en­gag­ing in il­le­gal quar­ry­ing and gang ac­tiv­i­ty.

A 20-year-old man held un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) has dis­con­tin­ued his law­suit over be­ing de­nied ac­cess to free le­gal rep­re­sen­ta­tion while seek­ing to chal­lenge his de­ten­tion be­fore the State of Emer­gency (SoE) Re­view Tri­bunal.