The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has bro­ken its si­lence, de­fend­ing Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der against on­go­ing al­le­ga­tions that his meet­ing with al­leged gang leader Ra­jaee Ali ear­li­er this year was un­sanc­tioned.

Dra­ma erupt­ed at City Hall yes­ter­day as dai­ly-paid work­ers stormed the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion (SFCC), de­mand­ing over­due salaries, say­ing fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions have been press­ing them for pay­ments.

Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) leader Prakash Ra­mad­har has raised con­cerns about the state of the Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health Au­thor­i­ty (OS­HA), ques­tion­ing whether the in­sti­tu­tion has been com­pro­mised and call­ing for a thor­ough in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

Close to 100 stu­dents from sec­ondary schools across Trinidad were cel­e­brat­ed at the Trinidad Eye Hos­pi­tal’s (TEH) in­au­gur­al Es­say Writ­ing Com­pe­ti­tion prize-giv­ing cer­e­mo­ny on Sep­tem­ber 18.

On the glob­al stage, T&T has reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to fos­ter­ing a safe and just world for women and girls.

BEI­JING, CHI­NA—There’s no deny­ing that Chi­na is a glob­al pow­er­house when it comes to in­no­va­tion and tech­nol­o­gy. Ro­bots play­ing in­stru­ments, or even blend­ing in as hu­mans, is no longer sur­pris­ing. In main­land Chi­na, ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence (AI) isn’t just pow­er­ing fac­to­ries and apps—it’s be­ing taught in schools, in­te­grat­ed in­to health­care, and chang­ing the way peo­ple live.

Agri­cul­ture Min­is­ter Ravi Rati­ram says farm­ers and cit­i­zens will soon be “smil­ing” when the up­com­ing na­tion­al bud­get is pre­sent­ed, with one of its high­lights be­ing a new cas­sa­va pro­cess­ing fa­cil­i­ty at Dum­fries, La Ro­main.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe is be­ing asked to in­ves­ti­gate re­ports of vic­tim­i­sa­tion, ha­rass­ment, and nepo­tism at the Med­ical Records De­part­ment of the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, which is af­fect­ing the morale of staff.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she val­ues uni­ty with Cari­com lead­ers but in­sists her first du­ty is to the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The road fa­tal­i­ty fig­ure has in­creased af­ter a San Juan man was knocked down on Mon­day as he crossed the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route (PBR) at the Croisée, San Juan.

The Amer­i­can Cham­ber of Com­merce of Trinidad and To­ba­go (AM­CHAM T&T) has signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing (MOU) with Fu­ture­Plus, a Unit­ed King­dom-based sus­tain­abil­i­ty man­age­ment and ESG re­port­ing plat­form.

Two men are in po­lice cus­tody fol­low­ing a swift re­sponse to an armed rob­bery on Mon­day morn­ing along An­duez Trace, Los Iros Beach Road, Erin.