A day af­ter three men at­tempt­ed to steal a taxi from the San Fer­nan­do to Macaulay taxi stand, calls are be­ing made for the po­lice to in­crease pa­trols on High Street, San Fer­nan­do.

Par­ents and guardians are be­ing urged to get their chil­dren vac­ci­nat­ed against the COVID-19 virus.

The Me­dia As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (MATT) has spo­ken out again Trinidad-born US-based rap­per Nic­ki Mi­naj for her at­tacks on lo­cal re­porter Shar­lene Ram­per­sad on so­cial me­dia.

A fam­i­ly dis­pute is be­lieved to be the mo­tive be­hind the mur­der of a Clax­ton Bay moth­er and her 21-year-old daugh­ter who were both shot in the head on Fri­day.

Pres­i­dent of the T&T Wid­ows As­so­ci­a­tion Ter­rence Hon­ore is call­ing on the pub­lic to show more care for the el­der­ly wid­ows in their com­mu­ni­ty.

Brac­ing for flood dev­as­ta­tion, Wood­land res­i­dents staged the sec­ond week of protests as they called on Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um and the Min­istry of Works to re­build the river­banks in the area. They al­so want a pump to be sta­tioned in the area and im­me­di­ate re­pairs to the 14 flood­gates at Trinidad Point.

Around 8 pm, an uniden­ti­fied man was killed while in Aranguez. Res­i­dents of Fred­die Street re­port­ed hear­ing gun­shots and con­tact­ed the po­lice. Of­fi­cers found the man ly­ing at the side of the road. He had been shot sev­er­al times.

Re­in­stat­ing Prop­er­ty Tax in T&T should be placed in the ap­pro­pri­ate con­text of what has been hap­pen­ing in the na­tion­al eco­nom­ic space. This is the view of Dr Mar­lene Attzs.

The cur­rent es­ti­mates of the Prop­er­ty Tax to be col­lect­ed are to the tune of $504 mil­lion an­nu­al­ly, so that is about three-and-a-half times more than what prop­er­ty own­ers paid in 2009, ac­cord­ing to Afra Ray­mond, char­tered sur­vey­or and man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of Ray­mond & Pierre Lim­it­ed.

An il­le­gal quar­ry­ing op­er­a­tion in Ric­ki Trace, Ravine Sable, Long­denville, has been shut down by the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA).

Le­git­i­mate ho­tel and ac­com­mo­da­tion op­er­a­tors are be­ing dis­ad­van­taged since they re­mit the ho­tel tax to Gov­ern­ment but oth­er op­er­a­tors who run Air B&B places or dwellings con­vert­ed to ac­com­mo­da­tion don’t re­mit the tax.

Chair­man of the Daichin Group of Com­pa­nies, Derek Chin, is con­cerned about the weak­en­ing re­la­tion­ship be­tween the gov­ern­ment and the pri­vate sec­tor over op­er­at­ing in the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.