Spir­it Air­lines said Mon­day that it has filed for bank­rupt­cy pro­tec­tion and will at­tempt to re­boot as it strug­gles to re­cov­er from the pan­dem­ic-caused swoon in trav­el and a failed at­tempt to sell the air­line to Jet­Blue.

Health au­thor­i­ties say two peo­ple have been placed in iso­la­tion amid fears that they may have con­tract­ed measles from their re­turn from ar­eas known to have measles cir­cu­lat­ing.

A for­mer deputy Cen­tral Bank gov­er­nor is voic­ing the un­pop­u­lar opin­ion that the salaries of the Pres­i­dent, Prime Min­is­ter, Op­po­si­tion Leader, and oth­ers should be in­creased.

Those were the words of thanks and en­cour­age­ment from the Miss Trinidad and To­ba­go or­gan­i­sa­tion for Jenelle Thongs who rep­re­sent­ed this coun­try at the Miss Uni­verse pageant in Mex­i­co City.

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Derek Ram­samooj says the Salaries Re­view Com­mis­sion should re­veal what met­rics it us­es to quan­ti­fy salary ad­just­ments.

The ma­jor­i­ty of Gov­ern­ment min­is­ters and Op­po­si­tion MPs re­mained tight-lipped yes­ter­day on the Salaries Re­view Com­mis­sion’s (SRC) rec­om­men­da­tions for a pro­posed pay hike for top State of­fi­cials, in­clud­ing Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley, Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo and Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert con­tin­ues to dig in his heels amid the on­go­ing de­bate about what should be done about the coun­try’s for­eign ex­change is­sues, say­ing if he float­ed the dol­lar food prices would sky­rock­et.

A Gov­ern­ment min­is­ter has ac­cused the pres­i­dent of the Fa­thers As­so­ci­a­tion of mak­ing her “feel bul­lied and ha­rassed” over an in­vi­ta­tion to at­tend this year’s In­ter­na­tion­al Men’s Day march.

Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan has re­vealed that track­ing down dri­vers who have amassed enough de­mer­it points to war­rant a sus­pen­sion of their per­mits has been dif­fi­cult.

While many South and Cen­tral Trinidad com­mu­ni­ties wel­comed the re­turn of wa­ter to their taps, frus­tra­tion over the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty’s (WASA) man­age­ment of the week-long Point Lisas De­sali­na­tion Plant shut­down per­sist­ed.

In the coastal town of Grand La­goon, Ma­yaro, where the waves meet the shore at Ec­cles Road, lives 20-year-old Chloe Ram­nar­ine.

A two-month-old ba­by nar­row­ly es­caped death when gun­men killed his fa­ther, who was sleep­ing next to him and his moth­er in Mara­bel­la yes­ter­day morn­ing.