The Court of Ap­peal has resched­uled the hear­ing of lit­i­ga­tion over the ter­mi­na­tion of more than 300 Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) con­trac­tors.

Chil­dren’s Court Judge Ni­rala Bansee-Sookhai on Tues­day freed an 18-year-old man, af­ter up­hold­ing a no-case sub­mis­sion made by his at­tor­ney.

The State has been grant­ed per­mis­sion to chal­lenge at the Privy Coun­cil a Court of Ap­peal rul­ing which award­ed $300,000 in dam­ages, plus ad­di­tion­al costs, to To­ba­go res­i­dent Col­in Sim­mons.

Pre­lim­i­nary in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to yes­ter­day’s fire at St Bene­dict’s Col­lege, San Fer­nan­do, which forced stu­dents and teach­ers to evac­u­ate, sug­gest it may not have been ac­ci­den­tal, a se­nior fire of­fi­cer has said.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has in­struct­ed the Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um (NP) Mar­ket­ing Com­pa­ny to con­duct an in­quiry in­to the death of 47-year-old Ria George. George, a su­per­mar­ket su­per­vi­sor from Debe, died on Sat­ur­day af­ter suf­fer­ing third-de­gree burns to 32 per cent of her body dur­ing an ex­plo­sion, al­leged­ly caused by a leak­ing 20 lb LPG cylin­der. The in­ci­dent oc­curred in her kitchen al­most two months ago.

Co­me­di­an Ger­vail Sean Lemo, known as Jr Lee, has ex­pand­ed his per­for­mances to in­ter­na­tion­al stages, tak­ing his brand of Caribbean hu­mour to au­di­ences in Cana­da and the wider re­gion.

Po­lice Con­sta­ble Amon An­drews re­mains in a crit­i­cal con­di­tion at hos­pi­tal af­ter be­ing am­bushed and shot mul­ti­ple times dur­ing an at­tempt­ed rob­bery yes­ter­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) has again sus­pend­ed its rou­tine fore­cast prod­ucts and ser­vices at the Syn­op­tic (Fore­cast­ing) Branch due to a staff short­age.

The Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um Mar­ket­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (NP) is re­mind­ing the pub­lic of crit­i­cal safe­ty steps to fol­low when han­dling LPG cylin­ders, fol­low­ing re­ports of an ex­plo­sion that re­sult­ed in the death of Ria George.

The Amer­i­can Cham­ber of Com­merce of Trinidad and To­ba­go (AM­CHAM T&T) has wel­comed the an­nounce­ment by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad Bisses­sar and Unit­ed States Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio re­gard­ing U.S. sup­port for the Drag­on Gas pro­pos­al.

Re­pub­lic Bank has ad­vised that it is ex­pe­ri­enc­ing a tech­ni­cal chal­lenge with its teller sys­tem that has re­sult­ed in ser­vice de­lays at its branch­es.

The Bar­ba­dos gov­ern­ment has hint­ed at the pos­si­bil­i­ty of changes be­ing made to the Eco­nom­ic Sub­stance Act, chang­ing the num­ber of ways in which the is­land moves from be­ing a nom­i­nal tax ju­ris­dic­tion to be­ing a pref­er­en­tial tax ju­ris­dic­tion.