As power­boat en­thu­si­asts across the coun­try seek var­i­ous van­tage points to en­joy the Great Race spec­ta­cle on Sat­ur­day, one fan will be do­ing so from the com­fort of his home—in the sea—at Store Bay.

For­mer En­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young is call­ing on Gov­ern­ment to pro­vide more de­tails about the pro­posed re­open­ing of the Point Lisas steel plant, while urg­ing the new own­ers to en­gage the Steel Work­ers’ Union of Trinidad and To­ba­go (SWUTT).

Econ­o­mist Dr Mar­lene Attzs says the pro­posed US$750 mil­lion re­vival of the Point Lisas steel plant could pro­vide a sig­nif­i­cant boost to Trinidad and To­ba­go’s econ­o­my, but be­lieves the true mea­sure of the in­vest­ment will be the last­ing ben­e­fits it cre­ates for the coun­try.

Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment and Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers (NUGFW) pres­i­dent gen­er­al Christo­pher Streete says “some­body dropped the ball” in im­ple­ment­ing new salaries for ap­prox­i­mate­ly 20,000 work­ers who were grant­ed a 10 per cent wage in­crease ear­li­er this year.

Laven­tille West MP Ka­reem Mar­celle is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to im­me­di­ate­ly ap­point a board of di­rec­tors for the East Port-of-Spain De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny, ques­tion­ing whether the pro­longed de­lay sig­nals an in­ten­tion to shut down the com­pa­ny.

Cepep work­ers in To­ba­go have be­gun tran­si­tion­ing from san­i­ta­tion and land­scap­ing to farm­ing, as the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) seeks to boost agri­cul­tur­al pro­duc­tion on the is­land.

Heads of Ju­di­cia­ry from sev­en ju­ris­dic­tions that sub­scribe to the Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ), along with the Or­gan­i­sa­tion of East­ern Caribbean States (OECS) Bar As­so­ci­a­tion and the Or­gan­i­sa­tion of Com­mon­wealth Caribbean Bar As­so­ci­a­tions (OC­C­BA), have ex­pressed con­fi­dence in the re­gion­al court, fol­low­ing re­ports of al­leged is­sues con­cern­ing its in­ter­nal ad­min­is­tra­tion.

A man­i­cou caused a se­ries of pow­er dis­rup­tions that af­fect­ed cus­tomers in the Sad­dle Road and San­ta Cruz ar­eas on Tues­day night, T&TEC gen­er­al man­ag­er Ian Ram­rat­tan has said.

A 28-year-old man was ar­rest­ed by of­fi­cers of the Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion, af­ter he was al­leged­ly found with co­caine and mar­i­jua­na in Curepe on Tues­day.

A 28-year-old man was ar­rest­ed and charged af­ter mu­nic­i­pal po­lice al­leged­ly found co­caine and mar­i­jua­na in his pos­ses­sion dur­ing a pa­trol in Curepe on Tues­day.

The on­go­ing Ebo­la out­break in Con­go is on track to sur­pass the dead­liest one in his­to­ry that killed over 11,000 peo­ple, the head of the World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion said Wednes­day.

The same day prison of­fi­cers spot­ted a man at­tempt­ing to throw con­tra­band items of­fi­cers found im­pro­vised weapons in the ceil­ing of the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre (ECRC).