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).

Two weeks af­ter dis­man­tling a sus­pect­ed hu­man traf­fick­ing ring in Cara­cas, Venezue­lan po­lice have res­cued 14 peo­ple who were al­leged­ly be­ing pre­pared for trans­port to Trinidad and To­ba­go for forced labour.

A man want­ed in con­nec­tion with the mur­der of a po­lice of­fi­cer was shot and killed by po­lice dur­ing an ex­change of gun­fire in Matu­ra on Tues­day night.

While the planned US$750 mil­lion re­vival of the for­mer Arcelor­Mit­tal steel plant at Point Lisas could pro­vide a much-need­ed boost to Trinidad and To­ba­go’s econ­o­my, two econ­o­mists are warn­ing that the po­ten­tial risks and fine print sur­round­ing the in­vest­ment can­not be ig­nored.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s plans to re­vive the for­mer Arcelor­Mit­tal steel plant at Point Lisas are rais­ing ques­tions over how the coun­try will pro­duce vana­di­um, where the raw ma­te­r­i­al will come from and whether there is enough en­er­gy ca­pac­i­ty to sup­port the am­bi­tious plans.