Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) Pres­i­dent Fe­l­isha Thomas is again ac­cus­ing the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) of stalling the “10 per cent” wage ne­go­ti­a­tions and is now ask­ing if he has been giv­en a man­date to block pub­lic ser­vants from get­ting their back­pay by Christ­mas.

The Film Com­mis­sion at Glob­al Trinidad and To­ba­go is con­grat­u­lat­ing lo­cal ac­tor and co­me­di­an Jr Lee (Ger­vail Lemo) for his grow­ing in­ter­na­tion­al pro­file af­ter his role in the Cana­di­an com­e­dy The Of­fice Movers helped se­cure the show’s re­new­al for a third sea­son.

The Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion says tech­ni­cal prob­lems that dis­rupt­ed op­er­a­tions have been ful­ly re­solved, and li­cens­ing of­fices will re­open on Wednes­day 19 No­vem­ber at 8am.

A 16-year-old Form Four stu­dent was de­tained ear­li­er to­day af­ter po­lice dis­cov­ered cannabis and a con­cealed weapon in his pos­ses­sion at a sec­ondary school in Va­len­cia.

The Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Of­fice is­sued an alert for 6.15 pm to 7.45 pm to­day, warn­ing that a short lived band of strong wind with cloudi­ness and show­ers is ap­proach­ing the is­lands.

All li­cens­ing ser­vices across Trinidad and To­ba­go have been tem­porar­i­ly sus­pend­ed be­cause of a ma­jor tech­ni­cal mal­func­tion af­fect­ing crit­i­cal sys­tems, the Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion said to­day.

The on­go­ing mil­i­tary train­ing be­tween Unit­ed States Marines and the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force does not un­der­mine Trinidad and To­ba­go’s sov­er­eign­ty, says pres­i­dent of the Greater San Fer­nan­do Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce, Ki­ran Singh.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice says in­mate Ja­mal Joseph, who es­caped from the Car­rera Con­vict Prison on No­vem­ber 14, has been re­cap­tured af­ter a co­or­di­nat­ed re­sponse in­volv­ing po­lice of­fi­cers and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ex­pand­ed her Gov­ern­ment’s clam­p­down on noise pol­lu­tion, or­der­ing an im­me­di­ate halt to fetes at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um and the Jean Pierre Com­plex ex­cept dur­ing the de­fined Car­ni­val win­dow.

The Cen­tral Bank of Suri­name (CB­vS) says a team from the In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF) is on a vis­it to the Dutch-speak­ing Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) as part of an Ar­ti­cle IV mis­sion.

Is­raeli Prime Min­is­ter Ben­jamin Ne­tanyahu on Tues­day ap­plaud­ed the Unit­ed Na­tions’ ap­proval of the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion’s blue­print to se­cure and gov­ern Gaza, while Hamas re­ject­ed the plan as a for­eign in­stru­ment of con­trol.

Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro is ac­cus­ing the gov­ern­ment of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of act­ing be­hind the backs of T&T’s cit­i­zens and the mil­i­tary au­thor­i­ties to turn the coun­try in­to an “air­craft car­ri­er” against Venezuela.