For­mer Cen­tral Bank Gover­nor Dr Alvin Hi­laire has sig­nalled his in­ten­tion to sue the State for wrong­ful dis­missal.

De­spite promis­es that they will be re­hired and giv­en one month’s salary while the Gov­ern­ment con­ducts an au­dit in­to im­prop­er Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) con­tracts, for­mer work­ers staged a protest at the com­pa­ny’s Ste Madeleine head­quar­ters yes­ter­day.

The Pa­tri­ot­ic Front has voiced strong sup­port for the re­cent­ly passed Prime Min­is­ter’s Pen­sion Amend­ment Bill but is not hap­py with thou­sands of CEPEP work­ers be­ing placed on the bread­line.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment PRO Faris Al-Rawi is rais­ing se­ri­ous con­cerns about the Cab­i­net’s de­ci­sion to with­draw the se­cu­ri­ty de­tail of for­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young.

Two more Mus­lim or­gan­i­sa­tions have raised con­cerns about Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Mo­di’s of­fi­cial vis­it to Trinidad and To­ba­go.

As T&T pre­pares to wel­come In­dia’s Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Mo­di to­day, par­ents, teach­ers and ed­u­ca­tion stake­hold­ers are not pleased with the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to dis­rupt schools.

St Vin­cent and the Grenadines Prime Min­is­ter Dr Ralph Gon­salves ays his com­ment that T&T cur­ren­cy is like “mo­nop­oly mon­ey” was tak­en out of con­text, and he will be send­ing a copy of his speech to En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal.  

In a fi­nal court judg­ment, the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) has been or­dered to pay more than $4 mil­lion to 13 for­mer con­tract work­ers it fired af­ter the 2021 THA elec­tions.

With the PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil close to com­plet­ing its list of can­di­dates for the up­com­ing To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tions, po­lit­i­cal leader An­cil Den­nis is ask­ing sup­port­ers to give the par­ty a fresh chance.

Route 2 Maxi Taxi As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Bren­ton Knights is call­ing for a heav­ier po­lice pres­ence on the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route (PBR) at night.

The Na­tion­al In­fra­struc­ture De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (NID­CO) has an­nounced a tem­po­rary traf­fic arrange­ment along the Con­nec­tor Road to the Elmi­na Clarke-Allen High­way. From to­day traf­fic will be re­strict­ed to a sin­gle lane as sta­bil­i­sa­tion works be­gin on a sec­tion of the road­way.

To­ba­go po­lice of­fi­cers are still search­ing for a group of men who bru­tal­ly at­tacked three su­per­mar­ket work­ers while they were asleep and made off with thou­sands of dol­lars in cash dur­ing a rob­bery ear­ly Mon­day morn­ing in Scar­bor­ough.