Farm­ers, fish­er­folk and agro-busi­ness­es in To­ba­go will be able to ac­cess loans of up to $100,000 un­der the new To­ba­Grow Loan ini­tia­tive, launched yes­ter­day at the Di­vi­sion of Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment and So­cial Pro­tec­tion in Scar­bor­ough.

A trans­port com­pa­ny has suc­ceed­ed in its ap­peal against the Board of In­land Rev­enue (BIR) over its re­fusal to ac­cept a cor­po­ra­tion tax re­turn filed six years late.

A po­lice con­sta­ble has been giv­en the green light to pur­sue a ju­di­cial re­view over Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro’s al­leged de­lay in sign­ing a form re­quired for him to ac­cess in­jury ben­e­fits.

Some mem­bers of the ca­lyp­so fra­ter­ni­ty have passed a vote of no con­fi­dence against sit­ting Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) South/Cen­tral chair­man Steve “Ras Kom­man­da” Pas­call.

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) has lost a “stal­wart” with the death of coun­cil­lor Vashti Shar­main Sookhoo at the age of 60.

Trinidad and To­ba­go may miss to­day’s to­tal so­lar eclipse, but sky­watch­ers can still look up for an event­ful Au­gust fea­tur­ing shoot­ing stars, a pa­rade of plan­ets and, lat­er this month, a par­tial lu­nar eclipse vis­i­ble from the Caribbean.

The Unit­ed States Gov­ern­ment is work­ing to sup­port pri­vate sec­tor projects in Trinidad and To­ba­go as both coun­tries seek to deep­en in­vest­ment and trade ties.

An in­ves­ti­ga­tion is un­der­way to lo­cate three firearms be­long­ing to mu­nic­i­pal po­lice of­fi­cers in the Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion.

A man fled from the Port-of-Spain Prison on Tues­day morn­ing af­ter prison of­fi­cers caught him at­tempt­ing to throw a pack­age over the fa­cil­i­ty’s perime­ter wall.

The Bar­ba­dos-based De­vel­op­ment Bank (CDB) Tues­day said it is fi­nanc­ing a US$27.1 mil­lion ini­tia­tive to scale up hy­drom­e­te­o­ro­log­i­cal ser­vices and mul­ti-haz­ard ear­ly warn­ing sys­tems in Be­lize and Trinidad and To­ba­go.

For­mer UNC MP and for­mer Trinidad and To­ba­go Per­ma­nent Rep­re­sen­ta­tive to the Unit­ed Na­tions Rod­ney Charles is warn­ing that the Gov­ern­ment could face po­lit­i­cal and diplo­mat­ic fall­out if the bal­ance of pow­er shifts in Wash­ing­ton fol­low­ing the No­vem­ber mid-term elec­tions.

The threat of trop­i­cal cy­clone de­vel­op­ment from a trop­i­cal wave ap­proach­ing the Caribbean has di­min­ished, but fore­cast­ers are turn­ing their at­ten­tion to an­oth­er sys­tem far­ther east in the At­lantic that could en­counter more favourable con­di­tions for de­vel­op­ment.