Con­fu­sion over who holds the tourism port­fo­lio sparked a heat­ed 18-minute ex­change in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly’s ple­nary sit­ting on Thurs­day evening.

Tem­po­rary Tourism Sec­re­tary Zor­isha Hack­ett and the To­ba­go Oc­to­ber Car­ni­val As­so­ci­a­tion (TO­CA) are call­ing for ur­gent ad­di­tion­al air­lift to the is­land as the de­mand for flights in­creas­es due to the Oc­to­ber Car­ni­val.

The Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion has re­vived plans to pedes­tri­anise a sec­tion of Char­lotte Street, say­ing the move could re­duce traf­fic con­ges­tion, im­prove pub­lic safe­ty, and sup­port both ven­dors and brick-and-mor­tar busi­ness­es.

High Court Judge West­min James has award­ed a nurs­ing as­sis­tant $850,000 in dam­ages af­ter she was forced to re­tire med­ical­ly un­fit, fol­low­ing a fall at the Cen­tral Block of the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal in 2018. The 53-year-old nurs­ing as­sis­tant, who did not want to be iden­ti­fied for fear she might be tar­get­ed, said that since the in­ci­dent, she has suf­fered a sig­nif­i­cant loss of earn­ings. The rul­ing was hand­ed down on Sep­tem­ber 23 af­ter the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty con­ced­ed li­a­bil­i­ty.

Ap­peal Court Judges Mark Mo­hammed, Ricky Rahim and Maria Wil­son are set to de­liv­er a his­toric judg­ment that will set the guide­lines on re-sen­tenc­ing mur­der con­victs.

A man who has re­port­ed­ly gone in­to hid­ing af­ter the mur­der of 12-year-old Mari­ah Seenath, is open­ly deny­ing any con­nec­tion to her death.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said around 7 pm, of­fi­cers were on mo­bile pa­trol near SWA­HA Hin­du Col­lege, Cu­napo South­ern Main Road, San­gre Grande, when they ob­served a man dri­ving a white Hilux ve­hi­cle look­ing sus­pi­cious.

Op­po­si­tion MP Mar­vin Gon­za­les says re­form­ing the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions and not the pro­posed stand-your-ground leg­is­la­tion will im­pact the crime sit­u­a­tion.

A po­lice of­fi­cer has been placed on sev­en days’ in­jury leave af­ter he was struck by a stone thrown by a men­tal­ly ill man in Cou­va on Wednes­day night.

The au­top­sy on 57-year-old Shelawai­htie “Meera” Be­dasse has been post­poned af­ter her body was redi­rect­ed from the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in Port-of-Spain to the San Fer­nan­do mor­tu­ary, leav­ing rel­a­tives even more con­vinced that her death was linked to ex­tor­tion and death threats pri­or to her dis­ap­pear­ance.

The fa­ther of En­rique Gar­cia, an off-du­ty sol­dier killed by po­lice af­ter a pur­port­ed shoot-out, is deny­ing that pho­tos cir­cu­lat­ing of a man show­ing gang signs is his son.

I walked through the doors of CNC3 on Oc­to­ber 21, 2005, not know­ing that this place would be­come more than just a work­place — it would be­come a sec­ond home.