Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) coun­cil­lors staged an “un­prece­dent­ed” walk­out from a statu­to­ry meet­ing of the Tu­na­puna Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (TPRC) yes­ter­day, cit­ing what they de­scribed as per­sis­tent dis­re­spect di­rect­ed at the par­ty and its po­lit­i­cal leader.

The Gov­ern­ment is fac­ing mount­ing ques­tions and grow­ing scruti­ny af­ter fail­ing to re­spond to re­peat­ed re­quests for clar­i­ty on the fu­ture of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s in­volve­ment in the Cuban med­ical mis­sion pro­gramme, even as re­gion­al coun­ter­parts be­gin step­ping away from sim­i­lar arrange­ments.

De­spite com­mit­ting to pro­vide hu­man­i­tar­i­an as­sis­tance to the Cuban peo­ple amid their on­go­ing cri­sis, Trinidad and To­ba­go re­mains firm in its po­si­tion not to sup­port calls to end the Unit­ed States block­ade, which has been cit­ed as a con­tribut­ing fac­tor to the coun­try’s hard­ships.

A work­men’s com­pen­sa­tion claim, brought on be­half of the wid­ow of one of the vic­tims of the div­ing tragedy at Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny’s Pointe-a-Pierre fa­cil­i­ty in 2022, has been halt­ed. 

Six years af­ter be­ing ar­rest­ed and charged with dri­ving un­der the in­flu­ence of al­co­hol, re­sist­ing ar­rest and as­sault­ing a po­lice of­fi­cer, Naeem Ali, man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of Na­mal­co Con­struc­tion Ser­vices Ltd, has been cleared of all charges. Na­mal­co is a con­struc­tion com­pa­ny based in La Brea, Trinidad.

The line out­side an ice cream shop at South­Park Mall, San Fer­nan­do, be­gan to buck­le just hours af­ter the fi­nal pa­per was writ­ten, as chil­dren fresh out of the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) pressed for­ward, hop­ing to be among the first 100 to claim a vouch­er and a bank ac­count re­ward.

Years of stud­ies, prac­tice tests and ex­tra lessons came to an end for thou­sands of pri­ma­ry school stu­dents who sat the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am­i­na­tions yes­ter­day, as par­ents and their chil­dren cel­e­brat­ed the end of the first phase of their ed­u­ca­tion jour­ney.

To­ba­go stu­dents have cred­it­ed hard work and prayer for help­ing get them ready for yes­ter­day's Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA).

Op­er­a­tions at the Williamsville Health Cen­tre were dis­rupt­ed yes­ter­day morn­ing af­ter a pri­vate­ly-owned elec­tric­i­ty pole fell on­to the fa­cil­i­ty’s gate, ig­nit­ing a fire.

The broth­er of the mur­dered Ce­dros crick­eter, Rashme Deoa­jit, is plead­ing with any­one who knows the where­abouts of the sus­pect to alert the po­lice.

Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has con­firmed man­age­ment plans for fast bowlers Jay­den Seales, Shamar Joseph and Alzarri Joseph ahead of a se­ries of match­es.

The Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture and Fish­eries has launched a pi­lot pro­gramme for soy­abean, corn and black­eye beans pro­duc­tion with a plant­i­ng ex­er­cise at South­ern Main Road, Ca­roni.