Three sus­pects are cur­rent­ly in cus­tody fol­low­ing the mur­der of 44-year-old Sean Parisi­enne in Scar­bor­ough on Fri­day night.

While her name is be­ing put for­ward as a pos­si­ble can­di­date, new­ly ap­point­ed Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) To­ba­go Coun­cil leader Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis says she has no in­ter­est in a sen­a­to­r­i­al po­si­tion at this time.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is yet to de­cide on whether she will ac­cept Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates’ res­ig­na­tion.

Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice leader and for­mer sen­a­tor David Ab­du­lah says the Op­po­si­tion Leader should have act­ed more de­ci­sive­ly amid the con­tro­ver­sy in­volv­ing Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates.

Thou­sands of mo­torists and busi­ness op­er­a­tors were left frus­trat­ed yes­ter­day morn­ing af­ter a na­tion­wide tech­ni­cal fail­ure forced the tem­po­rary clo­sure of Li­cens­ing Of­fices across Trinidad and To­ba­go, dis­rupt­ing ap­point­ments and send­ing ear­ly ar­rivals home.

Frus­tra­tion is brew­ing in Spey­side as a wa­ter short­age has left res­i­dents and busi­ness­es feel­ing the strain.

A brief pow­er out­age af­fect­ed sev­er­al ar­eas across Trinidad af­ter a gen­er­a­tion unit tripped yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

Un­cer­tain­ty over the tim­ing of the mid-year bud­get re­view is height­en­ing con­cerns among unions, as a for­mer fi­nance min­is­ter warns of a widen­ing fis­cal deficit and ris­ing in­fla­tion, even as work­ers con­tin­ue to press for long-promised back­pay.

Amal­ga­mat­ed Work­ers’ Union (AWU) pres­i­dent Michael Pren­tice has ac­cused the State of “bla­tant dis­crim­i­na­tion in the worst way,” af­ter claim­ing that Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion work­ers re­main with­out agreed salary in­creas­es and back­pay, de­spite oth­er pub­lic sec­tor groups al­ready re­ceiv­ing their ad­just­ments.

A 92-year-old re­tired nurse and for­mer nurs­ing tu­tor is urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment to recog­nise the val­ue of nurs­es by en­sur­ing they are paid salaries that al­low them to ad­e­quate­ly sup­port their fam­i­lies.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go heads in­to what some of­fi­cials ex­pect to be an ac­tive rainy and hur­ri­cane sea­son, Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment, Khadi­jah Ameen, has launched a month-long na­tion­al pre­pared­ness cam­paign.

A re­tired nurse has won her law­suit against the Of­fice of the Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er over a de­ci­sion to refuse to dis­close de­tails of an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to her daugh­ter’s “mys­te­ri­ous” death that was ruled a sui­cide.