In a show of pa­tri­o­tism, res­i­dents of Palmiste were us­ing the In­de­pen­dence Day hol­i­day, yes­ter­day, to clean Palmiste Park, which has be­come over­grown since the sus­pen­sion of CEPEP, URP, and Re­for­esta­tion pro­grammes.

To­ba­go’s tourism in­dus­try is rid­ing a wave of strong vis­i­tor in­ter­est and high oc­cu­pan­cy lev­els, even as the coun­try con­tin­ues to grap­ple with a State of Emer­gency.

The Par­lia­men­tary Sec­re­tary in the Min­istry of Trade says the Cab­i­net is ac­tive­ly con­sid­er­ing a pro­pos­al to ex­tend the age lim­it for im­port­ed for­eign used ve­hi­cles from three years to eight years.

Three sus­pects were ar­rest­ed over the week­end as of­fi­cers seized a firearm, cannabis, and con­tra­band items dur­ing tar­get­ed an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions in the South­ern Di­vi­sion.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Ernesto Ke­sar says he hopes to see a 100 per cent in­crease in oil and gas sec­tor jobs by next year, and he is urg­ing en­er­gy com­pa­nies to part­ner with trade schools to pro­duce cer­ti­fied pro­fes­sion­als.

“Bul­ly­ing is not mis­chief; it is a form of vi­o­lence, and when this is left unchecked, it be­comes a silent epi­dem­ic that robs chil­dren of their con­fi­dence, their com­mu­ni­ty, and in some cas­es, even their class­rooms,” says Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro.

Act­ing Pris­ons Com­mis­sion­er Hay­den Forde says that art has be­come a “bea­con of light” for the prison ser­vice, of­fer­ing hope in what he de­scribed as a dark pe­ri­od for the in­sti­tu­tion.

An ac­ci­dent while work­ing led to the death of a 42-year-old Char­lieville man on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

French Pres­i­dent Em­manuel Macron’s de­ci­sion to recog­nise a Pales­tin­ian state, prompt­ing sim­i­lar moves from oth­er West­ern na­tions, an­gered Is­rael and its U.S. al­ly by putting a two-state so­lu­tion back at the heart of diplo­mat­ic ef­forts to end the dev­as­tat­ing war in Gaza.

Two Mor­vant men are ex­pect­ed to be ques­tioned and charged af­ter they were held short­ly af­ter break­ing in­to a Curepe bar ear­ly on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the mur­der of a 51-year-old man whose body was found on a mat­tress at his San­gre Grande home ear­ly on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (CCIC) pres­i­dent Bal­dath Ma­haraj has called on TTPost and rel­e­vant gov­ern­ment au­thor­i­ties to act quick­ly to re­solve the tem­po­rary sus­pen­sion of postal ser­vices for mer­chan­dise bound for the Unit­ed States.