Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has dou­bled down on his com­ments that moth­ers are not hold­ing their sons ac­count­able, re­sult­ing in a rise in crime in To­ba­go.

Class­es at the Aranguez North Sec­ondary School were dis­rupt­ed yes­ter­day, as dozens of teach­ers re­fused to work un­der con­di­tions they de­scribed as haz­ardous.

De­spite fish­er­folk re­ceiv­ing the all-clear from Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um to re­turn to sea fol­low­ing an oil spill last Wednes­day, ac­tiv­i­ty at the Fuller­ton Fish­ing Port in Ce­dros re­mained at a stand­still yes­ter­day. 

Af­ter spend­ing al­most two decades in prison, a 55-year-old man from Moru­ga has been freed of mur­der­ing his neigh­bour. 

The Gov­ern­ment has an­nounced a 0.3 per cent in­crease in the un­em­ploy­ment rate in T&T, al­though of­fi­cials as­sert that this fig­ure is not cause for con­cern.

Joint Trade Union Move­ment (JTUM) gen­er­al sec­re­tary Ozzi War­wick is con­tin­u­ing their con­dem­na­tion of the Port Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go for us­ing mil­i­tary per­son­nel at the Port of Port-of-Spain while work­ers protest­ed.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing an in­ci­dent ear­li­er this month at the Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Cross So­ci­ety, where fly­ers call­ing for the re­moval of pres­i­dent Jill De Bourg were plas­tered around the Fitzblack­man Dri­ve, Port-of-Spain com­pound.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) is tak­ing a trade mis­sion to St Vin­cent and the Grenadines. This mis­sion is led by TTMA CEO, Dr Ramesh Ramdeen.

The Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty Cli­mate Change Cen­tre (CC­C­CC) has un­veiled a new lo­go aimed at mark­ing the be­gin­ning of an ex­cit­ing new chap­ter in its jour­ney to strength­en the re­silience of the Caribbean in the face of cli­mate change.

bpTT pres­i­dent David Camp­bell says the seis­mic ac­qui­si­tion for the Man­akin-Cocuina field was com­plet­ed, and the da­ta col­lect­ed is now at the pro­cess­ing stage.

A so­cial ac­tivist has promised to pur­sue lit­i­ga­tion over the dis­clo­sure of al­leged com­mu­ni­ca­tions from Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley, Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds and suc­ces­sive po­lice com­mis­sion­ers over the fast-track­ing of firearm user's li­cence (FUL) ap­pli­ca­tions. 

Nine res­i­dents of the Ja­cob Hill com­mu­ni­ty in Waller­field have re­ceived keys to new homes con­struct­ed by the Land Set­tle­ment Agency (LSA), fol­low­ing their re­lo­ca­tion from state lands des­ig­nat­ed for the con­struc­tion of a com­mu­ni­ty recre­ation fa­cil­i­ty.