An ear­ly morn­ing fire yes­ter­day de­stroyed the old wood­en Min­istry of Health build­ing lo­cat­ed on the site of the for­mer Ch­agua­nas Health Cen­tre, a struc­ture that had stood for more than 50 years.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s re­silience to dis­as­ters de­pends not on­ly on stronger in­fra­struc­ture but al­so on chang­ing the be­hav­iours that con­tin­ue to make com­mu­ni­ties vul­ner­a­ble to flood­ing and oth­er haz­ards.

A High Court judge has re­ject­ed a po­si­tion by the Eco In­dus­tri­al De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny of To­ba­go (E-ID­COT) that it is ex­empt from the Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Act (FOIA).

A Port-of-Spain man was ar­rest­ed af­ter al­leged­ly mak­ing racial­ly of­fen­sive and ob­scene re­marks di­rect­ed at Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Hin­du deities.

The pro­posed Tamana Prison Com­plex re­mains in the pro­cure­ment stage, with Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials con­firm­ing that the project will pro­ceed through an open ten­der process un­der the Pub­lic Pro­cure­ment and Dis­pos­al of Pub­lic Prop­er­ty Act 2015.

Sir Neville Cenac, who served as the is­land’s Gov­er­nor Gen­er­al and For­eign Min­is­ter, died on Tues­day at the age of 86.

Po­lice of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed three peo­ple—two men and one woman—af­ter they blocked what was sup­posed to have been a Peace Walk seek­ing to end gang vi­o­lence in east Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les last night ac­cused un­named in­di­vid­u­als of at­tempt­ing to sup­press the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) can­dle­light vig­il in de­fence of free­dom and democ­ra­cy in San Juan.

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Op­po­si­tion Leader Pene­lope Beck­les all used their Cor­pus Christi mes­sages to urge cit­i­zens to strength­en na­tion­al uni­ty, serve oth­ers and re­flect on the chal­lenges fac­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers’ Union (CWU) Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Joanne Ogeer has de­scribed the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to main­tain re­stric­tions on protests at 15 des­ig­nat­ed lo­ca­tions dur­ing the State of Emer­gency (SOE) as a “gal­lop­ing dic­ta­tor­ship” and is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to re­think the mea­sure.

The Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion (PoSD) has record­ed an in­crease in se­ri­ous crime be­tween Jan­u­ary 1 and June 2, with mur­ders ac­count­ing for the largest in­crease.

Route Two Maxi Taxi As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Bren­ton Knights be­lieves that their two days of “rest and re­lax­ation” sent the mes­sage to the rel­e­vant au­thor­i­ties.