Un­der grey skies and in­ter­mit­tent rain­fall yes­ter­day, work­ers con­tin­ued as­sem­bling the met­al frame­work of a new joint po­lice and army post in Tarou­ba, bring­ing Gov­ern­ment’s lat­est crime-fight­ing ini­tia­tive one step clos­er to re­al­i­ty.

The Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter (OPM) has spent near­ly six months de­cid­ing whether to grant a Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion re­quest for records show­ing how many over­seas trips the Prime Min­is­ter took, who trav­elled with her and the cost it had on tax­pay­ers.

With the in­creased pub­lic use of the word, some­times in a deroga­to­ry man­ner to de­scribe those of East In­di­an de­scent, Guardian Me­dia reached out to SDMS Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Vi­jay Ma­haraj to get the views of the or­gan­i­sa­tion, which is the largest rep­re­sen­ta­tive of Hin­dus in T&T. 

The Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion (OPR) has been asked to look in­to pos­si­ble breach­es of pro­cure­ment re­quire­ments with the re­new­al of in­sur­ance con­tracts by the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) be­tween 2023 and 2025. 

A 73-year-old Guaico Tamana woman, who was re­port­ed miss­ing ear­li­er last week, has been found dead.

His­to­ri­an, Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies lec­tur­er, and ad­vo­cate for so­cial jus­tice, Jerome Teelucks­ingh, fears that racism in Trinidad and To­ba­go has reached a dif­fer­ent lev­el now.

The word “c****e” has moved through his­to­ry over the cen­turies, from colo­nial records de­scrib­ing In­di­an in­den­tured labour­ers to a term that to­day can car­ry deep racial and so­cial of­fence in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Ex­ces­sive noise pol­lu­tion is not mere­ly a nui­sance but a grow­ing pub­lic health cri­sis that con­tributes to frus­tra­tion, con­fronta­tion, and vi­o­lence in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has spent more than a cen­tu­ry mas­ter­ing the busi­ness of en­er­gy. The ques­tion now is whether that ex­per­tise can pow­er the coun­try’s next eco­nom­ic trans­for­ma­tion—or leave it be­hind. Around the world, the race is no longer just to pro­duce clean en­er­gy. It is to man­u­fac­ture the tech­nolo­gies, fu­els and ma­te­ri­als that will de­fine the next in­dus­tri­al econ­o­my. It is well doc­u­ment­ed that T&T has a head­start in this race, not sole­ly be­cause of the in­fra­struc­ture that ex­ists at the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate, but al­so the ex­per­tise that lies in the na­tion’s hu­man cap­i­tal.

The Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty has as­sured that im­pend­ing land­slip and slope sta­bil­i­sa­tion works at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port will not de­lay the open­ing of the new ter­mi­nal in To­ba­go.

A car bomb ex­plod­ed Sat­ur­day in south­west­ern Colom­bia, the army said, a day af­ter con­ser­v­a­tive po­lit­i­cal neo­phyte Abelar­do de la Es­priel­la was sworn in as Colom­bia’s new pres­i­dent.

Jorge Mes­si, the fa­ther of soc­cer star and Ar­genti­na cap­tain Li­onel Mes­si, died Sat­ur­day at a hos­pi­tal in the cen­tral Ar­genti­na city of Rosario. He was 68.